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/ [6]). > 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, >> >> Last week we heard from approximately 40 people (including a number of >> private emails). >> I just send a fresh renewal message and will do this for the next 2 >> weekends. >> >> It's fascinating to learn more about the lives, thought and work being done >> by old comrades, and list lurkers and to hear about how they relate to this >> social space and the work of dedicated contributors :) >> >> 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 [2]). >> >> 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 >> >> -- >> >> Ruth Catlow >> she/her >> Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts >> Lab >> +44 (0) 77370 02879 >> >> *I will only agree to speak at events that are racially and gender balanced. >> >> **sending thanks [3] in advance >> >> FURTHERFIELD disrupts and democratises art and technology through >> exhibitions, labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free >> thinking. >> furtherfield.org [4] >> >> DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab is an arts, blockchain & web 3.0 technologies >> research hub >> >> for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now. >> >> decal.is [5] >> >> Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company Limited by Guarantee >> >> Registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. >> >> Registered business address: Carbon Accountancy, 80-83 Long Lane, London, >> EC1A 9ET. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour [1] > > -- > > helen varley jamieson > > he...@creative-catalyst.com > http://www.creative-catalyst.com [7] > http://www.upstage.org.nz [8] > https://mobilise-demobilise.eu [9] > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour [1] Links: ------ [1] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour [2] https://stream.undersco.re/ [3] https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsroom/press-releases/2019/november/think-before-you-thank-if-every-brit-sent-one-less-thank-you-email-a-day-we-would-save-16433-tonnes-of-carbon-a-year-the-same-as-81152-flights-to-madrid.html [4] http://www.furtherfield.org/ [5] http://www.decal.is [6] https://onlinefestival.themagdalenaproject.org/works-in-progress/ [7] http://www.creative-catalyst.com [8] http://www.upstage.org.nz [9] https://mobilise-demobilise.eu/
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