I met the crew from AltspaceVR inside a virtual space station. We chatted briefly, moving around the room, playing with some glow sticks that had been left out for our entertainment. Then I moved off to the side, and watched as my avatar reappeared at our starting location. I could hear myself talking, and follow my steps. I watched as beta-Ben repeated the last five minutes of my life.
This time-traveling adventure was a demo of the new VR capture-and-replay feature AltspaceVR introduced this week. The company has been on the forefront of experimenting with live entertainment in virtual reality, bringing on comedians like Reggie Watts, news casters like Al Roker, and even journalists like our own Russell Brandom.
WALKING THROUGH A SURREAL SORT OF SELFIE
Up until now the only way to catch a performance in AltspaceVR was to log in while it was happening live or watch it after as a flat, two-dimensional video. The new VR capture collects data on everything happening in the three-dimensional environment, so that during a replay a viewer can move freely around the space. As a nice gimmick, viewers inside a replay can even interact with certain items, for example grabbing a glow stick.
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Source: The Verge