Hanging Out With Your Past Self In VR: Time-Shifted Avatar Replication Using Kafka Streams

In this talk, we’ll show how AltspaceVR developed a Kafka Streams based solution to perform real time mirroring, capture, and playback of networked avatars in a shared VR environment. For intermediate to advanced Kafka Streams users, we’ll cover some common pitfalls, lessons learned, and design patterns that helped us create a streaming application that provides features our users call magic.