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At Meta Connect 2023, Meta officially announced that games and apps from the Quest Store have generated more than $2 billion in revenue. XR devices are becoming more user-friendly and popular with consumers, with the mainstream XR device Quest gaining momentum, with more than 1.1 million visits to the official Meta Quest mobile app in the 2023 Christmas week alone, reflecting strong sales of the Quest headset.
With so many new users joining the XR virtual space, not only games, but also users are exploring new experiences that smartphones, computers, and tablets do not have, as part of the connection with society, people need social apps to communicate and understand social dynamics, and social apps are becoming more and more important in daily life. According to the 2023 AFP news, according to the statistical report on the state of the Internet released quarterly, nearly 5 billion people (48800 million) are active on social networks, accounting for 60 percent of the world's total population6%。
In order to further expand the gravitational scope of social applications, open up the ecosystem, encourage creation, and drive traffic conversion, it is necessary to promote the application to more potential users with the help of a new hardware experience.
New technologies give birth to new scenarios, XR technology is developing rapidly, and the release of Apple's Vision Pro will bring more new experiences to social applications.
On February 2, Pacific time, Apple's Vision Pro was officially launched in the United States. Gyro-kun also conducted an evaluation for the first time, related reading: "[VR Gyro Evaluation] Apple Vision Pro, not perfect but highly recommended to buy".
Apple officially pointed out that more than 600 apps and games designed to take advantage of the unique and powerful features of Vision Pro were launched together on February 2, with more than 1 million apps compatible with iOS and iPadOS.
Zhiwen Group announced the official launch of the immersive social app "Inspaze" on the App Store on February 2 (US time), which will be launched simultaneously with Apple's Vision Pro as part of 600 native apps.
Based on Vision Pro, Inspaze combines Apple's FaceTime, SharePlay functions, gesture recognition, eye tracking and other technical aids to change the social inconvenience caused by geographical, time, language and other restrictions, and the innovation of Inspaze can bring natural and efficient communication and rich immersive entertainment.
Source: Zhiwen Group.
One of the most important data for social apps is the number of users, Zhiwen Group was founded in 2011 and listed on the NASDAQ exchange in 2014. "Connecting people, connecting lives" is the vision of Zhiwen Group. In addition to exploring social applications, Zhiwen Group also has a variety of businesses such as film production and distribution (Momo Pictures) and program production (Kubot Culture).
Source: Internet.
Take the two "pillars" social applications of Zhiwen Group as an example: in Momo, users can show themselves through **, text, voice, **, discover nearby people based on geographical location, join nearby groups, and establish real, effective and healthy social relationships; In Tantan, according to the user's personal information, location, interests and hobbies, it can calculate and push the people around you who match the user, helping users meet new friends who have a good impression of each other.
Obviously, Zhiwen Group has mastered the traffic password in the field of stranger social networking, how to use the potential of social applications accumulated over the years: many users, accurate positioning, accurate matching, and strong interactivity, through the new Vision Pro to "play a good card" on the "Inspaze" platform? The key lies in innovation in social app gameplay.
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Inspaze is an innovative attempt by Zhiwen Group and is now available on the Vision Pro App Store** as a social product positioned to "break down spatial isolation and language barriers, and bring you and your global friends to the same virtual environment." "Users can have a rich entertainment and social experience through immersive interactions.
What can we experience in Inspaze?
With the support of real-time translation, users can communicate freely and without barriers with people from all over the world; You can create your own personalized image and customize your own personal space; You can also "party" with other users anytime and anywhere, hold parties together, and play lively chess games ......Next, Gyro-kun will bring the first-hand experience of "Inspaze".
As a spatial computing device, Apple's Vision Pro not only has full hardware capabilities, but also has a huge application ecosystem to support, and the success of the iPhone is largely due to the vigorous development of the application ecosystem.
Not only is it a productivity tool, but social networking is also a major application scenario for the Vision Pro, and it can be seen from the device's Eyesight function that Apple does not want the user's XR experience to be lonely and completely isolated from the real world, but wants to create a social interaction experience that is closely connected to the real world.
FaceTime (Source: Apple).
The technological innovation has brought a new interactive experience to the XR social app, and Apple's Vision Pro supports eye tracking, gesture capture, facial capture, and voice interaction, as well as enriching the representation of FaceTime's realistic virtual human, PersonA. Apple has released the official development tutorial of Vision Pro, introducing the "SharePlay Sharing" function, which allows users to get a sense of presence in the same space experience and realize content sharing.
Source: VR Gyroscope.
Supported by Vision Pro's powerful technical capabilities, "Inspaze" has brought a new experience to social users, and Gyro-kun has also been the first to experience it. Complete the Iris Recognition (Optic ID) authentication, log in to the app with your Apple account, and complete the basic settings to enter the app.
Coincidentally, during the experience, Gyro-kun also met Yi Ming, the app developer of "Inspaze", who said that there is no direct connection between "Inspaze" and "Momo", which is a new social application jointly created by Zhiwen Group with a new team, mainly designed using Apple's development tools, rather than Unity and Unreal Engine. He's working with different players to gather feedback on the app experience.
In Inspaze, users can customize their avatar, either by choosing an avatar that comes with the app or by using their own persona to start their new "digital life".
