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S1:E2 - Building community in a virtual world: Moderation tools in VR (Cameron Brown)

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4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Cameron Brown, CCO at Against Gravity, tells us how his team creates a safe and welcoming space in their virtual reality game, Rec Room.

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0:00.0

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0:01.6

What, already?

0:02.7

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0:06.2

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0:09.0

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0:09.7

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0:13.3

John Sina as the president, and Prianka Chopra Jonas,

0:15.9

as their only hope.

0:17.0

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0:18.2

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0:23.0

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0:28.2

go to amazon.com.ukau.U.K. slash prime.

0:45.3

Welcome to episode two of season one of the Cohnabee podcast, where we talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours.

0:49.2

I'm your host, Saron, and today on the show we are talking about virtual reality.

0:52.0

So there's this game called Rec Room.

0:53.5

No! No!

1:28.3

That's my husband, Rob, watching me play. Why are you doing this? As you can tell, he's very impressed. It's a virtual reality game, or VR for short. Bye! You put on a VR headset, we use the HDC V. And if you haven't tried this before, you strap it on your head and it completely covers your eyes. So all you see is this whole new world. And since the game is called rec room, the world you see is a rec room. So rec room is a virtual reality social club. That's Cameron Brown, Chief Creative Officer at Against Gravity. And we make rec room. You can play all kinds of games. Play disc golf and go on adventures and play paintball. When you start the game... Oh, this is so cool. Okay, learn. Alright, are you ready? Are you ready to listen? I'm excited. You're in a place called the dorm room, where you can pick your avatar. Now, these avatars are human, so you can choose things like your hair, your outfit, your skin color. Why did you do that? I'm so black, it's crazy. Now, normally on the show, I try to keep it really professional, but...

1:47.0

Yo, this is weird.

1:48.0

I'm a black man, yo. It's the same thing as John says. But I got really excited. Yeah, I mean, I'm already blacked off. I'm a man. I have a penis. That's crazy. Rec Room is the most popular VR game.

1:42.8

It's literally never empty.

1:45.7

There's people in it all the time.

1:47.8

Playing virtual basketball Rec Room is the most popular VR game. It's literally never empty. It's, there's people in it all the time.

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