Nick Ochoa is a co-founder of UploadVR, and he was recently at the VRX Virtual Reality Intelligence conference hosting a panel on social VR. Nick talks about of his open questions about social VR such as what does it mean to be a social VR app, and where is social VR going when there could hundreds of applications that have a social aspect to them. He’s found some of the lightweight social VR experiences like Oculus Social Alpha to be some of the most compelling, but that there hasn’t been an experience that he feels really motivated to have with his friends yet beyond sharing some entertainment of movie experiences together. He talks about the importance of audio in social VR, as well as how avatars are used as well as whether the experience will be hosted on a private servers or be open and distributed on the open web like an approach that High Fidelity and JanusVR are taking. Finally, he sees that part of the ultimate potential of virtual reality is to be able to cultivate experiences of empathy, and he highly recommends checking out the work of Chris Milk and VRSE in that realm.
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