Chunks in need for multi user editing

Chunks by Facepunch studio

Facepunch Studio, the team behind  Garry's Mod  (W) and its 10 millions of copies sold has just showed something that's probably the closest to a "killer app" we've seen for HTC Vive headsets (W) yet. It's called Chunks and it looks like Minecraft creative mode on steroïds (and very obviously in Virtual Reality). Also featuring the perfect soundtrack to start the week: 

Exciting isn't it ? But here's a (hopefully temporary) let down: no multiplayer for now. Here's what they have to say about it:

Online Multiplayer

This is something we definitely want to try implementing, but we can’t make any guarantees. We’ll certainly give it a go at some point, because the prospect of being able to build worlds with friends has too much potential to pass up.

Indeed it has. But clearly it's not an easy task, especially with all the new features seen in the video that makes Chunks look sometimes more like a tool application than a game. Real time collaboration block per block is one thing, but once you give the player the ability to edit large amount of block in one hand gesture, new problems arise.

We're very interested in Virtual and Mixed Reality here. We think it makes the Real Time collaboration even more of an obvious must have feature. The first I've seen this Holoens video and the CAD part with bike I immediately imagined that if I was the guy I would want to fine tune the tank size after she made here suggestion. That would require concurrent user editing and that's clearly one of the thing we think our Flip technology has a great potential for.

It's an exciting time to work in the field of tool application, don't you think?

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