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Learning the different platforms #2

Open tynes opened 4 years ago

tynes commented 4 years ago

Different Platforms

We are looking for a platform to create experiences on. There are a lot of different virtual worlds with different tradeoffs.

Web based VR platforms have performance issues but are easier to access. In the future there should be cloud gaming services that help to fix the performance issues.

Altspace

Pros

works on the widest number of VR headsets (and Windows PCs)
good moderator tools for events
Supports large groups (50+)

Cons

not open source

Decentraland

Pros

Open source, permissively licensed
Works in a web browser
Can run our own server

Cons

No VR headset support (yet)
Some performance issues
Requires Metamask, very focused on the marketplace
No audio support (yet) so need to use with Discord/Zoom/whatever

VRChat

Pros

Full time company developing the platform
Developer tools
Memey
Great avatar selection

Cons

Closed source
Doesn't work on some VR headsets, only partial support on others

Mozilla Hubs

Pros

Open source
Can run our own server
Works on basically every device, including phones and VR headsets
Good for streaming content

Cons

We couldn't get it to work in VR in our testing
Performance issues supporting > ~10 ppl in a space, hard limit at ~40

Cryptovoxels

A web based VR world based on Ethereum.

Pros

Cons

tynes commented 4 years ago

This should eventually go in a wiki, but we discuss this each call so I'm going to try to scribe as this topic comes up.