{"id":3263,"date":"2016-07-01T08:58:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2023-06-14T16:46:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T00:46:03","slug":"gear-vr-review-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=3263","title":{"rendered":"Gear VR Review Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AltspaceVR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am familiar with AltspaceVR from a desktop version. I attended a couple comedy shows in the desktop and really enjoyed the spatialization of the audio although when somebody next to you is laughing really loud it&#8217;s sometimes hard to hear the talent. I think we need a plug-in or some way of disabling spatialization when there&#8217;s a performance so that the performers audio feed is sent directly to each headset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another thing that is a sort of frustrating is that I don&#8217;t always have my headphones that have a microphone. When you are in a Hangout or Welcome Space and someone comes up to talk to you, you can&#8217;t tell him or her that you can&#8217;t speak. I wish there was a text function with generic phrases that I could send them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing that was fun in the Welcome Space was a globe that showed where everyone was from that is in the room at that time. You can also access a menu that shows you everyone that is in Altspace and what room they are in. So if you meet someone one time, you can find him or her again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/altspace-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3264\" width=\"674\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/altspace-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/altspace-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/altspace-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/altspace.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to check out the Tumblr Gallery. This is pretty cool because you can curate your own gallery presentation. The space itself has some interesting spatial audio treats. There is a fireplace with the sound of the fire and it&#8217;s localized in that it fades away when you walk away. There was another person in the room that asked me if I could hear the clock ticking when near a particular image. I did hear it, but we couldn&#8217;t figure out where the source was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are lots of other treats like this. In the &#8220;Let&#8217;s Hang Out&#8221; room, if you go over to one corner by the couch you hear the buzz of the lamp. In the jungle maze, there is a location recording of jungle sounds and crickets that was pretty cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In general Altspace is really fun and a great way to meet new people and they have special events all the time. Very fun app and the Gear makes it even more fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AltspaceVR I am familiar with AltspaceVR from a desktop version. I attended a couple comedy shows in the desktop and really enjoyed the spatialization of the audio although when somebody next to you is laughing really loud it&#8217;s sometimes hard to hear the talent. I think we need a plug-in or some way of disabling &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=3263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gear VR Review Day 4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8564,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/8564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}