[NetBehaviour] All the stuff and a VR get together

[Edward Picot]

I love The Endless Forest!

On 19/06/2021 18:52, F3ydrus via NetBehaviour wrote:
> Thumbs up for accessible non-facetime non-VR online spaces like 
> gather.town; Calla is another interesting one which uses spatial audio 
> and a 2D map and is open source.
>
> Bit off topic (though on list), but I can't help also mention the 
> beautiful /The Endless Forest/ by Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn of 
> Tale of Tales (who are probably lurking on NB!). Seems particularly 
> apt given the forest analogy. After a kickstarter a few years ago 
> they've been rewriting it on a new engine, now up to v3.4
>
> /"//*The Endless Forest* is a multiplayer online game and social 
> screensaver, a virtual place where you can play with your friends. 
> When your computer goes to sleep you appear as a deer in this magical 
> place. There are no goals to achieve or rules to follow. Just run 
> through the forest and see what happens."/
>
> Like /Journey/, TEF has no means of text or audio communication. Just 
> a silent contemplative space with some avatar gestures and movement 
> around the forest. Magical.
>
> A x
>
> On 19.06.2021 18:07, Helen Varley Jamieson wrote:
>
>> we are using gather.town and ohyay as well as zoom for the 
>> Bodies:On:Live festival next week, which suzon posted about earlier 
>> today. both of these platforms are quite easy to use, not VR or 3D so 
>> no special equipment required, & they allow various other things like 
>> avatars as well as audio-video.
>>
>> and of course we're using UpStage as well - sneak previews of the new 
>> platform that will be launched in october 
>> (https://onlinefestival.themagdalenaproject.org/works-in-progress/). 
>> UpStage is a cyberformance venue rather than a social meeting space, 
>> but lots of fun meetings happen there too. you can give your face a 
>> rest or make it appear in the floating shape of your choice ...
>>
>> h : )
>>
>> On 19.06.21 13:31, Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote:
>>> Hiya,
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>>> I'd really enjoy meeting in a VR setting Mez - nice call! I agree 
>>> with Alan and Paul that it would make sense to choose a place where 
>>> people can join with either monitors or goggles.
>>> I  am late to the "VR party" but recently started playing with 
>>> VRChat (a highly programmable VR space) with friend and collaborator 
>>> Cade Diehm (of the Para-real series <https://stream.undersco.re/  >).
>>> I hear you Paul in your desire to see people's faces and at the same 
>>> time one of the things I really enjoy about VR, after a pandemic 
>>> year in jitsi/zoom/teams is the freedom to give my face a rest. Also 
>>> the ability to escape the world of heads floating in rectangles to 
>>> play with the virtual physics of social space.
>>> Look forward to seeing what happens :)
>>>
>>> Warmly
>>> Ruth
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>> helen varley jamieson
>>
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>> http://www.upstage.org.nz
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