Partying over Internet: Technological Aspects
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#2A lot of in-person interaction for groups is just not possible with most (all?) conferencing solutions, e.g., sidebar discussions. Some of this can be handled through texts (which are an occasional solution in in-person meetings as well—in grad school, I was occasionally in group texts mocking the person speaking to our class), although there's the danger that messages might pop up inopportunely while screen sharing (this happened to a co-worker of my wife's during a presentation once).
And of course, there's always this: "Leaving your mic on is the new reply-all."
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#3I enjoyed this a lot! It identified a problem and explored a couple of aspects of the solution. It's really fun to think about designing such a product.
Even though there seem to be some technical roadblocks in the way, I would love to use an app like this!
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#4We’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 spotlighted.
It’s been a LOT of fun and has been growing quickly. Our last party had about 40 people in it and every time we do it we know fewer of the people who show up.
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#5Consider using avatar chat, which has been shown to be able to deliver social presence, esp w VR.
https://extendedmind.io/blog/2020/3/20/video-conferencing-wo...
Example of a house party thrown in hubs: https://www.facebook.com/1365390312/posts/10216647011272117/...
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#6A party app to fight the virus. https://ba.net/screen-share-party
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#7There's always Second Life
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#8We’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.
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#9https://catch.social
We've been building this ;) will launch soon.
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#10Zoom'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.