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Should the Forum Move to Horizon?

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
A general question following some recent email, but I thought it may be interesting to hear the responses from the members here, on what the feeling about moving the forum to VR?

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https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959
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hoppingbunny123
Rising Star
idc, im a old man and its all a young mans world imo.. if some kid makes it work i would be surprised and happy he got it right. otherwise as a failed programmer i will grin as i watch the flailing and the forum die. shabby work and pie in the sky dreams are things i used to do too. but hey if the kid gets it right awesome im in!

nalex66
MVP
MVP
Horizon and forums are two quite different things. Horizon may turn out to be a great way to socialize and hang out with VR friends, but it doesn’t replace the function of this forum as an archive of shared information, opinion, and support. Many people’s first visit here is to find out more about VR, or to deal with problems getting started. A social space that requires you to already be in VR can’t really serve those needs.

Personally, my time spent on the forum is when I can’t be in VR; in a browser on my PC while I’m at work, or on my iPad while I’m sitting on the couch watching TV with my family.

DK2, CV1, Go, Quest, Quest 2, Quest 3.


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kevinw729
Honored Visionary

nalex66 said:

Horizon and forums are two quite different things. Horizon may turn out to be a great way to socialize and hang out with VR friends, but it doesn’t replace the function of this forum as an archive of shared information, opinion, and support. Many people’s first visit here is to find out more about VR, or to deal with problems getting started. A social space that requires you to already be in VR can’t really serve those needs.

Personally, my time spent on the forum is when I can’t be in VR; in a browser on my PC while I’m at work, or on my iPad while I’m sitting on the couch watching TV with my family.



Thanks for that observation.
Funny I had the platform (Horizon) explained to me as a place for social interaction "very much like what you do in a forum" - and that "...we envisage it to be a social interchange point for many things, and will mean traditional discussion boards will be rendered obsolete." [paraphrased]. 

I like your point of the forum is what you do when you are not in VR.
Will be interesting what the others feel.
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

hoppingbunny123
Rising Star
i learned a lesson on why some people talk and some stay quiet. people talk to murmur and think of their stuff. there's always a bad guy to talk about being the robin hood that will take their stuff and is murmured about and despised, look at cnn for an example.

so if we all have to talk we have to be rich enough and well taken care enough to be like minded and have political motivations to find the boogie man to murmur about and count all our coins and cookies.

but, some of us are dirt poor, and are fatherless who nobody cared about growing up and were despised and so have a hard time opening up and talking like cnn does. forums help more than talking face to face for these sad souls the outcasts of life who live as poor and sad and despised. i might be one of them.

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
Sorry @hoppingbunny123 - what has this to do with the OP?
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

hoppingbunny123
Rising Star
the horizon is a social meeting spot where we all sit and chat like a gang of old ladies using voice isnt it, if not im sorry i thought thats what it was. i dont want voip calls to strangers in some hidden facebook internet meeting spot.

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
Oh, okay - not sure I would say that, this may be based off the well intentioned but divisive marketing video.
It is much more like a mix of Rec Room, with annexes dedicated towards topics, creativity and also the ability for family and friend interchange (streaming, discussing, etc.,)
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

Digikid1
Consultant
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nalex66
MVP
MVP

kevinw729 said:


nalex66 said:

Horizon and forums are two quite different things. Horizon may turn out to be a great way to socialize and hang out with VR friends, but it doesn’t replace the function of this forum as an archive of shared information, opinion, and support. Many people’s first visit here is to find out more about VR, or to deal with problems getting started. A social space that requires you to already be in VR can’t really serve those needs.

Personally, my time spent on the forum is when I can’t be in VR; in a browser on my PC while I’m at work, or on my iPad while I’m sitting on the couch watching TV with my family.



Thanks for that observation.
Funny I had the platform (Horizon) explained to me as a place for social interaction "very much like what you do in a forum" - and that "...we envisage it to be a social interchange point for many things, and will mean traditional discussion boards will be rendered obsolete." [paraphrased]. 

I like your point of the forum is what you do when you are not in VR.
Will be interesting what the others feel.


Like I said, it may be a great way to socialize; I’ve enjoyed hanging out and chatting with some forum members in multiplayer VR games and social spaces. It’s more immediate, but also more limited, because you only meet the people who are online at the same time, and having a virtual face-to-face conversation doesn’t leave a written record for others to read and add to. 

What I enjoy about the forum is that we can have ongoing discussions with people all over the world from all walks of life. The fact that it doesn’t happen in real time means that people can make thoughtful contributions in their own time, complete with links to supporting content, and it remains available for the benefit of anyone who comes along later looking for similar information.

I think Horizon (or any VR social hub) can be a great addition to our VR community, but I don’t think it will make more traditional web forums obsolete.

DK2, CV1, Go, Quest, Quest 2, Quest 3.


Try my game: Cyclops Island Demo