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Philip Rosedale

High Fidelity Spatial Audio - Virtual Spaces to Gather + Live Spatial Audio for Apps/Games

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High Fidelity's patented Spatial Audio technology delivers incredible, synchronous, immersive audio experiences designed and built by professional musicians, composers, producers, and streaming media pioneers. Try it free at highfidelity.com

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Ryan Hoover
Glad to see more experimentation with audio/voice. We're seeing it in the workplace with Tandem, Watercooler, Yac, among others. And several on the consumer/social side with Clubhouse, Cappuccino, Storm, etc. I'm curious, what's the most interesting or surprising use case for High Fidelity so far, @philiprosedale?
Philip Rosedale
Maker
@rrhoover Thank you! We had an experimental party a couple months ago where about 100 people from NYC who hadn't seen each other since COVID started came together. There were several DJs and musicians playing live, and everyone was very happy and chased each other around in conga lines going between the musicians. Later we all sang "New York, New York" in a big circle. It felt certain this was something that could make people happy.
Ashleigh Harris
Maker
@rrhoover The virtual events space is going through such an upheaval that we’re seeing some really forward-thinking organizations turning to High Fidelity to fill the void and bring people together in a more natural and enjoyable way than videoconferencing tools can. A couple really cool additional use cases that standout to me are Pride celebrations, academic gatherings, a summer camp, and a "beach party" themed music festival.
Philip Rosedale
Maker
High Fidelity started out in 2013 hoping that VR hardware would be as ubiquitous as the mobile phone by 2020. Turns out, we’re far from that reality. Our mission from the beginning has been to serve humanity by building technology that helps people be together, in the most natural way possible, from anywhere in the world. So we have spent the last several months optimizing our patented 3D audio technology to work on nearly any device. It’s designed for crowds -- you can hear 3D surround sound of everyone near you and hear others who are in the distance.This new version of High Fidelity is cloud-based and works using a browser. Everyone in your family, all of your friends and colleagues, have a device that should be able to use it. People can use it to connect with each other for a wide variety of reasons — from listening to live music, to family gatherings, hosting parties, networking at conferences, big festivals, political rallies, classrooms, happy hours, or anything else you can dream up.
Janna
@philiprosedale Congrats! As a fan of High Fidelity, I'm excited how this will turn out to be 📈 This would catch both accessibility & immersion for everyone - will try for sure!
Philip Rosedale
Maker
@robinraszka Thanks Robin - is there a browser-based version of Facemoji?
Jack Denning
@philiprosedale I hope that High Fidelity will be used for BRC this year. It's a totally awesome product.
Mark Toner
This is the missing link in online conferencing systems. This is the breakout room and the coffee after the talk. Brilliant.
Emily Iwankovitsch
Maker
@mark_toner We're happy to hear that, Mark! Thanks for checking out High Fidelity.
Christianna Haywood
@mark_toner @hiyaemilyrose Can it be used in existing conference software for that purpose? If so, how and which platforms are compatible?
Mark Toner
@hiyaemilyrose @christianna_haywood It doesn't link to anything unfortunately. You would have to set something up yourself.
Dominik Bleilevens
I really like the idea of having a space to walk around, start off with people in a smaller area and instead of having to switch Zoom or WebEx sessions, which is always taking too much time, you could do breakout sessions in the same space – I love it! I believe there's a huge potential and I'm looking forward to see how it evolves! Thanks to @ashleighh and the others also for immediately answering my first questions and welcoming me in the Product Hunt community welcome space! Features I'd like to see: - share your screen so you can present something (maybe even several people at the same time?) - more admin tools (mute all, raise hands, set background image for all without having to change the URL, etc.) - easier setup of streaming music – on Mac it's a real hassle to set it up (e.g. admin could be able to place sound sources/dots through YouTube URLs, which just take the audio) - press shift to "run" ;-) Thanks a lot dear High Fidelity Team!
Alan Zimmerman
Maker
@ashleighh @beleevens Thanks for the great feedback and ideas Dom! All great suggestions!
Ashleigh Harris
Maker
@beleevens @fazimmerman AGREE! Nice to meet you in High Fidelity!
drew beck
@ashleighh @beleevens That's my list to, plus routing the same audio source to a lot of dots/speakers and/or setting the audio range of a speaker/dot! Love this product thanks
Dominik Bleilevens
@ashleighh @drewbeck as admin you already can change your personal range (e.g. also "to everybody in the whole space"). But yes, would be interesting to have more options here, maybe also for visitors. :)
Ashleigh Harris
Maker
LIMITED-TIME PRODUCT HUNT COMMUNITY OFFER: Looking to host a virtual party or event? If you want help creating a custom background for it we’ll happily help you out for free! And if you need to accommodate a bigger crowd of people, we'll happily cover those premium costs for your first event. This is a limited-time offer so get a jump on it. Email contact@highfidelity.com and put "Product Hunt Offer" in the subject line. (Offer good through July 31, 2020.) Restrictions apply, but our goal is to do our best to help people be successful.
Rainer Selvet
Impressive audio quality! Congrats HiFi team!
Alan Zimmerman
Maker
@tiivik Thanks Rainer, so great to hear from you!
Brandon Uttley
Love it at first sight! Congrats, this is extremely cool.
Emily Iwankovitsch
Maker
@brandonuttley Thanks so much, Brandon!
Miles Ukaoma ᴏʟʏ
Incredible audio quality! Makes me lament the calls I have scheduled on Zoom or Hangouts.
Emily Iwankovitsch
Maker
@milesukaoma Thank you so much, Miles!
Ashleigh Harris
Maker
