hello everyone and welcome back to the keep productive youtube channel today is going to be a
first impressions feature because i'm checking out this app called topio and it's a very interesting
approach on video chat meetings so just to brief some dumb the idea down is you are these avatars
and you're in this sort of world where you can create like your own office your own like areas
to hang out it's a bit like sort of like runescape but you're on a video call at the same time but
for work so i'm gonna download it uh give it a try and give you my early opinions on this
crazy looking app so here i am i actually said download but um actually it uh it is available
through the web browser it's currently saying that i'm on safari beta so just note that apparently
it works better on chrome edge and brave on your desktop so i'm just gonna introduce myself i'm in
the lobby waiting area and you have to state that you're over 16. i'm going to enter it as a guest
but apparently login is required okay take two as you can see here i'm now entering the lobby
um so i need to give access to my camera and my microphone okay so here i am and my microphone has
been added i can choose my color as well let's go okay where am i there i am um i don't know whether
other people can hear me in this world but i've actually played around with it um before but what
you can do is my god what's happening okay so i can actually explore public worlds if i want to
other people's sort of tea house and i think a lot of people are using this for team sort of events
as well and also using it for for example oh okay so this person here am i live with somebody
oh god hello
chernard this is weird um so i guess if you walk away from somebody you sort of get out of there
sort of it doesn't bother them so you can go ahead and create a world so in this case i might create
like keep productive land four cool kids and you can also add an image or youtu choose a url
you can be on so there's there's two plans the free forever plan with up to 25 people
you can add art music and live streams embed any videos moderation but there is a personalized url
one with unlimited amount of people and upload videos from the web and conf fluencer commissions
i'm not sure what that means but apparently i've created a world so we're gonna leave this page
and join my new world okay so keep productive land all right so i'm gonna grant the same permissions
uh let's go so here we are uh where am i there i am hello um so you can see here that i'm uh
i can go over and i can modify things like edit the trees you can move it you can duplicate it
you can choose what each tree has this is so much detail just for like you some people might be like
i just want to get on a video call this is total customization crazy you can choose okay so you can
choose the conversations that are happening you can see other words you can discover other worlds
you can use the marketplace to add things like an events calendar am i buying something okay i want
i want to buy it um have i bought it i don't know free scenes yes i want to buy this events calendar
this is so confusing but essentially i'm getting what i'm doing is i'm changing i'm whoa okay
okay so let's say other people join other people join i can basically view certain streams and i'm
guessing other people would be around me and i can watch stuff with other people okay so i can watch
like twitch and youtube and other events so if i'm like at an event i can see it start seeing a bit
more of the sort of purpose now of it um let's go over to microphone i don't think i'm doing
that okay so ah so here we go i'm broadcasting i was apparently broadcasting them there's a youtube
live stream so the idea is that you're like sort of going into different virtual worlds at the same
time okay so i don't need to create a new one i want to be able to create new items so let's see
whether i can do that okay so ah here we go so i can choose to have a conference ah wow okay so
i've dropped a scene i've done it over the top but let's say this is a conference in which i've
screwed up already i've screwed up okay what i'm gonna do guys i'm actually just gonna find
somebody's else's island and see how they're using it i might go back to the welcome lobby again
portal okay portal to this world i don't think i can bother anybody
brilliant so i'm back and that shannon guy is still there um but i can go over to spatial chat
um i'm not sure what this does okay oh there's a guy working on this laptop over here
i'm guessing he doesn't want to be disturbed oh but he does oh my god hello
hello hello all right what what are your opinions on topia so far
okay are you using it um are you going to use it with your team or anyone like that
okay um i'm doing i'm doing a youtube review now for this app
uh is it alright if you're in the video thanks man sorry
uh keep productive
okay cheers man thank you i might just come here more often
okay so that's quite cool okay i get i get the idea i think i get the idea now um a bit more
it's more like you go and explore but imagine if you had a whole company sometimes you have to use
stuff to be able to like okay oh i'm entering a private area so you can create like private areas
oh fireworks is going off i was really scared then you can explore other tokyo worlds here
you can customize everything this is i think what they were talking about a lot is the customization
you can do quite a lot of like for example be able to change what buildings can do what private
zones can do what's streaming in certain areas click here to create your own tokyo
i don't want to click there okay still working i haven't been able to talk to him yet but this
is quite cool so there's a dance floor okay so this is cool so it it brings together the sort of
at this point this review is so awful
so um
i'm telling nobody about how to use this app
i'm gonna go run through the things that are on the side here so i can do a world map i
can go over to other portals ah here we go so this is what the world map looks like in total
you can see the activities and nearby activities that are on this one doesn't have any and i can
see other portals um oh so that's a good example somebody's got a portal for moments improv so
improv community it's like an online space so it could be used for like meeting up in sort of more
of a a relaxed manner let's go visit another world see if there's any other people knocking about
um citizens it looks like most of the communities are actually like sort of empty at the moment
but i think it's because it's so new this tool they did one for did i see something about the
tokyo olympics but you could have one for an event that you have coming up which would be quite cool
i did see somebody else had joined so maybe i can um maybe i can meet somebody again hello
i can oh i can i can do something with my character
i can pretend to dance think this guy just left us on anyway i think that's the end of the review um
let's have a look at pricing and things like that because i don't wanna i don't wanna
like just completely skip by the actual practicalities of this application let's
just get the pricing up okay so it looks like you get free for 25 people forever so if you
want to customize the world sort of add all the regular sort of customized streaming you can also
unlimited people nine pound nine dollars per month you can have custom layouts broadcast video to all
guests so you can have guests there as well which is quite cool upload spatial words to
your world and commissions pay you monthly or cancel and if you want a one-time event
you can contact them which gives them hd faster bandwidth and but it's more suited for those who
are sort of running an event or a conference or have their own digital community and they want
to be able to meet people um it's quite a cool little sort of lineup for it actually i came
into this going this is such a dumb idea and i actually coming out of it going i quite like it
but only because like i've met a couple of well met one person one human but i actually like how
it works in terms of their interactivity if you're looking for a regular zoom call
this is probably not for a team there's probably more for conference events and things like that
in the remote world and virtual world than it is for like you know sticking on a regular sort of
thing but anyway folks i hope you enjoyed today's video let me know if what you think of topio and
check it out below anyway guys thank you so much i'll talk to you all very soon cheerio
you