At Ronday, I worked with a team of designers and game developers on a metaverse that was refreshingly and intentionally simple to enable conversation and collaboration within a 3D space. Among the many projects I worked on, I spearheaded projects for implementing text chat as well as teleportation.
In-Space Chat
While Ronday focused on helping users feel like they were in a space rather than an app by focusing on audio and video interactions, it quickly became clear that users also wanted to be able to make announcements, ask questions, provide supplementary information or have side conversations in a different mode. This drove us to add text conversations within a Space with three user categories: everyone in a space, only nearby users, or direct messaging an individual user.
teleportATION (ConCEPT DESIGN)
Enabling normal users (not just admins) to teleport directly to a room, this feature served to ease onboarding users who were attending an event and were unfamiliar with a Space or Ronday itself. Originally a feature reserved for moderators who needed to move instantly to a user when they reported an incident, this concept focused on implementing teleportation for regular users in as natural and unobtrusive a way without disrupting both the teleporting user and the person to which they were teleporting.