Developer Yi Ming said that in communicating with users, he noticed that most users think that Persona with the FaceTime function is too realistic and not very good-looking, and it is embarrassing to use real avatars in an environment where strangers are mostly socializing. In order to enrich the user experience and make "face-to-face" communication the norm, Inspaze will also have the opportunity to launch Persona's beauty optimization function in the future, bringing users more choices in the form of self-presentation.
Source: Zhiwen Group.
Not only that, users can also freely create their own personalized space, decorate their own "room", and the design of decorations also adopts more realistic 3D modeling assets, so that users can interact with digital content no longer hard.
The living room atmosphere, indoor furniture, wall decoration**, and gramophone ** in the room all support personalized settings, you only need to select the furniture you want to replace the wallpaper floor, and click to replace.
Replace wallpaper, flooring, and curtain patterns (Source: VR Gyro).
Replace the decoration** (Source: VR Gyro).
Adjust the room with a phonograph** (Source: VR Gyro).
In the future, Inspaze users can decorate the space and space content into their own personalized space. In addition, you can invite friends to join your personal space to communicate, and friends can also see the space scene set by the user.
In addition to the user's personal space, Inspaze also provides a public space scene with an enchanted forest theme, where users can communicate, and the personal space and public space can be switched freely.
Enchanted Forest (Source: VR Gyro).
The key to a truly social experience is the feeling of being "close at hand, immersive", which is exactly what XR can provide, and which is incomparable to mobile phones, computers and other devices. And the official said: "Socializing in an immersive virtual space is like experiencing a perfect journey through time and space." ”
Source: Zhiwen Group.
Inspaze users can "party" anytime, anywhere, inviting Vision Pro users from all over the world to join a room and socialize with strangers, allowing users to stay multi-seated while throwing a party**.
Chess game in Inspaze (Source: VR Gyro).
The chess game also shows the attention to detail of the development team, the chess pieces are interactive 3D character models, different chess pieces will speak different voices, and the chess pieces will also walk or bounce when they move and make animations such as swinging swords, which is very interesting.
Combined with Vision Pro's eye tracking and gesture tracking functions, users can manipulate the chessboard in real time, adjust the chessboard to a position that is comfortable for the user, and then click on the chess pieces to display the path of moving the location and manipulate the chess pieces through gestures, so that onlookers can also watch the game and communicate with voices, making the interaction more vivid.
Source: VR Gyroscope.
At present, "Inspaze" is still the first version, and the main social products are fully functional, and now there is only one small game of chess to experience, and we look forward to more interesting games to add gameplay in the future.
In the context of globalization, it is not only the movement of people in a geographical sense, but also the movement of people across languages. Different cultural backgrounds make the communication barriers caused by different languages most obvious in the communication between people.
Voice subtitles are displayed immediately below the user's avatar (Source: VR Gyro).
Since Inspaze is a social app released to Vision Pro users around the world, breaking the language barrier is the first priority.
To this end, "inspaze" provides a real-time translation function, built-in 12 language modes, to achieve synchronous translation without delay, if the user and the user using different languages in the same space, the system will translate the other party's voice into their own language text subtitles in the area below the user image to be displayed, but the current subtitle display is slightly smaller, I hope to further improve in the future.
Inspaze is available on iPhone, allowing users to socialize on the go without missing any important information when they're not wearing a headset. This also means that Inspaze is available with multi-platform support to further engage users in immersive social interactions. Developer Yi Ming seems to be using Inspaze on iPhone to communicate with Gyro-kun and other companions.
Source: Zhiwen Group.
In the process of actual experience, Gyro-jun found that "Inspaze" can also switch between window mode and immersive mode to display the real world at any time, or switch back to the full virtual space with one click to interact with online friends in real time.
Source: VR Gyroscope.
Developer Yi Ming revealed that "Inspaze" also plans to add the function of virtual pets to provide users with more emotional healing experience, and now you can see a small Shiba Inu walking around the user (it is understood that more types of pets will be added in the future, you can name pets, and users can call virtual pets and interact with them through their voices), the functions of these projects are still under development and improvement, which is very exciting.
Source: VR Gyroscope.
As one of Vision Pro's more than 600 native apps on the App Store, Inspaze is taking the lead in taking a new position in social apps, and Inspaze's social circle will continue to expand in the future.
Current mainstream VR social applications include "REC Room", "VRCHAT", "BigScreen", etc. Among them, the well-known "REC Room" has more than 60 million users, "VRCHAT" has nearly 8 million users, and "BigScreen", which focuses on multiplayer immersive movie-watching, also has more than 700,000 users.
It is not difficult to see that the above-mentioned applications mainly provide a space that unites social users by providing a certain type of game or a special scene as the core, and enrich the experience on the basis of the original social functions, and are not limited to casual games, multi-person movie viewing, holding activities, etc., which are essentially not much different from real-world social activities.
The closer voice, motion interaction, and operation habits are to the real world, the more social applications can provide a more "real" experience, and more and more users accept the new experience of XR socialization, and the field of immersive social networking is no longer an island. We look forward to Inspaze breaking new ground in the immersive social space with Apple's Vision Pro.