Using federated VR software to create a new form of music discovery

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Continuing the side discussion from Discoverability on the Fediverse and Thought Dump, about federated VR software:

The other app linked on that Delightful List, Prismic, appears to be in active development, with changes made to the repo as recently as a couple of weeks ago. But yes, Immers Space does appear to have stalled, which is a shame. I’m curious about whether the reasons were to do with flagging morale, technical difficulties, lack of funding to pay devs, or something else.

As a general comment on the prospects of reviving stalled Free Code software projects …

  1. People to continue development of the code. Ideally the original team, or a new team with some initial mentorship from at least one of the original devs, to help them learn their way around the codebase.

  2. Expressions of interest in using it for a practical project, so there’s a new motivation to continue development. In the case of Immers Space, something like;

Funding isn’t necessarily required, and throwing money at a codebase doesn’t always lead to working software, or a sustainable open source project. But sometimes it does help. Particularly if the need to work a paying job is what pulled the original team away from working on it.

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Do you know if there are any examples of Prismic in use that are close to some of the stuff we’ve talked about?

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Prismic is as new to me as it is to you. But generally, speaking, it’s quicker and easier to build a prototype on top of pre-existing work like the Immers Space or Prismic codebase than to start from scratch. Maybe the Prismic developer is a music fan, and would find it motivating to apply the work they’re doing to a project like the one you have in mind?

Side note: I wonder if the Prismic developers are even aware of the work already done on Immers Space?

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I think they are on Mastodon.