This is one of those ideas that just found its time. I was by no means the first to make a spatialized audio chat system. I might have been very close to the fi

This is one of those ideas that just found its time. I was by no means the first to make a spatialized audio chat system. I might have been very close to the first to release something after the start of the pandemic, but it's also not even the first time I've built spatialized audio chat into a system. My first experience with spatialized audio in a chat system was AltspaceVR, when I first got into working in the VR space, when they interviewed me for a job (sadly, they didn't understand their own product enough and insisted that I'd have to move coasts to work with them). That was easily 6 years ago. A couple of years later, I built my own VR-based spatialized chat system. It was way too early. WebVR was way too much friction for users[0]. Incidentally, Calla has all the necessary parts to be usable in a VR system. And I'm using it for that in my day job (VR environments for roleplay scenarios in learning foreign languages). I don't remember why exactly I open sourced this project. It just seemed like the thing to do. I guess I hoped that other developers would find it useful and contribute bug fixes. That largely hasn't happened, so I'm mostly just focused on building the day job project for now. Once I get the next milestone done, I'll consider working on more features for Calla, but for now I need to pay the bills. [0] WebXR today still kind of is, but it's a lot better than it used to be and I think some clever design in UX with something akin to 2-factor auth can help get around it.