Come join the Makers and other in the Product Hunt community if you want to see what it's like before opening your own space. We'll be hanging out for a bit! [Sorry, space is closed, but you can open your own space free and give it a try!]
Lori Landay
Excellent audio quality.
Emily Iwankovitsch
Maker
@loirl Thank you, Lori!
Dallas Kashuba
I've used this myself, and the experience is unlike anything else. It's more casual and social than video conference tools, and fun too.
Emily Iwankovitsch
Maker
@dallas Appreciate your feedback, Dallas! Thank you. Yes -- being able to have water cooler conversations :)
michael j lambie
Super fun, engaging. what a cool way to mimic real world action! i met Zack from the team. very cool. great job in a short time! this would be great for so many events!
Emily Iwankovitsch
Maker
@michael_j_lambie Thank you for the awesome feedback, Michael! So glad you could come and chat with us!
Zach Fox
Maker
@michael_j_lambie It was great to chat with you, Michael! :)
Zac Duff
I love it, the whole team is running around having conversations. I can see this as a replacement for the spontaneous conversations we've lost since working from home. Four things I'd like to see: 1) Walls blocking audio. Makes a lot of sense to go into a room and have conversations outside be quieter. 2) Cone of silence between two or more users. Would also make meetings more discreet. 3) AFK badge. We really want to replace group Slack calls, if we could pop up an AFK badge, it would be perfect. 4) Hook the record player in the party house background up to Spotify 😉
Alan Zimmerman
Maker
@zac_duff Thank you for popping in Zac! Those are some great thoughts--don't be surprised if you see some of those making their way into the experience 😉
Eduardo
A similar product but in my opinion superior is Remo https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Emily Iwankovitsch
Maker
@hombrelobo Hi, Eduardo! Thank you for your feedback. We want as many people to use our platform as possible on as many devices as possible, even on crappy networks! That being said, adding video has its pros and cons. In High Fidelity audio spaces, it is possible to move around with up to 150 people in a single shared interactive space, and people can hear the murmur of conversations with spatialized audio. We hope you’ll give it a try, and thanks again for your comment!
Christianna Haywood
@hombrelobo @hiyaemilyrose I was wondering about that! I’ve done Remo and the video was a nice feature, but it’s missing the ambient audio. I think it might be nice to have cone of silence rooms with video features if desired, which kind of blends the two experiences.
Christian Pasquel
I've been using High Fidelity intensively for the last 4 weeks and it's really a unique experience. The potential is amazing and all people I've invited to my space are impressed. I also enjoy a lot creating new maps. Congratulations!
Emily Iwankovitsch
Maker
@geekykidstuff Thank you so much, Christian! It's great to hear that feedback. Would love to see the maps you've created! Tag us on social if you'd like to share (@HighFidelityXR and #hifimap).
Jane Watson
fabulous voice quality
Fuji Keiko
Congrats with a launch! Great to see more products in that space. I hold some events on Spatail Chat which seems quite similar to your product. https://www.producthunt.com/post... What is the surprising use case for High Fidelity I am missing?
Emily Iwankovitsch
Maker
@fudzi_keika Thank you! What events do you enjoy hosting in SpatialChat? Thanks for your question about use cases. High Fidelity’s online 3D audio spaces currently support up to 150 people, and we are actively working on scaling to much, much larger crowds. That being said, we hope to enable people hosting very large events such as political rallies, conferences, huge concerts, and much more. Some of the cool use cases we’ve already seen are music festivals, graduation ceremonies, Pride celebrations, academic gatherings, and summer camps. Hopefully you'll give High Fidelity a try for an upcoming event and see how it compares! We'd love to hear how it goes. Thanks again for your feedback!
Fuji Keiko
@hiyaemilyrose Hey Emily, thanks for reply. I host a DJ set and some local dev meetups. Spatial chat constrained by 50 people in the free version, but they have an enterprise solution for a bigger events, afaik. Though for my case 50 was more than enough.
Fuji Keiko
@hiyaemilyrose Btw, can you elaborate on 3D audio? From video I didn't get what it makes it 3D?
Emily Iwankovitsch
Maker
@fudzi_keika DJ sets and local dev meetups sound like great use cases. And good question about 3D audio! As you move around in High Fidelity, if you are wearing wired headphones, you will hear the others from the correct direction and distance, just as you would at a physical gathering in real life. For instance, if an avatar is to your right, you will hear them in your right ear. You can move close to someone and whisper in their ear, or move away from others and listen to the murmur of a crowd from afar.
Piotr Gaczkowski
Do you plan on adding video as well or to keep it audio-only?
Emily Iwankovitsch
Maker
@doomhammer Hi there! Thank you for your question, Piotr. We’re thinking about it. Adding video has its pros and cons — it hinders scalability and devices accessibility which we feel are important. We want people even with slow internet networks or older devices to be able to use our platform. Many early users have reported they enjoy the warm, low-latency 3D audio experience and even prefer it to video (Zoom fatigue and all). But I did want to note: it is currently possible to embed live streams from YouTube or Twitch into an audio space. Check out our Knowledge Base for more info!
Piotr Gaczkowski
@hiyaemilyrose thanks for the detailed answer! Putting user experience above everything else is a wise move. And if users prefer smooth and effortless chat than having video, you should definitely go that way. I imagine it to be much lighter on resources and bandwidth as well!
Emily Iwankovitsch
Maker
@doomhammer Thank you, Piotr!
Lorenzo Vallone
This is something I've been dreaming about and now its here! Congrats HF!
Emily Iwankovitsch
Maker
@lorenzo_vallone Thank you so much, Lorenzo!
draxtor™
really really love the direction this is going Philip and team!!!