Prismic: A federated social VR sandbox using ActivityPub. (codeberg.org)
from poVoq@slrpnk.net to fediverse@lemmy.ml on 04 Feb 2024 22:56
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hashferret@lemmy.world on 04 Feb 2024 23:28 next collapse

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@slrpnk.net on 04 Feb 2024 23:33 collapse

You are aware of vircadia.com ?

It is also somewhat distributed, although not via ActivityPub.

hashferret@lemmy.world on 04 Feb 2024 23:38 collapse

Yeah. Though I’m more partial to the offshoot pr 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@slrpnk.net on 04 Feb 2024 23:59 collapse

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

Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz on 04 Feb 2024 23:41 next collapse

Is there any footage of what it looks like?

ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 05 Feb 2024 04:38 collapse

From the link:

Prismic is still early in development and not yet in a usable state. Most of the features described below are planned but not yet or only partially implemented.

I don’t think it looks like anything, yet.

Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz on 05 Feb 2024 15:36 collapse

Oh the description was using the present tense so I thought it was already made rather than just an idea.

Butterbee@beehaw.org on 05 Feb 2024 17:32 collapse

It’s a cool idea. I hope they get somewhere with it