AltspaceVR Releases Updates to Enable Ticketed Events, Private Meetings and Conferences.

We’ve received a record number of inquiries from people and companies looking to use VR during the Covid-19 crisis. Today, our team is releasing new ways for users to create ticketed events, private meetings and conferences, by using platforms like Eventbrite and Patreon in tandem with AltspaceVR. We especially wanted to help artists, event-hosts, speakers, comedians, poets, and musicians during a time when live events are paused. See below for how to host a private event in AltspaceVR. With these features you can host an event in AltspaceVR that give you the following tools:

• Presentations 
• Rooms made for crowds of up to 70 people
• FrontRow technology for events with more than 70 people 
• Host tools (mute-all, hand-raise, stage-blocking, moderation tools )
• Support for Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, Samsung GearVR, HTC Vive, WMR
• Support for 2D on PC

Introducing New Groups Feature 

Our Groups Feature gives hosts the ability to create a VR space that is open to an approved list of guests. Hosts can manually add any emails they’d like to grant access to their space. Here’s how you can use this feature to host events, meetings and conferences:

1. On your browser, go to https://altvr.com and log into your account.
2. Find the “More” pull-down menu.
3. Select “Groups”

4. Once in the Groups page, you can see a list of groups that you are a part of or an admin of. 

5. Click on the “Create” button to make a new Group.
6. Fill out fields to create group.

7. Send an email to all attendees and have them create an AltspaceVR account using the same email address. They can either make an AltspaceVR account in-world or on our website.

How to Create a Private Event From a Group 

1. Once in the Member or Admin page, select the group you want to access.
2. As an Administrator You can modify all the options you configured previously to create the Group. Go to the “Edit” button on the group’s page to access them.
3. Adding Other Admins for a Group: When editing, you now have the option to add other users as Admins to help manage the group.
4. Note, this must be the AltspaceVR username for the user and not their account e-mail.
5. Click “Create Event” button.

How to attend a Group Event, as an Invitee 

1.Open the Main Menu:

2. Select the “Events” button at the bottom of the Menu.
3. At the top, look for “My Events”
4. Find the event by its “Name” provided by the Event creator in the main view with the tile images. Select it to enter the Event if it is live.

How To find the Group World (Commons):

1. Open the Main Menu:
2. Select the “Worlds” button at the bottom of the Menu.
3. At the top, look for “My Worlds.”
4.  Find the name of your group and select it to enter the Group World.

How to use Patreon and Eventbrite to Host a Ticketed VR Event: 

You can use Patreon, Eventbrite to create ticketed events in Altspace. To do this, you will need to either create a list of your users’ e-mail addresses or export that information from your payment platform.

Creating a list: Utilize a spreadsheet program to create a single column with all the e-mail addresses. Once you have this, do the following:

1. Create or edit your group.
2. Find the “Email Allow List” field.
3. Copy and paste the column into the field.
4. We are developing a *.csv importer to make this process easier.

Importing a list: Platforms like Patreon and Eventbrite allow you to export a *.csv file (comma separated value) that has a dedicated “e-mail” column. You can select this column for use. Once you have this available, the steps are mostly the same, they are:

1. Create or edit your group.
2. Find the “Email Allow List” field.
3. Select the e-mail column from the exported *.csv.
4. Copy and paste the column into the field.
5. We are developing a *.csv importer to make this process easier.

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AltspaceVR Releases Updates to Enable Ticketed Events, Private Meetings and Conferences.