Watch Philip Rosedale's High Fidelity Avatar Broadcast from San Francisco onto a Singapore Stage to Do a Live Audience Q&A

This is a pretty impressive mixed reality application of social VR: Philip Rosedale logged into High Fidelity in San Francisco so his avatar can be broadcast onto a screen on a conference stage in Singapore, with latency low enough that he can participate in the audience Q&A. At the same time, an audience in High Fidelity joins him to watch the Singapore event broadcast into the virtual world. "I think this is a first," Philip says on Twitter, and he may be right. I'm not sure if this might replace other, more standard forms of long distance presence -- i.e., just broadcasting a person's Skype feed onto an onstage screen -- but it's certainly a more fun alternative.

Via Philip Rosedale's Twitter:

I think this is a first - I spoke on a panel at Siggraph from inside @highfidelityinc by projecting my avatar onto a screen on-stage. Worked perfectly. https://t.co/3PN0mOwYE1

— Philip Rosedale (@philiprosedale) December 4, 2017

Comments

[money]

I guess what some folks were doing 10 years ago is considered 'hip' today.

too funny

[Old Susanna]

Why no Life-Like Hologram of Philip on the stage in Singapore?

[Masami Kuramoto]

Just a little tech demo to remind you that High Fidelity is way ahead of the game, while you keep waiting for Linden Lab to maybe one day turn Sansar into something that isn't as dead and boring as Blue Mars. ;)

[XaosPrincess]

Being able to attend a conference in Asia without leaving one's home on the other side of the world also has just been fantastic for the inworld audience!!