Meta seems to have trouble motivating the developers who actually develop Horizon worlds to use it. I would expect at least some of them to do the alpha/beta testing of the new device.
I would expect that it takes more than 6 months to get to the point where the product is good enough to be superior to 1-on-1 meetings.
vrchat is already everything horizon worlds wishes it was. including popular. it’s not going to be used for meetings, but if you want to see what it can really be like, do come try vrchat, we’ve already basically got it; it’s just a bit uncomfy for practical use for many people still, jim is betting that will change because it’s in the process of doing so. transhumanists in vr meets friday at 6pm pacific for game night and saturday 6pm pacific for discussion night; it’s one of several tech nerds communities, there’s also eavr (https://www.eavr.org/diving-into), stemvr (https://vreventhub.com/), improv vr (https://gobsimprovemporium.com/), and a hell of a lot of dance clubs (find some on vreventhub). and oh man, those are some dance clubs. anyway, here’s a documentary video if you’re into that sort of thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PHT-zBxKQQ
vrchat is free and works on pc-desktop, or pc-vr, or oculus quest. runs on windows or steam’s builtin wine on linux-desktop. it’s a better meeting environment than gather.town or discord calls even just in desktop
something I think particularly cool about vrchat is there’s lots of room for many events from the same community, and in my view, communities can have smoother friendship knitting than is easy irl or online because of the emotional communication effect of distance and head turn to indicate vocal connection and yet having teleportation available and unlimited amounts of space. it allows a smoother mix of spreading out into 3d spatialized volumes, and hopping worlds if you need to be with a different group for a while. if you make any effort at all to connect to multiple groups, you’ll find yourself connected to a weird mix of people; if you retain interest in the link they provide to the variety of activities on vrchat, you can connect with all sorts of folks. there’s still a filter in what sorts of people you’ll encounter on vrc, but it’s a pretty wide filter.
Meta seems to have trouble motivating the developers who actually develop Horizon worlds to use it. I would expect at least some of them to do the alpha/beta testing of the new device.
I would expect that it takes more than 6 months to get to the point where the product is good enough to be superior to 1-on-1 meetings.
vrchat is already everything horizon worlds wishes it was. including popular. it’s not going to be used for meetings, but if you want to see what it can really be like, do come try vrchat, we’ve already basically got it; it’s just a bit uncomfy for practical use for many people still, jim is betting that will change because it’s in the process of doing so. transhumanists in vr meets friday at 6pm pacific for game night and saturday 6pm pacific for discussion night; it’s one of several tech nerds communities, there’s also eavr (https://www.eavr.org/diving-into), stemvr (https://vreventhub.com/), improv vr (https://gobsimprovemporium.com/), and a hell of a lot of dance clubs (find some on vreventhub). and oh man, those are some dance clubs. anyway, here’s a documentary video if you’re into that sort of thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PHT-zBxKQQ
vrchat is free and works on pc-desktop, or pc-vr, or oculus quest. runs on windows or steam’s builtin wine on linux-desktop. it’s a better meeting environment than gather.town or discord calls even just in desktop
something I think particularly cool about vrchat is there’s lots of room for many events from the same community, and in my view, communities can have smoother friendship knitting than is easy irl or online because of the emotional communication effect of distance and head turn to indicate vocal connection and yet having teleportation available and unlimited amounts of space. it allows a smoother mix of spreading out into 3d spatialized volumes, and hopping worlds if you need to be with a different group for a while. if you make any effort at all to connect to multiple groups, you’ll find yourself connected to a weird mix of people; if you retain interest in the link they provide to the variety of activities on vrchat, you can connect with all sorts of folks. there’s still a filter in what sorts of people you’ll encounter on vrc, but it’s a pretty wide filter.
I don’t think that’s a good indicator, the same way that beverage executives don’t buy their kids soda and tobacco lobbyists don’t smoke.
Soda/tabacco don’t provide clearly better experiences. They don’t exist to have a better meeting experience.