There's always Second Life
Or the open source equivalent, Open Simulator.
Partying over Internet: Technological Aspects
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#12https://catch.social We've been building this ;) will launch soon.
Your form didn't work for me :(
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#13I've been thinking about this too. In fact I've started hacking on an app to solve this for my group of friends. To me the two primary issues are:
1. Sub groups without losing the context of the full group. I want to focus on a set of people and chat with them while also aware of what other groups are around. I want to be able to bring people into these groups at will. This also adds a gamification aspect where you can adjust groups, i.e. randomly mix, mix people who haven't talked to each other yet etc.
2. Multi monitor. I want to see everyone and real estate is limited on a single screen. I should be able to add multiple windows or computers to my chat and have everyone spread across those windows. Only one window / computer will submit video and audio for me though.
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#14We’ve been running “dial up dance parties” in Phoenix for the last few weeks. A DJ streams music to a zoom hangout, and people dance in front of their camera. The magic bit is that there is a new curation job beyond djing: curating who is be “spotlighted” at the current time. So my and my wife’s job (we have been organizing and promoting these parties) is to watch all of the participants and pick out who should get s…
Cool idea! I am fascinated that this is growing. I wouldn't have guessed so in the first place. Is there interaction happening between the participants? > every time we do it we know fewer of the people who show up. This sounds like the retention rate is low, or is this a wrong conclusion? Also I would be interested to learn for whom this is fun, and why.
> This sounds like the retention rate is low, or is this a wrong conclusion?
I think they mean that the percentage of their close friends goes down each time, as more people are invited. Network effect.
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#15TurnTable Live was out briefly (after TurnTable.fm closed).
I always thought it had a really cool party atmosphere for concerts. Here's a video of a concert that I took. No audio, unfortunately.
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#16We’ve been running “dial up dance parties” in Phoenix for the last few weeks. A DJ streams music to a zoom hangout, and people dance in front of their camera. The magic bit is that there is a new curation job beyond djing: curating who is be “spotlighted” at the current time. So my and my wife’s job (we have been organizing and promoting these parties) is to watch all of the participants and pick out who should get s…
Cool idea! I am fascinated that this is growing. I wouldn't have guessed so in the first place. Is there interaction happening between the participants? > every time we do it we know fewer of the people who show up. This sounds like the retention rate is low, or is this a wrong conclusion? Also I would be interested to learn for whom this is fun, and why.
It means that every time we do it the network grows. It started with our friends, and now it’s our friends and their friends, and their friends and so on.
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#17Zoom's gallery view and pin video solves some of the problems with Hangouts discussed in the article. I like the idea of somehow building cabaceo into the app, although I think something simpler might be preferable (E.g. right-click on person, request to create breakout room.) I think Zoom kind of has this but it seems like only hosts can create break-out rooms, and they have to turn it on or something.
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#18https://catch.social We've been building this ;) will launch soon.
Your form didn't work for me :(
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#19I've been thinking about this too. In fact I've started hacking on an app to solve this for my group of friends. To me the two primary issues are: 1. Sub groups without losing the context of the full group. I want to focus on a set of people and chat with them while also aware of what other groups are around. I want to be able to bring people into these groups at will. This also adds a gamification aspect where you c…
There was a jit.si post on here where someone made a 2d map. If you were standing close to them on the map you heard the if voice. Further away people were ignored.
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#20I've been thinking about this too. In fact I've started hacking on an app to solve this for my group of friends. To me the two primary issues are: 1. Sub groups without losing the context of the full group. I want to focus on a set of people and chat with them while also aware of what other groups are around. I want to be able to bring people into these groups at will. This also adds a gamification aspect where you c…
There was a jit.si post on here where someone made a 2d map. If you were standing close to them on the map you heard the if voice. Further away people were ignored.
If I remember right there was an app from the early 2000s that did something kind of like this. It would be cool to combine the 2D map with a speech-to-text word cloud over clusters of people so you could see if you wanted to join another conversation.