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Thanks for yours comments/questions. Peter Thiel in Zero to One asks "What Do You Know Is True That No One Else Agrees Upon?" Actually facebook et al. only im
by joak 11y ago
Thanks for yours comments/questions.
Peter Thiel in Zero to One asks "What Do You Know Is True That No One Else Agrees Upon?"
Actually facebook et al. only imagine SocialVR with rooms. But rooms are a fiasco.
Do you remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lively https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lively ?
The hype on Second Life was high and google decided to enter the social VW arena. In google lively, you could spawn a new room for free, 20 users max per room. It end up with thousands of empty rooms and a bunch of full ones with everyone trying to enter those already full. It was a total failure, stopped after few months.
Every SL user know how it works: you spend a lot of time and energy organising an event, sending invitations, preparing new content, etc... Hopefully people start arriving and then you have fifty attendees and things start lagging and you need to repel new people arriving. There are maybe thousands willing to attend but no avail you will only get <100.
DiveReal have no "rooms", only one contiguous space that never gets too crowded. This makes a huge difference.
Facebook don't know that. They do not understand that with multiuser rooms they are going to have many empty rooms and few overcrowded.
But I agree with you: DiveReal has to be open to all devices. I just started with Oculus Rift because they were more developer friendly than alternatives.