As VentureBeat just reported, NWN media partner Sine Wave has teamed up with Philip Rosedale to bring High Fidelity's 3D spatial audio to Breakroom, its browser-based platform for virtual world events and remote teams, and it's a metaverse reunion of sorts:
The deal is a convergence of pioneers who have made their mark on the development of virtual life. Philip Rosedale is the CEO of High Fidelity and launched Second Life in 2003. Sine Wave Entertainment, the creator of Breakroom, got its start as a content brand in Second Life before it spun out to create its own virtual meeting spaces for real-world events.
Adam Frisby, chief product officer and cofounder of Sine Wave, said in an interview conducted inside Breakroom that the High Fidelity spatial audio will help Breakroom create a triple-A quality experience in a virtual world.
Sine Wave’s Breakroom draws heavily on lessons learned in Second Life to create a frictionless, mass market, user-friendly virtual world.
“You can hear everything better with High Fidelity,” Rosedale said in our interview in Breakroom. “Breakroom combines low-latency server-side video and spatial audio in a way that lets you hold an event like it’s in the real world.”
Listen above for a demo, more here. I'm highly biased of course, but I believe this represents one major next step to bringing metaverse technology to the mass market.
Speaking of which, I'm hosting a literal fireside event in Breakroom with Philip and Adam this Thursday at Noon PM, and there are a few seats available: Click here to reserve a spot in "The Metaverse as a Shared Imagination" chat.
If only SL could have this .. or any of the other technologies developed by HiFi .. or even any of the stuff developed by LL for Sansar.
Posted by: 0xc0ffea | Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at 12:22 PM