Show HN: Online Town – A better way to gather online
Hi HN!One of the creators here.It's a cross between Zoom x Pokemon. You only get audio and video from people you're standing next to, and as you walk away from them, the video fades away and the audio drops off.With current video chat apps, you lose many of the dynamics of real life meetups. In particular, you lose the ability to have multiple people in the same shared space having multiple conversations.In real life events, you can talk to a few people at a time while still being able to quickly go from one conversation to the next. With video chat, you have to talk to everyone at the same time.Online Town is meant to fix this.The way it works is, when you're near someone you get their audio and video, when you walk away from them their video drops off, and their audio fades out.So you can have multiple conversations within a single virtual space.Join me in the public room! Would love to get your all thoughts on it :)