SpatialChat Reviews & Product Details

We moved to Spatial at the beginning of the pandemic and started using it for 3 purposes: 1. virtual office; 2. showroom for our projects; and 3. training room. It was an amazing way to keep the team connected and bring clients to meet us.

And now, with the new Grid functionality, the solution has become amazing because it allows informal get-togethers and more formal meetings with clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hummm... The communication radius between people could be a little smaller, allowing a little more privacy in conversations.

Some management features are missing, such as user view control and tool usage report Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

he features I like the most:

Customizable room for any type of features you can activate: megaphone, screen share, microphone...

Customizable backgrounds with the opacity slider

iFrame is a powerful feature to elevate your room experience.

Stage new UI/UX with more engaging features with participants.

Last but not least, Spatial has a nice and helpful growing community, which is key nowadays! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Register and login experience should be simplified

- Register and log in without creating an account Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is the best platform for bringing the magic of a IRL event into the virtual world (lots of possibilities) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hoping there will soon be a better music integration feature - we will often include a dance party room! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As others here have said, it's fun watching people "settle in" and learn how to use the space: they are usually delighted! It does take a few minutes though, so you'll want to plan a suitable opening activity.

Personally, I enjoy carefully choosing the background to be ideal for what I'm planning. For example, in a recent event we used a background with six tables, each with a different coloured carpet underneath. That meant we could say, "To discuss Topic A, move to the blue table," and so on.

As the event continued, we noticed a pattern of people moving their avatars to "sit at tables" when they intended to engage in conversation, and to leave them in-between the tables when they were looking around for activity partners, or just mingling. It was delightful, though not surprising, to see the impact of the background metaphor.

And then, we changed the background image on the fly. Suddenly, the group felt whisked into space, with no tables or fixed points to orientate around. What a difference! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

"Share screen" is a bit awkward, especially when several groups are working in parallel in different parts of the space Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SpatialChat is a beautiful experiment of how an online class can happen. You can't compare to other alternatives. SpatiolChat allows students to talk among themselves in the class. Another feature that I like is multiple share screens. No other conference software allowed me to do so. For coding courses, it's an invaluable feature. I would say that SpatialChat is the first tool that enhanced my classes better than my real world classroom teaching. I felt a better teacher using SpatialChat than in some classrooms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only feature that I miss in SpatialChat is a dedicated app for mobile devices. The website works on mobile devices, but it could do better if it had a specific app to work with multiple Android and Apple devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Spatial Chat offers a much more organic "happy hour" experience than a typical video chat software. I like that you can change the backgrounds of the breakout rooms. While it takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master, the user learning curve is far less than Gather. There is a bit of a time difference between the account team and folks in the US, but our new account manager Anna was superb! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While the platform works, the user experience is not good on web browsers other than Google Chrome, and mobile/tablet users seemed hopeless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SpatialChat provides a virtual space where you can meet with friends or co-workers. My favorite feature is that you can share the room, and the volume in the conversation will amplify or reduce as you get closer or further respectively. You can also share your screen, or a video that will play like if it were in a screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In general I like the tool very much and I believe it's well made. But I wish I had a better understanding of how the data is used and how secure the platform is. E.g., if I'm meeting with co-workers, I'd be thinking of what information we share through the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.