# Hyperfy Discord - 2025-07-29

## Overall Discussion Highlights

### Platform Updates
- **Version 0.15.0 Released**: Major update announced with significant UX improvements and new features including improved mobile chat, smooth movement animations, and gaze-based head tracking. [ash]
- **Moderation Tools**: New player list menu with builder toggle, teleport, mute/unmute, and kick capabilities. [ash]
- **Voice Chat Options**: Users can now choose between disabled, spatial, or global voice chat. [ash]

### Avatar & VRM Development
- **VRM Integration Success**: Gh0sTt👻🪄🐘 shared their positive experience creating VRM models for their Ghost Buddy NFT v2 community, noting the ease of adding 3D elements.
- **Wallet Connectivity**: Discussion about implementing wallet connectivity to populate game boards with user-owned avatar models. [maximus]
- **Avatar Repository**: Reference to m3-org/avatars GitHub repository as a resource for avatar implementation. [maximus]

### Cross-Platform Functionality
- **Cross-verse Communication**: Development of functionality allowing communication across different metaverses and devices for "the forge" platform. [Lastraum]
- **Performance Improvements**: Buffered interpolation of networked players to reduce jitter and amortized avatar distance-based rate calculations. [ash]

### Gaming Applications
- **Game Development**: Discussions about creating specialized game sets, including a Star Wars Holographic Chess Set. [𝕽𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖓]
- **Timer and Leaderboard**: Interest in adding timing and scoring features, possibly for a race application. [Pete]

## Key Questions & Answers

1. **Q**: "What stack are you using?" [Gh0sTt👻🪄🐘]  
   **A**: "We're using the forge platform (theforgecore.xyz)" [Lastraum]

2. **Q**: Question about community calls  
   **A**: They occur biweekly

## Community Help & Collaboration

- **VRM Model Enhancement**: Maximus helped Gh0sTt👻🪄🐘 with suggestions for enhancing VRM models for gaming, specifically recommending using the GitHub repo (m3-org/avatars) to swap in custom VRM based on project avatars in user wallets.

- **Documentation Improvements**: The platform documentation has been restructured with improvements to help developers better understand and implement features. [ash]

## Action Items

### Technical
- Implement wallet connectivity to populate game boards with user-owned avatar models [maximus]
- Adapt to buffered interpolation of networked players [ash]
- Implement the new backup script for automated world backups [ash]
- Update applications to utilize new file field shortcuts [ash]

### Feature Development
- Add built-in audio app with spatial trigger box toggle [𝕽𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖓]
- Develop cross-verse chat functionality [Lastraum]
- Create timer and leaderboard functionality [Pete]
- Develop Star Wars Holographic Chess Set with animation and audio [𝕽𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖓]

### Documentation
- Review restructured documentation with improvements [ash]

### Unresolved Questions
- "Will hyp apps always be one model? or will it ever be possible to export an entire world (with many apps inside of it) as one single hyp app?" [shmoji]
- "Wen built in audio app with spatial trigger box toggle?" [𝕽𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖓]