>>295823203
I visited an XR developer meetup in AltspaceVR and I think events on that platform might be more fruitful for meeting a bit older crowds. Everybody is a boring male, female or robot avatar so no coomers allowed either.

Agenda was:
-Zoan: Producing a virtual live concert experience with Unreal Engine.
-Waseda University: Making use of avatars and embodiment in VR
-Grape People: When, and how, will meetings move into VR? Benefits and blockers.

The virtual live concert was kind of lame browser or mobile thing with no VR but they had a live crowd of thousands with zero expectation of users having any clue on VR. Was kind of cool that corporations are exploring this.

Avatars and embodiment was about how to make things more immersive. Apparently 1-to-1 body tracking is more important than looks for people to feel connected to their virtual bodies. Also proteus effect israel.

VR meetings is just corporate VRChat. They complained that the best headset for this is owned by Facebook. They also thought that facebook will take over this space. Also who the fuck names their company "Grape People"? All I could think of was the Grape bit from Whitest Kids You Know.

I asked the avatars and embodiment dude about phantom touch and it's apparently called "pseudo haptic illusion".

Had to really hold back to hide my power level. One of the organizers wanted to test out features and asked if it was ok to block me to try it out. He couldn't unblock me for some reason so I just acted obnoxious and talked with people ignoring his unseen presence basically blocking him out of conversation.