I was under the impression it was a lawsuit by a parent troll
Long-time virtual world journalist says lack of avatar control/identity expression & worldbuilding capabilities part of @AltspaceVR's demisehttps://twitter.com/slhamlet/status/891023778964152320 …
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Reuters says Virtual Immersion Technologies filed a patent suit vs
@AltspaceVR. Part of unforeseen circumstances?http://www.reuters.com/article/virtual-reality-idUSL1N1JP25W … -
Vice wrote up a piece on Virtual Immersion Technologies being a patent troll. Could be same patent they're claiminghttps://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d7y5j7/the-whole-vr-porn-industry-is-talking-about-these-patent-lawsuits …
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There are more details about the lawsuit here http://litigation.maxval-ip.com/Litigation/DetailView?CaseID=sVY%2FOQ6Lhvw%3D&logstat=false&Party=Virtual%20Immersion%20Technologies,%20LLC%20v.%20AltspaceVR,%20Inc …
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Shame all the real content is behind a paywall, would be interesting to see the full details. Should be public record somewhere right?
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50% of our engineering team were working on these two things the last 3-4 months. new avatars in 1-2 mos, new space SDK in ~2 weeks :(
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It had the best world building API - three.js and aframe. Trying, *trying* to find something comparitive.
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Was it marketed as a world building feature though? My impression was it was to bring bits of content and functionality in rather than wrlds
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we were dogfooding it already and probably would have rolled out a rough v1 in a few weeks
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Avatar as credibility currency and a barrier to entry. We've been talking about reducing barriers, when we may want to increase them.
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As far as avatars acting as credibility / social capital I think
@VRChatNet dominates there
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