Private Spaces development is going pretty smoothly (Patreon)

Greetings, late night developer here.

I wanted to give you an update on the multiplayer experiences we're developing.

The first phase is Private Spaces.

We've been testing private spaces with a few people in our discord over the last week.  Progress has been great!

I’m adding more avatars with more customization for everyone to use until our advanced avatar system is in place.

The last test was designed to look at bandwidth, motion, and accuracy.  At the end, we had everyone go into a circle and touch finger tips to the exact same point.  Nailed it.

There was also dildo juggling.

And haptics worked all around.

The goal is to expand Private Spaces to everyone the end of next week.

What does “everyone” mean?  It’s means than anyone can join a private room.

We’re reserving hosting rooms to our VIP and Star Patreon people

Those supporters will be able to create a room, but anyone can join if invited.  You invite people by sharing your room link.  Think of it like a hotel room key.  We have a dedicated channel for this in our Discord.

We are reserving the creation of rooms for two reasons

1:  We have to keep a close eye on network costs as we scale production.

2:  Handle any development that might kick up from a rollout.

We will be investigating more ways for anyone to host (maybe timed or some steam mechanism) once things are deemed stable.

Everything we build is focused on consent and privacy, so development may be focused on aspects that are not always apparent.

Safety promotes expression 

and we want everyone to enjoy expressing themselves.

It’s our main thing actually.

Now, what you won't see in the Private Spaces

A final product.  This is an early look and some aspects are in the process of getting replaced / upgraded (the avatar system is getting completely upgraded so we have placeholder avatars for now).

The first release will support:

• Basic customization of a few predetermined avatars
• Select one of many pre-made poses for intimate interactions
• Hold and use an adult toy on anyone in the room.  It will vibrate any connected adult toys they have.  The deeper the virtual toy goes, the more the real toy vibrates.
• Chat via text or voice
• Move around the room

We believed that releasing something early with many little updates is better than keeping people waiting any longer.  This means that updates will be coming much more rapidly, but in smaller chunks, as we build this system.

Thank you everyone for supporting the Virtual Romance (ViRo) projects.  We couldn't do any of this with out you.

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