So in all this facebook kerfluffle Second Life creator Philip Rosedale used the news buzz as an opportunity to make mention of his VR social platform High Fidelity. I found a video via venturebeat that showed a prototype experiment that seemed to utilize a combination of head tracking, hydra motion controls for arm gestures, and some fairly impressive lip synching to display two people having a virtual conversation together. Check it out below.
It's a bit rough around the edges but you get the gist and can see the potential for a VR social experience. Via the above video I found a talk Rosedale did last year describing a rough idea of their plan for the platform which I found to be quite exciting as to its potential for VR. In particular he mentions using people's mobile devices and/or PCs as basically outsourcing server load when they're not using the service as a way to power the network, which would obviously mitigate a lot of the problems with latency inherent with online services. Granted this project is probably still in the early stages of production but I think people like Rosedale are on the right track for integrating social into VR, and I wouldn't at all be surprised if Facebook aped some of their ideas for their own VR social platform if they choose to go that route (and why wouldn't they). You can watch his talk below, certainly some interesting ideas in there.
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mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4123 I am looking into that LEEP VR I lack practical 3d knowledge, I have found some good links, but I am not sure if they are the ones you were talking about. Would you mind direct linking me to them? :oops:
