Conversations feel very much like they would in person. Each participant can upload their image(s), and in our case, posters. We use a photo of our actual meeting room, so our brand is visible throughout the meeting. The cost for a one-day conference, which in our case was a one-month membership plus extra minutes, was negligible.
We have no problem with SpatialChat. They eliminated the problem we had in earlier meetings with compatibility. At our most recent meeting, everyone heard clearly, and we had a problem-free experience.
We are a DOE-funded consortium comprised of nine institutions, which include three federal labs. Our members live and work across the USA. In this covid world, we can safely accomplish our goals of sharing data, solving problems, planning for the future, and getting to know each other using SpatialChat.
The best thing about SpatialChat is in the name - it's the spatial component of the platform. With the ability to customize different rooms and easily control access to them, SpatialChat offers a way for attendees to explore and communicate in unique, flexible environments. My organization used SpatialChat for a post-conference networking event, in which we held discussion events on diversity in the workforce, followed by chats in the "bar" and a live-streamed cocktail mixing event. The flexibility of this platform is only limited by the organizer's creativity and ability to generate graphic content for the background. In my opinion, SpatialChat offers the best way to bring the networking exchanges of in-person conferences to the online age. After many of these events were made digital (or hybrid) due to COVID, there has been a struggle to replace the personal feel of networking interactions. SpatialChat offers the best solution (that I know of) to get a bit more personality and relaxed conversation out of large groups of people that mimics real-life interactions. Zoom and other platforms don't provide easy solutions to chat as small groups when hundreds of people may be online. SpatialChat found a way to capture that perfectly, and I look forward to organizing my next event with this platform.
There are some limits on the customization of the spaces, particularly if you want to plan live streaming events. For example, we had a major delay for a live-streamed drink mixing/trivia event. In the end it was fine, and everyone was happy, but it is best to talk with a SpatialChat representative to make the most of your space. Definitely take the time to customize your space, create your own graphics, design your own events, etc. This may take some time, but it's worth it! The price is high for one day rooms, but it still makes for a fun event, so plan accordingly.
A significant challenge has been connecting early-career professionals and students to businesses and professionals in my field through an informal chatting platform. This platform equalizes the playing field a bit, making group conversations more approachable for everyone, no matter the stage of their career.
Ability to create multiple rooms in Spacial Chat
There is nothing to dislike about Spacial Chat
I used Spacial Chat to host our annual research forum virtually this year. I was able to build a conference space with multiple rooms for different sessions. The forum was scheduled for two days, and each day, we had more than ten live sessions happening simultaneously without any issues :) We had two platforms for presentations, podium and poster presentations. Each podium session and poster session had a separate room. All presentations were delivered live. Each day we had more than 100 people attending sessions. We did not have any issues in Spacial Chat, and the platform worked perfectly. We received overwhelmingly positive feedback from attendees regarding the platform, such as "This is the best virtual platform I have come across among multiple virtual conferences." I loved the Spacial Chat's microphone and megaphone functions. The microphone is much suitable for poster sessions, and you can have multiple poster presentations happening simultaneously in the same room. The megaphone can be used to address the whole room, and this is suitable for moderators of a session or for podium presentation sessions, where you present to the entire audience in the room. One more function I like is the "Stage" room. This feature was used for our award ceremony. The platform is very user-friendly and easy to learn how to navigate. I researched few other platforms before choosing Spacial Chat and among them all Spacial Chat had all features I wanted such as the ability create to multiple rooms, ability to have multiple podium and poster presentations happening in multiple rooms simultaneously, the ability to have mutiple poster presentations happening simultaneously in the same room, and the ability to have more than 20 people in the same room. No other platform I researched had these capabilities and they were also expensive with limited futures. Spacial Chat on the other hand offers all these functions and to top that it was cost effective. All in all, I was impressed with the SpacialChat, and I believe our virtual research forum wouldn't be a success if we had used a different platform. I highly reccomnd Spacial Chat!
Spatial Chat beats Zoom fatigue. We integrated it seamlessly via SSO into our EckoEnterprise platform & it's very popular.
Not much. They are committed to improving the product month on month. Some of the larger pricing plans could be more flexible to cater for events.
It beats Zoom fatigue and integrates well into our user journeys. SSO gives us the ability for a seamless user journey and is in line with our rigid security requirements for our platform.