| Excited to share a side project I have been working on with my friends at Fluxon (Erad and AJ (@lasersox)) and Katsuya Noguchi (@katsuyan). We got sick of all the Zoom happy hours, birthday parties, and company get togethers. In parallel, serendipity largely died - you could no longer run into a friend or co-worker or interesting new person given social distancing. So, we put together Pluto - built on webRTC with MediaSoup and webGL with THREE.js and many other technologies. Pluto is a browser-only VR space (no headsets needed) for spacial video chats and hangouts. You can move around in using first-person shooter-like controls. Sound decays with distance so different groups can break up and hang out. Just drop in a link, and you can attend an event over video (no headset, no nothing). Create a virtual world in just one click! Everything is represented in 3D which means people can randomly run into each other and serendipity can finally happen again. We have built out a number of worlds using Blender to construct 3D models of :
-Burning Man
-The Maldives
-Admont Abbey Library
-A room in old Austria. You can go to https://pluto.video to try it in your own VR in-browser world. It is best tried out with friends but can also be fun to explore the virtual world solo. Come check it out and let us all know what you think! It is still early / janky but we wanted to get it out there and get some feedback :) We will be hanging out at an instance from 11am to 1:30pm PT at https://team.pluto.video. Pluto was partially inspired in part by new social experiments on the web like Clubhouse, Gatherly, Rally, Rambly, Sonar, Teamflow, Yorb and others.... |
I’m confused. Does it work with a headset? The mobile site isn’t clear on this. I have an Oculus Quest, and for a moment I got excited to see a browser-based VR chat app (the Firefox Reality browser has good VR plugin support). If it doesn’t work with headsets at all, then in my view VR is a misleading adjective.