Hey, I don’t think it was by chance I came across your post, there is some element of providence here as we have similar interests. I had a look at your Hive profile and saw some posts about Unity being dead.
Apart from being co-founder of Blurt I also founded @gamestate, a metaverse project built on Unity with a Web3 SDK for token/NFT gating, we raised a modest ~100K and built the platform, it has many cool features and in-game menus and settings, Streamyard integration and Ready Player Me avatars, so you can sign in with your Blurt avatar and meet in virtual space.
It’s not VR but if I connect my Xreal Light AR glasses I can play it from my Macbook on a real big screen infront of me, which is fairly immersive.
Wishlist features would be voice chat, private text and voice chat, maybe integrating Matrix for that. Improving load times and mobile version, maybe look into pixel streaming so it can be used on low power devices, marketplace for NFT assets and an ingame environment builder or at least an object placement system.
Our launch was dampened by a trifecta of calamities, namely the Ukraine war, Luna crash and FTX fiasco, we approached so many VC’s amd were unable to raise further funding, while apps like Spatial and Monaverse have soared ahead.
Our unity devs are hired from a studio so only work when there is money, which ran out a good 6 months ago.
I also saw the Unity news and wish we had built on something open source like Godot, which with the right narrative may interest VC’s.
I’m at a point where I’m out of my own ideas on how to move forward and waiting for the right opportunity or people to present themselves.
Right now I am just starting to learn game development so I can do something with 3D gaming. Ideally a game I can connect to the Hive blockchain. Maybe also something else for Blurt. I am hoping by the end of 2024 I'll know enough to have a simple game prototype.
Back on January 1, 2020 I posted on Hive about this decade being the "Theatron '20s". "Theatron" being Greek for "seeing place". Back on June 16, 2018 I posted about different groups that were working on holographic television. That's a post I will definitely be updating in 2024. So I am a strong believer that volumetric 3D entertainment is the future. I am sure the right opportunity will come along for you. For all we know the technology for that opportunity will be invented tomorrow.
I hope after the economy recovers you can make up for lost time. I've seen a few YouTube videos about converting from Unity to Godot. I don't know how far along in your project you were so maybe switching game engines isn't an option. In either case I wish you luck. It sounds interesting.
I think that the future may lean more towards portable wearables rather than fixed position TV’s. I have seen some interesting uses of volumetric filming of events to be displayed inside a virtual space where you can walk your avatar around the scene.
Looking forward to seeing your game creations come to life, feel free to share your journey on Blurt!