Draft: View the worlds and interact with people in VR without being in VR via a Discord Inward Portal

Context and Problem Statement

I want to see the worlds and interact with people in VR, without being in VR myself.

Describe the proposed option and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

A Discord voice/video call bot would allow players within the virtual world and outside to interact with each other.

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, or diagrams

This would be a bot client that connects to at least one server shard, and joins a Discord voice call, using WebRTC APIs to communicate voice and video data from Godot into discord.

Positive Consequences

Growing engagement with Groups

Negative Consequences

Requires Discord

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

Players can stream using OBS or discord screen sharing, but this requires players to do it, and only provides uni-directional communication.

Is there a reason why this should be core and done by us?

It should be a standalone project based on Groups, but not core. The WebRTC dependency, if needed, would make integration difficult.

References

https://discord.com/

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