[RobertLong]

Hey I'm one of the three devs working on Third Room. Really excited to finally be showing off our hard work!

To clear things up a bit. Our tiny team isn't taking away from the development going on with the rest of the Matrix ecosystem. In fact, we're helping build out a bunch of really important pieces. When I started I helped build out Element Call and our full mesh VoIP stack that's now being built into Element natively. Our team has also been helping with Hydrogen's VoIP implementation and OpenID Connect authentication. As we progress further we'll be able to help in scaling up VoIP performance with our cascading SFU architecture.

We've been working on this project since February and we're pretty excited with the progress so far! We believe Matrix has the opportunity to play a critical role in this emerging space and can do so without distracting from its core mission of enabling open, decentralized messaging for everyone.

[RobertLong]

Also if you want to dive into more of the engineering bits, I've been sharing a bunch of technical info on our renderer and asset pipeline here:

https://twitter.com/arobertlong/status/1574824795216101376

[solarkraft]

> Our tiny team isn't taking away from the development going on with the rest of the Matrix ecosystem

So who funds the project?

[Arathorn]

Element funds the project, but the point is that the folks working on TR would not otherwise be working on general Matrix improvements. There are more than enough people working on improving Matrix proper.

Also, Third Room is already enormously helping drive awareness and attention to Matrix which then helps us get more funding to improve Matrix as a whole.

[stiltzkin]

Are all of you against blockchain tech (nfts, tokens)? really cool you can make a decentralized open world but closed minded about uses cases of tokens inside an open world is limiting.

[paulcarroty]

Hey, any plans for voip multichat like Discord?

[Arathorn]

Yup, that is what Element Call is (the thing the Third Room built beforehand, and the tech that Third Room uses for spatial audio VoIP and networking). We’ve just finished integrating it with Element Web; it looks like this: https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1566063359996428289. You can play with it if you enable both video rooms and Element Call in Labs in Settings on develop.element.io.