Friday, October 14, 2022
FEATURE SUGGESTIONS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SITES
META HORIZON WORLDS are looking for suggestions for how HW should evolve. I posted on their site a list of suggestions. I've been a member since almost the beginning, but I have not used it much because it is missing some features I need. I have responded before in a similar way, but as HW has evolved and improved, many of my hoped-for features are still not available.
Many of these features are lacking on all other Social Sites as well. So I decided to post a list here of what I would like every (or one!) Social Site to provide for developers and creators.
(One thing I do not want a site to include is digital real-estate plots. There are several Crypto focused sites with some nice features, but I will not pay to create content.)
HOPED FOR FEATURES:
1) Clear rules (eg TOU) that CREATORS maintain ALL IP while
providing a limited permission to the SITE to display & promote &
monetize the content.
2) Fair split of revenue to creator.
3) Powerful tools for creation including
a) Importing text, audio, XR video,
graphics, textures, 3D models, scripts, etc.
b) Generous limits on capacity of
assets
c) Ability to use "standard"
scripting models (like Unreal, Unity, Babylon) to build content
d) Ability for Indie creators to interact in live 3D (and Broadcast in live 3D VR to large audiences)
e) Ability to create Live Performance
(theater, LPXR) and 3D VR films, live seminars and classes.
* Allow
the removal of the name from avatars.
* Allow one
or more 3D 360 cameras as scripted elements.
* Allow dynamically
rigged avatars with remote (live action capture) and scripted control.
* Allow
easy costume (avatar) changes; scenery (Room design) changes.
* Allow
dynamic importing and dynamic creation of assets, including 2D & 3D video, writing
on a whiteboard, and other creative functions (such as demonstrating within the
Site how to create objects and scripts for the Site).
f) Avatars with legs;
importable avatars; dynamically rigged avatars; a method for enabling “resting”
avatars’ hands to be comfortably and elegantly located when just sitting and
not using the hands (a particular issue with controllers).
4) Access for Indie Creator/Developers to pitch for
development investments and funds.
5) Large number of simultaneous users of a Room (or World;
or Local Site; or Game; or whatever a unit is called). And when the Room is
full, some communication between the creator and new (unable to enter the
original location) users. (This is particularly important to manage
over-flowing events).
6) Backward compatibility, careful pre-release bug
double-checking, and constantly updated documentation in a reliably located
URL, to allow stability and continuity as the platform evolves.
7) Easy access to ALL Rooms through portals and doors branching
from a Central Place (“Central Place” = where users normally enter) and from an
easily searchable directory. Also, ability to directly enter a particular Room
from outside the Site. (Especially important for events.)
8) Easy and fast sign-in for new visitors coming to an event
at the Site (including checking “tickets” if reservations are needed).
Labels: Live Performance in XR, LPXR, Social Media Sites, XRography
THE MURDER (an XR performance project!)
Help!
We're producing a quick
staged-reading
immersive-performance
LPXR (Live Performance in XR)
XR video
of a new play, The Murder, that Shakespeare wrote (with some collaborators) about current issues.
It's an experimental, zero-budget, no-pay-no-fee, not union, test of creation in XR, to be done immediately.
We're looking for
CAST
Leads: One man, One woman
Supporting: The audience - watching from within the performance space; some will be discussing the play and its relation to current issues with the leads, live & improvised (with a little structure).
CREW/OTHERS:
Anyone who'd like to experience and experiment with the latest in-XR possibilities for media content development, including, for example, avatar-costumers, producers, XR-set-designers, etc...
Anyone and everyone participating MUST have a QUEST2 (or compatible) headset, and have access to and experience with Horizon Worlds and, perhaps, other XR Social media spaces like HUBS, VRChat, and Altspace, and MUST have lots of available time during the next few weeks.
To participate, please write to
with a cover letter describing
1) Your interest
2) Your experience with XR (see paragraph above).
3) Your other relevant experience (Shakespearean acting, or creating avatars, or producing film/video, or anything else that might be helpful).
Cast (or anyone) should also send a resume and headshot (cast!), but the letter is the MOST important.
Auditions and meetings and rehearsals will most likely take place in Horizon Worlds, (in avatars), starting within a few days. The location, for the performance and for creating the video, will be in avatars in a Social Media space, probably in the next two weeks.
Labels: avatars, eXtended Reality, film, Live Performance in XR, LPXR, Polonsky Shakespeare Center, theater, XR
