SpatialChat Reviews & Product Details

Its functionality to have activities such as World Cafés which are a fun way to engage the students in a language class.

Sometimes it takes up a lof of data and those with weak connectivity often have problems connecting to it.

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Individual attendees have more freedom to move around and chat with other attendees without disrupting the room or having to rely on the host to create breakout rooms.

There are some audio issues on occasion, noise in the background for some users but not all.

My nonprofit has virtual events with 30+ attendees, and it's difficult for everyone to be an active participant. Spatial Chat allows us to self-select into small groups for conversation.

SpatialChat has proper directions in making communications suitable. More so, SpatialChat creates appropriate structures that foster and support work. The career development from SpatialChat is also outstanding, with adequate training possibilities. Finally, SpatialChat is friendly, reserved, and capable to offer assistance.

SpatialChat has powerful and concise way in making companies have a virtaully supported communications and work station. Further, the ideas that SpatialChat supports are outstanding and digital.

SpatialChat is a fearless application that fosters work and ensures virtual support. More so, SpatialChat has numerous options that balance communications and ensure innovation and other ideas are swiftly enhanced. Lastly, customer relations are smoothly facilitated by SpatialChat.

I love how much flexibility there is to the rooms. I love that people can move freely. It's such a great platform for social gatherings.

I have a question about accessibility for folks with older technology and slower internet. There is also a learning curve for newbies.

Gathering virtually in more flexible ways, which I think SpatialChat excels at.

The near and far feature to raise and lower the conversation volume mimics being in a real room. I thought it was really fun.

Only a few side chats available. Would be nice to have a "cone of silence" option to only have 2 people talk in case we need to share something private.

Social distancing has become an issue. It's a interactive way to have social time rather than standard office-like video calls...

The interactiveness is excellent! The usability of talking to people near you and everybody in the room is fantastic. I find it very useful for group dynamics, remote happy hours, and MOB development.

It could be easier to find yourself in the room when there are too many people there. Also, I'm not sure how this is a constraint on my version, but it is hard to customize the background to something more related to my company or the event.

Events in which I need a lot of integration: Remote Happy Hours, MOB development, group dynamics. The benefits are a better integration of the participants and higher dynamism among groups.

I like that this simulates the flow and transition of a poster session or reception mixer. It allows separate small group conversations and movement through the room, and between rooms. The audio and video do well, and the broadcast video feature is nice for larger groups. Being able to customize backgrounds is great.

The room capacity limits make it so you have to funnel everyone to a stage room or to separate rooms and use the broadcast feature to communicate instructions for everyone. When you start, the video bubbles are small, so you have to Zoom in a fair amount in order to see people better.

Zoom breakout rooms are clunky for replicating reception-type events with flow and transitions and small-group conversations. SpatialChat solves that, and allows us to have very important interactions between applicants to the graduate school program, and the faculty and current students at the institution so that the collegiality of the institution can be displayed even in a virtual setting.

We used SpatialChat for an informal get-together of our Alumni Association. We managed to mingle with around 100 persons in different rooms. We really liked the backgrounds you can choose from and the audio feature that allows you only to hear people close by.

When the meeting started, we had experienced some lagging, but afterward, it turned out to be caused by my pc.

Social get-together

Easiness of use, interactive nature of the system, customization options, proximity sound, technical support

Nothing specific, just to mention that most of the standard backgrounds are very dark,it would be nice to have more lighter backgrounds.

Spatial chat helped us to expose our research community to new developments in our organisation by giving a platform to people to present their work and engage in conversation on the presented posters. It also solved the issue of time zones, as it is easy to have available at all times.

SpatialChat is a fantastic platform for community engagement. Participants pick it up very fast and enjoy the ability to casually enter conversations in a way that is so similar to in-person events. Congratulations on a great platform and intuitive functionality. Note: It is also easy to set up from the backend as well.

SpatialChat has promised me that more analytics are coming soon. Fingers crossed! It is a great platform, but for business use, more analytics are required to ensure we understand who is coming to our events and allow us the opportunity to follow up afterward.

SpatialChat allows us to run an event where interaction amongst attendees is paramount. The platform focused on this over webinar-style presenting (though a 'stage' room is also available and works very well!).

This platform gave me the most room to create the immersive event space I wanted along with having spatial audio technology. Unlike the majority of competitor platforms, the UI doesn't look like a 2D video game is also is a win. The ability to use Youtube videos as the background was something I've been hoping to do prior to finding Spatial.chat and this platform allowed for it. It took them a while to update their free plan to increase from 50 users instead of the 4 ppl max they previously allowed, which allowed more folks to test it out with a larger group (for me, allowing clients to test out a first prototype of an event) and then clients could subscribe to the paid plan to host their event. With all of the events I've hosted, from personal ones to client commissioned events, everyone commented on how well it mimicked the visceral experience of being in a room with other people! The most design/planning intensive one I created and managed was one where I was commissioned to host a live musical performance within a room that was set up like that of a small venue performance space. There were a few logistics to plan and to backstage stage-manage, but it was well worth it to see the audience watching a live performance while sending out emojis from the audience... I have a sample reel for anyone who is interested to see it as it will give you an idea of what is possible beyond the basics.

