IMVU Reviews

1. Jesse Li Starseed

   | Owner at Starseed Productions | about 2 years ago
   Immersiveness and Realism is not always based on the Platform

   In most virtual worlds, whether on a 2D screen or 3D headset, the platform provides the means, but most of the userbase provides the "content". I am no stranger to 3D virtual. I was on the very first one called Cybertown back in 1999, and have accounts in Second Life and Sansar. To be honest, I had tried IMVU over a decade ago, but it seemed marketed to teens and the younger generation. But it is now 2022, and IMVU has made great strides in graphic quality, creator tools (IMVU Studio), and even V-COIN, the first cryptocurrency approved by the SEC for use in virtual worlds and convertable to real life currency. The bottom line though is the quality of the content, but especially that of the IMVU "avatars", which I have to say "still" greatly surpass most of the avatar looks available in standard 3D VR headset platforms. The content available for objects, rooms, and outfits, poses, movements, audio and even shadow/shade rendering is leaps and bounds better than it was many years ago, and much more is available in the IMVU Store for purchase. IMVU is now a subsidiary company of "Together Labs", has procured 35 million dollars in venture funding, and was ranked a few years ago as the Best Virtual World Game for Realistic Graphics for 2020 by Lifewire, a prominent tech site. I choose to use IMVU as a platform because it is a very good quality one, both technically and socially, and have developed ways of marketing and streaming music and video to and from online broadcasting sites in conjunction with this platform.

   🏁 Competitors: Second Life, Sansar, VRChat, Anakin

   👍 Pros:    Quality of content|Ease of use|Large selection of content|Two client platforms available for computer|Phone app|Cryptocurrency|Creator tools|Custom content can be made by users who are creators|Age verification required for adult content (ap)|: free, or paid-subscription vip tier levels|Greeters program|Live chatrooms can have thousands in the room|Furniture (tvs & screens) in live chatrooms can stream audio/video content directly from youtube

   👎 Cons:    Not a true 3d vr world, like vrchat|Not available for 3d vr headset|Limit of 10 avatars in a chatroom, although more can be invited or pulled in

Google Open Source Reviews

IMVU mentions (1)

• Alternatives to Everskies

  Games I don't know enough about that can be played in a browser that DON'T have forums or forum-like features: MovieStarPlanet2 (made by the same company as MSP1, so expect it to be just as pay to win and unsafe as the first game) Games I don't know enough about that don't have forums (as far as I'm aware) that you have to download: Habbo Hotel IMVU Hotel Hideaway The Sims 4 (it's free and lets you dress up... Source: about 1 year ago

Google Open Source mentions (7)

• OpenAI no longer Open. "We were wrong [...] I fully expect that in a few years it’s going to be completely obvious to everyone that open-sourcing AI is just not wise."

  Open AI's work is based off of Google's research paper. Google believes in open source! https://opensource.google/ Google will save us. Google will make their AI open source. Their motto is "Don't be evil"! ... But I'm still waiting for their source code of YouTube, Gmail, drive, maps, docs, sheets, forms, search, ads, translate, sites, etc. Source: over 1 year ago

• "My Reaction to Dr. Stroustrup’s Recent Memory Safety Comments"

  It's not on google github/their open source git host(for comparison, the canonical go repo is), their readme makes no mention of google, wikipedia says "The language is expected to have a 1.0 release in 2024 or 2025.[4]",. Source: over 1 year ago

• Questions about the controller

  Google would have to open source the controller firmware for people to find a way to make Bluetooth work, but there are no discontinued Google products on opensource.google at all. Source: over 1 year ago

• controller software open source?

  Https://opensource.google/ is not listing any dead Google products my dude. Source: over 1 year ago

• There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask

  And side note, don't bring up both MS and Google when both are well known to make use of FOSS. Google has an entire page about how they both make use of and release OSS. Source: about 2 years ago