What are /r/AltspaceVR's favorite Products & Services?

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The presentations you would see where using something like slides.com and you bring those presentations into your space or event, the Media Control panel is effectively Altspace's native slides tool.

As for competition, Altspace still has the most fluent and easy social function, non of the other platforms make it so easy to meet and chat with lots of new people in a nicely moderated common space. And Horizons will have one major issue on top of that, and that's Facebook, who already had a lot of haters when it was just unscrupulous with user data, Now that Facebook compounded their bad reputation with being super aggressive and unhelpful with their users with the Merging issue, despite many of those effected having genuine Facebook accounts, and being good customers for a number of years, a lot of people just want to stay clear of anything Facebook from now on.

I've also been locked out of my Oculus account since merging on the 13th when I got my Quest 2, its been two weeks since I put my ticket in and still not got any help from them, when I ask why I am told "due to a higher than normal amount of tickets its going to take longer to process the ticket, and they are looked at in order they came in"

2 WEEKS!! and who knows how much longer?, That alone shows how many tickets must of been submitted ny people with the same issues on day 1.

That means more potential users for Altspace of course

Two ways to do it off the top of my head. Both require two devices running separate instances of Altspace (unless you can run two instances locally, which I don't think you can.)

First option: On the non-VR PC, open altspace and set your character where you want the 'webcam' to be. This character will act as the webcam and you make the call from here. XSplit supports DirectShow which makes it compatible with Skype. Never tried, but it ought to work in Hangouts. Make your call from there, set XSplit as the webcam, hop in the VR rig, and you're set.

Option Two: If XSplit is difficult to set up, do the same as above, but use DroidCam from an Android device to use your phone/tablet as your PC webcam. This is very easy to set up, but obviously it will be recording your monitor instead of the window directly. Using this method, you don't actually need two PCs, since you could theoretically run Altspace on a tablet and then film it with your phone.

Unless there is a way to set up an observer camera, that's all I can think of.

Thanks for the reply mate, much appreciated :)

I still get the same error message with any twitch link I try, but I did a test with some streams from dlive.tv, & they worked fine - no stuttering! (using the JSON file as you described above).

I also tried a youtube stream but that didn't work either. So I guess I'll stick with dlive!

Thanks for the heads-up re. people not being able to hear or see the stream. I have encountered that at some events too, & usually it was fixed by exiting & re-entering the world. (But not always).

There’s currently a bug due to a change that Slides made on their end. Here’s the work around:

Many web browsers will not play videos with sound unless the viewer has actively interacted with the page first. To work around this, we had to add the “start screen” you’re seeing which forces live presentation viewers to click on the page before entering a presentation, ensuring that videos will play. We only show this start screen if there is at least one non-muted video in the presentation.

As a temporary workaround, you can append ?skipStartScreen to the end of your URL.

https://slides.com/hakim/video-test/live becomes https://slides.com/hakim/video-test/live?skipStartScreen

from your browser on a PC, go to slides.com and open your slideshow. Select the open-deck icon and then chose the 'present' option. That should get you into 'present view' which has a panel on the left. one of the urls there is labeled 'present live'. this is the URL you want to specify in your event. you can set it up at altvr.com ahead of time. when creating the event, open 'Aditional Options' and paste the url into the 'Public Enclosure URL' field. That way the screen in the event will show only the slideshow itself and none of the controls. you can advance the slides from your pc while you're presenting.

If there is an update to be made then you might try that. Alternatively, try downloading this standalone version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.altvr.AltspaceVR and launching from there.