| 16 Feb 2020 |
| 20:55:01 |  Remæus | In reply to @captaincalliope:mozilla.org
Hey ya'll! I found my way to this channel awhile ago via this post: https://matrix.org/blog/2017/04/04/opening-up-cyberspace-with-matrix-and-webvr
Given that Mozilla (who i sometimes do stuff with) is moving from irc to matrix, I thought I'd give this channel a bump and see if anyone is still paying attention.
So, Mozilla is doing Matrix stuff. Mozilla is also doing VR stuff. One of the things they're working on is a product called hubs (https://hubs.mozilla.com/) which enables the easy creation of social vr spaces.
I just found out they built a bot for integrating Hubs with Discord (https://hubs.mozilla.com/docs/hubs-discord-bot.html) which brought me back here because it seems like there could be potential for Matrix and Mozilla to do some interesting vr things together that weren't possible even a few months ago.
This being open source is a huge boon to our work on verse.im |
| 20:55:40 | Remæus | We're opening up about ~3000 games from https://www.roleplaygateway.com/universes for exploration within VR + browser access |
| 20:56:00 | Remæus | MUD-style worlds with Matrix state for data |
| 22:45:22 |  anoa | In reply to @remaeus:roleplaygateway.com
MUD-style worlds with Matrix state for data Huh, are you actually doing this or just theorizing it? |
| 22:46:49 | Remæus | Already done, we've got a bridge into our existing MUD world, focusing on the Multiverse for our main instance but same engine available for everyone |
| 22:47:17 | Remæus | Remaining work is almost entirely assets, graphical representations of items, mobs, etc. |
| 22:48:22 | Remæus | matrix-js-sdk on the client side but migrating to any number of lighter clients (riot-web a bit big for our tastes at ~5MB) |
| 22:49:11 | Remæus | Chat is the "console" for the game world currently, builder commands + gm controls (mob and item spawning, quests, etc) |
| 22:52:27 | anoa | Very nice! |
| 22:52:47 | Remæus | Here's one of the "virtual spaces" that has been popular lately: https://www.roleplaygateway.com/universes/the-multiverse/places/raptor-bar-and-grill |
| 22:53:08 | Remæus | We've got 15 years of logs that we need to backfill, planning on opening to public afterwards, sometime in next ~3 months |
| 22:54:29 | Remæus | Public log of all active scenes: https://www.roleplaygateway.com/scenes |
| 22:55:40 | anoa | Interesting! So it's mostly text-based rp'ing? |
| 22:56:02 | Remæus | To date yes, about 3 years ago we decided to move forward with graphical rendering of in-game stuff |
| 22:56:26 | Remæus | ~9 years of players / worldbuilders reflecting IC roleplay content into tracked items, locations, factions |
| 22:56:53 | Remæus | Some lofty MUSH-style goals with NLP for triggering in-game behaviors |
| 22:57:23 | anoa | very cool. using chat bots essentially? |
| 22:57:30 | Remæus | Training on our historical message log w/ supervision from state changes like item creations, etc. |
| 22:58:01 | Remæus | Yes, client-side agent with all game logic, bots only used to enforce validation |
| 22:58:49 | anoa | I see, so some actual ML stuff then? |
| 22:59:25 | Remæus | Yes, but likely to be reserved for a future release after QA... lots of players invested quite a bit of time on their characters |
| 22:59:39 | Remæus | NLP / ML hard to get right without undesired effects |
| 22:59:50 | Remæus | since it's a persistent world we have to be careful |
| 23:00:27 | anoa | yep, makes total sense |
| 23:00:32 | anoa | I wish you luck with it :) |
| 23:00:56 | Remæus | thanks, would be eager to have @lostamongtrees:roleplaygateway.com do a walkthrough if you're ever interested |
| 23:01:20 | Remæus | team size now ~30 people, across builders, artists, and writers |
| 23:01:28 | Remæus | #lobby:roleplaygateway.com |
| 17 Feb 2020 |
| 15:55:22 |  John | that sounds cool! Needs to go into Matrix Live/TWIM... |
| 16:15:27 | anoa | #thisweekinmatrix:matrix.org ftr |
