Video meetings are now available

ville · October 21, 2020, 1:27pm

Awesome! Thank you so much.

How many users does it support atm?

jan · October 21, 2020, 1:29pm

Thanks, 4 simultaneous participants in the Standard plan and 10 in Plus and perpetual.

ville · November 13, 2020, 12:19pm

Ok the response from the clients has been decent so far. I’m actually confident we can make this feature work on trade fairs as it is - as long as we only add it to meeting room or showroom scenes that are accessible through the fair scene.

What we need is to have the ability to track meeting minutes used by a given scene. Atm only the total is showing. That way we could also charge them based on the number used.

Vladan · November 15, 2020, 1:16pm

Hi @jan,

Did a browser show you a popup asking for permission to share your camera? If you accidentally permanently refuse this permission to a website, it is hard to revert this setting.

You have given us this notice, but it is also necessary to register visitors who have less experience with Shapespark.

Is it possible to register before opening the presentation?

3D4U_Anne_van_Zwol · November 16, 2020, 7:50am

Hi. Can you provide a video showcasing this functionality?

wojtek · November 16, 2020, 4:49pm

@Vladan, I am not sure I understand you correctly. What do you mean by registering before opening the presentation?

We don’t have such a video. If you would like to try it on your own, please enter the example meeting from this forum post: Preview: meetings in Shapespark scenes

Vladan · November 16, 2020, 5:55pm

What do you mean by registering before opening the presentation?

I would like you to change the order.

If the 11th visitor appears, I would like you to suggest him to enter the presentation (instead of the error message) to wait in line for a meeting there, instead of leaving the presentation and the meeting.

jorgearq · November 16, 2020, 7:21pm

a waiting room is very necessary

Vladan · November 16, 2020, 9:36pm

Please replace this screen

with redirection.
Instead #meeting-key=SaTJgLYTxIc1UfvK please #autoplay&help

I think it’s a better solution. Better than adding captions:

Our web store is currently closed, but you can view our goods
The grand opening of the art gallery is over
The fair is over, look what it looked like

Thanks!

Tom · November 19, 2020, 10:23am

Video meetings are great, and it would be even greater if you can upgrade some of its functionality:

better avatars (or customizable, with the ability to upload faces)
the audio volume changes according to the participant’s distance (greater distance - quiet sound)
the ability to have more than 10 participants, but without conversations, just avatars, and than you can choose to talk to somebody

this would be great for virtual events and clubs

jan · November 19, 2020, 11:44am

Thank you for the feedback. From your list, we are working now on better avatars.

Ahmed_Solis · February 25, 2021, 6:29pm

Hi,

Is it possible to have meetings in my scene hosted on my own server?

wojtek · February 26, 2021, 8:52am

No, meeetings need a custom backend, and are available only for scenes hosted on our infrastructure.

Ahmed_Solis · February 28, 2021, 7:54pm

Alright, thanks for the aide

Vladan · February 28, 2021, 10:18pm

Hi @wojtek,

It is not visible in the editor, and it is not possible to fine-tune the position of the Trigger (sphere / sprite) for the Meeting projection screen. It can be seen at the Meeting.

wojtek · March 1, 2021, 1:39pm

Thanks for the report. You’re right. We’ll look for a solution to this issue.

Vladan · March 1, 2021, 8:33pm

Hi @wojtek

Have you considered the option of video meetings for our clients?

They need their account, only one place on the cloud and minutes to pay for themselves. They do not need Shapespark applications.

I understand that they can temporarily involve me in the team so that I can transfer the scene to their account.

What are your prices for them in situations like this?

wojtek · March 2, 2021, 4:06pm

Hi @Vladan,

We don’t have special plans for clients of our users. If they wanted to manage scenes and meetings on their own they would need one of the regular subscription plans.

Vladan · March 3, 2021, 10:15am

@wojtek, I respect you, but

In competition with your favorable terms,

we can hardly succeed in selling our scenes and asking clients to pay 99 $ a month for something they don’t use.

Please, reconsider your custom offer.

wojtek · March 3, 2021, 4:31pm

@vladanpop, thanks for the feedback. Please take into account that when you Buy a longer meeting you get one meeting link for a scene provided by Shapespark, so it’s not directly comparable to managing multiple meetings for your own scene. By the way, meetings are included in the Standard plan (49 USD), they don’t require the Plus plan (99 USD).

Would pre-generating a set of meetings and handling the links to the client work for your use case? You can set a limit for the number of minutes for each meeting link separately.

We can offer custom plans for certain requests, but unfortunately we cannot offer a favourable reply to every request. Thank you for your understanding.