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[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Really exciting to see someone working on this. Though my immediate reaction is - not skepticism. Concern maybe? Similar projects in the past have hit walls in scope creep, lack of funding, and ocassionally lack of direction or differentiation. A truly well rounded social VR platform is far more complex than meets the eye. Even neosvr/resonite has run into large slowdowns and difficulties in stealing public adoption away from the totally centralized and closed behemoth that is vrchat. More recently I was sad to see Thirdroom (based on matrix) abandon development. Still, all the best to the project and I will definitely follow it closely.

[–] poVoq 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You are aware of https://vircadia.com/ ?

It is also somewhat distributed, although not via ActivityPub.

[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. Though I'm more partial to the offshoot project https://overte.org/ Unfortunately though I think it's another example of how far these sorts of projects are from feature parity with more established closed platforms.

[–] poVoq 3 points 9 months ago

Ah, that looks interesting as well. How exactly is it an "offshoot" of Vircadia? The Overte website isn't clear on this.