Tag: XR Social Engagement Builder

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June 10, 2024, By BENJAMIN SHEKHEY WU

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In this project, I built a platform designed to help people interact with others worldwide, but with the look and feel of being in the same room without language barriers in the Metaverse.

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Overview

With Social Connection Interspace (SCI), my groundbreaking platform powered by Virtual Reality (VR) and Large Language Models (LLMs), communication transcends borders and cultures, fostering real-time connection and understanding. The SCI virtual environment redefines collaboration and engagement. By harnessing the power of Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Big Data, it creates a seamless experience where people can connect, share ideas, and reach consensus.

SCI is more than just a Metaverse platform, it is also a doorway to evolve the engagement ecosystem. This paper will share what I discovered and what is needed when building a Metaverse platform, including AI, hand tracking, and consideration of authenticity, how I prototyped all these elements to develop into one project, and how SCI can benefit users and future researchers moving forward.

Introduction

When building connections, would you rather do so in person or virtually? Most people receive greater benefits when interacting with others in the same physical place where they can make stronger connections than when meeting through a screen. Virtual meetings could make it more difficult to understand one another because people can only look at the upper part of their bodies and lack context and body language.

In larger forums, virtual meetings can also be constricting in that they only allow one person to talk at a time, prohibit side conversations, and put the speaker under a spotlight, which can be daunting to some and prevent them from participating in the meeting. Some of the advantages of my project include seeing an individual’s full characteristics within their environment in the meeting and having more convenient ways to brainstorm about a subject such as sharing a whiteboard.

According to the article, In Person vs Virtual Conference,

Responding or asking questions virtually is more impersonal and there may be less engagement between speaker and audience. With recorded sessions, the attendee cannot participate in real-time answer and question sessions.

In-person vs. virtual conferences

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