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Some things are just not fun online. Not everything is about efficiency, sometimes people just want to be around other people who are interested in similar thin

Some things are just not fun online. Not everything is about efficiency, sometimes people just want to be around other people who are interested in similar things :) For example, nobody says hm, I wonder how we solve night clubs, but online. Although it could be that type of unusual thought that leads to something interesting :)

fragmede 6y ago
It's not safe right now to be inside, with a large crowd of people, doing strenuous physical activity. So; online, it goes. It's not a question of efficiency, but the entertainment industry serves a myriad of customer needs, and for those still stuck sheltering-in-place and meeting up with friends online, the question of how to have a better online night club experience comes up every weekend. Zoom's shortcomings become more and more glaring as time goes on. We all know it's not a substitute for in person interaction, but what can be done to make it suck less. Ideally, there's even a way to use the Internet to enhance the experience! It might be possible to optimize latency for attendees to a digital event to those within, say, the same 10-mile radius than Zoom currently uses. That's not a use case that remote video conferencing is typically optimized for. Better speakers and video would also improve the experience compared to a laptop. Then there's the music itself that gets played. The current challenge is that DJs moved to Twitch as the world moved online. It's pretty much the perfect platform except for one fatal flaw - Twitch isn't licensed for music online like a bar/club is. There's no online equivalent of the venue paying the yearly ASCAP license fee. So mixes come down as takedown notices are issued, since the music the DJs are playing are unlicensed. Many DJs are thus trying to find a new platform, possibly Mixcloud or Soundcloud. They have their own shortcomings, however.
vertex-four 6y ago
> For example, nobody says hm, I wonder how we solve night clubs, but online. Sure they do, that's a not-insignificant part of VRChat. :p

fragmede 6y ago

It's not safe right now to be inside, with a large crowd of people, doing strenuous physical activity. So; online, it goes. It's not a question of efficiency, but the entertainment industry serves a myriad of customer needs, and for those still stuck sheltering-in-place and meeting up with friends online, the question of how to have a better online night club experience comes up every weekend. Zoom's shortcomings become more and more glaring as time goes on. We all know it's not a substitute for in person interaction, but what can be done to make it suck less. Ideally, there's even a way to use the Internet to enhance the experience! It might be possible to optimize latency for attendees to a digital event to those within, say, the same 10-mile radius than Zoom currently uses. That's not a use case that remote video conferencing is typically optimized for. Better speakers and video would also improve the experience compared to a laptop. Then there's the music itself that gets played. The current challenge is that DJs moved to Twitch as the world moved online. It's pretty much the perfect platform except for one fatal flaw - Twitch isn't licensed for music online like a bar/club is. There's no online equivalent of the venue paying the yearly ASCAP license fee. So mixes come down as takedown notices are issued, since the music the DJs are playing are unlicensed. Many DJs are thus trying to find a new platform, possibly Mixcloud or Soundcloud. They have their own shortcomings, however.

vertex-four 6y ago

> For example, nobody says hm, I wonder how we solve night clubs, but online. Sure they do, that's a not-insignificant part of VRChat. :p