High Fidelity Spatial Audio - Virtual Spaces to Gather + Live Spatial Audio for Apps/Games

@dallas Appreciate your feedback, Dallas! Thank you. Yes -- being able to have water cooler conversations :)

@michael_j_lambie Thank you for the awesome feedback, Michael! So glad you could come and chat with us!

@michael_j_lambie It was great to chat with you, Michael! :)

@zac_duff Thank you for popping in Zac! Those are some great thoughts--don't be surprised if you see some of those making their way into the experience 😉

@hombrelobo Hi, Eduardo! Thank you for your feedback. We want as many people to use our platform as possible on as many devices as possible, even on crappy networks! That being said, adding video has its pros and cons. In High Fidelity audio spaces, it is possible to move around with up to 150 people in a single shared interactive space, and people can hear the murmur of conversations with spatialized audio. We hope you’ll give it a try, and thanks again for your comment!

@hombrelobo @hiyaemilyrose I was wondering about that! I’ve done Remo and the video was a nice feature, but it’s missing the ambient audio. I think it might be nice to have cone of silence rooms with video features if desired, which kind of blends the two experiences.

@geekykidstuff Thank you so much, Christian! It's great to hear that feedback. Would love to see the maps you've created! Tag us on social if you'd like to share (@HighFidelityXR and #hifimap).

@fudzi_keika Thank you! What events do you enjoy hosting in SpatialChat? Thanks for your question about use cases. High Fidelity’s online 3D audio spaces currently support up to 150 people, and we are actively working on scaling to much, much larger crowds. That being said, we hope to enable people hosting very large events such as political rallies, conferences, huge concerts, and much more. Some of the cool use cases we’ve already seen are music festivals, graduation ceremonies, Pride celebrations, academic gatherings, and summer camps. Hopefully you'll give High Fidelity a try for an upcoming event and see how it compares! We'd love to hear how it goes. Thanks again for your feedback!

@hiyaemilyrose Hey Emily, thanks for reply. I host a DJ set and some local dev meetups. Spatial chat constrained by 50 people in the free version, but they have an enterprise solution for a bigger events, afaik. Though for my case 50 was more than enough.

@hiyaemilyrose Btw, can you elaborate on 3D audio? From video I didn't get what it makes it 3D?

@fudzi_keika DJ sets and local dev meetups sound like great use cases. And good question about 3D audio! As you move around in High Fidelity, if you are wearing wired headphones, you will hear the others from the correct direction and distance, just as you would at a physical gathering in real life. For instance, if an avatar is to your right, you will hear them in your right ear. You can move close to someone and whisper in their ear, or move away from others and listen to the murmur of a crowd from afar.

@doomhammer Hi there! Thank you for your question, Piotr. We’re thinking about it. Adding video has its pros and cons — it hinders scalability and devices accessibility which we feel are important. We want people even with slow internet networks or older devices to be able to use our platform. Many early users have reported they enjoy the warm, low-latency 3D audio experience and even prefer it to video (Zoom fatigue and all). But I did want to note: it is currently possible to embed live streams from YouTube or Twitch into an audio space. Check out our Knowledge Base for more info!

@hiyaemilyrose thanks for the detailed answer! Putting user experience above everything else is a wise move. And if users prefer smooth and effortless chat than having video, you should definitely go that way. I imagine it to be much lighter on resources and bandwidth as well!

@doomhammer Thank you, Piotr!

@lorenzo_vallone Thank you so much, Lorenzo!