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[Suggestion] Choose between Party voice chat or App/Game voice Chat

dreatern
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One of the major difficulties of using VR in group with friends is the communication.
There is no way to send messages or talk to a friend other than in party which is very limited in number of members.

Many games or applications have their own voip, If we start an application while we are in party, a message appears saying that it will no longer be possible to use party audio.

How about adding an option to choose between keeping party audio or using app integrated voip?

Exactly how it works on playstation network, xbox live and steam.

Not all multiplayer games has support to oculus rooms to start the app from there and put everyone in the same lobby and keep the conversation.
So we need to open the application and the party communication is lost, from there we have to send invitation to someone to enter and this may not work and there is no way to communicate the party members.
Sometimes a friend will be invited to a party but the members are in a game with the party audio muted and the new member can not hear or communicate to know how and where to join.
(Oculus is no longer showing which application a friend is running in the friends list on oculus home, just opening the oculus store without the headset will show that)

Also, many apps/games have really poor voice audio quality and/or voip system.  So, it would be more interesting to have an option that keeps the oculus party audio, regardless of the internal app voip system.

If you choose to keep party audio, the internal voip system of the app will be ignored, giving the preference to the oculus party voip.
In the party menu (inside the universal menu), we could choose between using the oculus party's communing system or using the app system, like we can turn the voice on or off.
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