I wish there is a waiting room feature like that Zoom, Butter, Appear.in, etc.. where folks can knock to join the first room set for their arrival OR allowing rooms to have a Doorbell option that be turned on would help host/facilitator be aware of new arrivals. It would be nice if there were layer options, bring forward/send backward to help with managing content shared in the space. For some with older harware/computers, there were some challenges in getting the platform to work smoothly, so it requires me to design a pre-event experience to educate and prep attendees to help them have the best experience.

It allows me to create virtual social experiences that facilitate a sense of being together, one that helps our brains to feel a sense of connection and being in a different environment while having creative fun right at our desk. I was also able to team other apps for playing games or watching videos together, making it fun for me to design experiences everytime.

If you have been using Zoom (or any similar apps) for your virtual networking then you need to switch to Spatial Chat immediately! Spatial Chat gives the virtual attendees freedom and autonomy to move freely from room to room, and each room can be different from the last. The amazing thing about Spatial Chat is of course the spatial sound feature, which mimics what you would experience when physically present in a room with lots of groups of people having separate conversations. I can't wait to see how Spatial Chat expands its offerings over the next few years and I hope that it can change people's perceptions on virtual events!

There is always room for improvement so I would like to suggest some things which could make SpatialChat even better: - Ability to invite participants on stage in the Stage Room - 'Buildable scenes' - customisable options for building the layout of a room, rather than having to use a whole template from the library provided or upload your own background -

Being able to provide exciting and interactive networking opportunities for event participants without using Zoom (which, frankly, everyone is bored of!). We have realised the benefits of being able to provide customised spaces for networking, all from the comfort of our own desks.

Virtual space where you can mingle with others freely

I cannot change the audio setting and cannot use a headset on my PC.

We hold monthly meetups on Google Meet but could not do breakout on it, so we have decided to use SpatialChat.

SpatialChat works great and is very well documented. But thet greatest thing is the many kinds of interaction you can have. Not only is it a no-brainer to have people interact in smaller groups, you can also do many other kinds of interactions based on where the participants place their avatar. That allows for all kinds of interesting interactions - I have the feeling that I'm still scratching the surface of the possibilities

The only thing that took me a lot of time is finding truly good examples of interactions. Yes, there are Youtube videos, but most of these videos aren't very helpful and the really good examples are spread out across quite a few of these videos. I was in a live demo as well, but that was with only two other people and we never got to the really interesting interaction. This also makes it harder to explain the awesome potential of SpatialChat to others.

The problem/challenge SpatialChat could solve is the lack of truly rich interactions with live video online on the one hand and an not-to-hard learning curve on the other. Really getting the hang of SpatialChat does take some time in your session before people go beyond the very basics of just talking and also start using their position consciously. But once people do get it, you can use the canvas to show all kinds of things and have people interact with it and ask questions by moving their avatar. Especially with a training that requires a lot of interactions, you're not bound by the many limitations of Zoom-like environments where breakout rooms is a cumbersome ritual where you suddenly lose the group as a whole.

Immersive yet easy to use and without the mean of sophisticated tool

sometimes it get slow or you have some people without mic

Exhibition during covid19 lockdown, when you couldn't get a crowd of people together

Easy to use, good looking platform. Interactive. Flexible.

Lack of extensive admin portal for companies running multiple spaces.

Technical updates. New features.

You can use the same link forever, there is no need to always create a new call. You can customize your space just like in real life.

You can add images but you can't rotate them, the background is set in an angle but if you add pictures they are not in the same angle. The platform is a bit heavy, some computers have trouble staying in the call.

I have more communication and participation with my team, we can stay in the same room and if needed we can simply turn our mics on and talk to each other.

The open, floating way to communicate; you can "walk by" a group like in real life.

Being not really sure how many participants the system can handle.

Socializing; the evening part of an online conference. Also developed a "group hug" where people quickly circle a group of other participants - fun :-)

The platform is intuitive and requires little practice to get the guests familiar with it. There is also no need to create an account before entering the event, which is a plus when introducing a new platform. It offers some powerful networking features, such as quickly customizing the space the guests will evolve in to encourage conversations around key themes. The capacity to search guests and being transported directly to them is also very conducive to efficient networking. In the words of one of my attendees: "Awesome platform to use for an event like this. Liked it much more than breakout rooms. Really personalized the conversations."

It is PRICEY for a public institution. We will have to use it with parsimony or to find sponsors in the future, which makes events longer and harder to organize. It was missing a couple of features i.e. a way for our key representatives to be easily identifiable without giving them high access privileges. The search function could also be improved so that people are searchable not just by their name but also by their description.

SpatialChat is allowing us to organize events that include a strong networking component, as guests are able to move seamlessly between conversations without the event's team involvement. This tool is also allowing us to create networking experiences across wide geographies in a region of the world that is sparsely populated.

The proximity feature gives a "real-life" experience, it's useful to have the option to talk to just one person or a close group. Customizing the background is very helpful to set the mood and embrace the identity of the organization. Is great that people can intervene the space by adding gifs, images and other elements. Asking for a personal description is great to break the ice.

I would appreciate a Spanish option. Also, I think the tutorial could give more information about the different features, about the range of the microphone and what is the megaphone for example.

Creating bonding moments for a remote team is hard, Spatial Chat has really helped us to connect our different volunteers and give them a fun and interactive experience.