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Comic-Con said Thursday it is still weighing its options and hopes to make an announcement soon. It is also exploring the possibility of an “online component” should the convention not take place, said spokesman David Glanzer.
* Autographs?! Why not! Obviously they'd be pre-signed and could still be 'raffled off' either for charity or via the good ol' online portal * Panles?! Seems easy enough given how much the world will have been familiarized w/Zoom and other live-streaming services. Some artists & companies can pre-record "panels" with pre-determined questions from a moderator of some sort. Footage can be shown via encryption or whatnot: heck, nowadays many companies release footage immediately following the panel anyway so that might not even be an issue. Fans could live-tweet questions, or maybe even use some other sort of live-meeting streaming app to ask a question from talent.* Meet & Greets? Why not?! Using Zoom or something organizers could set up something were online portal winners can win a pre-signed poster or something and get 15 or 20 seconds to say hi and get a personal chat with talent. Would this take work, planning, etc? Yes: a lot. Can it be done? I think so* Exclusives? Again, why not?! Funco sold their WonderCon exclusives online last week to anyone there's no reason why other companies already planning (and potentially manufacturing) exclusives couldn't go about their business and do online sales: even keep it w/in the online portal to keep it truly exclusive to SDCCI badge-holders* Artist Alley? YES! Artists could still sell their stuff, take sketch commissions, etc. online. It would be more cumbersome, of course, and if you wanted, say, Marv Wolfman's signature you'd have to "settle" maybe for a poster of his choosing vs your Crisis On Infinite Earths #1 (which he signed for me at WonderCon 2019) but it's still something!* Masquerade Ball? I think this could be done virtually.
Many of these things have happened at virtual cons that have already occurred due to covid. The autographs don't have to be pre-signed. You do a video chat with the celeb and they sign it during the video chat. Then they mail it to you. That video chat is the meet and greet.There has already been a VR offsite at comic-con. It happened a few years ago. It was basically a VR mini-con. They had panels, they had celebs to chat with, they had all that con stuff.
Virtual Hall H, and more with no lines. 24/7 exhibit hall and artist alley. The ability to be chosen to ask live questions and such. I would definitely be interested, and pay.
There is no way I'd go if it were virtual. That would be the end of SDCC for me.
Not my first choice, but probably better than nothing. I'd check it out. I might pay money for it (but not anything close to $300) if it helps keeps things running. I'm more likely to pay if they mail a badge and program book...including a swag bag would be nice too. In 2015 I couldn't go but I bought those things from eBay.
I think panels are the part that seem the least worthwhile of a virtual con. At least to me, anyway. The main appeal of comic con panels is seeing the celebs in person. When celebs promote their projects, they do interviews and participate in general panels all the time and we can watch these interviews and panels online easily. There's really nothing special about a virtual con panel compared to these typical interviews and panels.
And I'd be happy to pay a fee to participate in a virtual con. Not $300, but if I can provide some funding to assist in their efforts, and to help them return in future years, I'm good with that.
I'm glad people are coming around. When I brought up virtual comic-con a few weeks ago, people were not enthusiastic.
So how is watching the panels virtually that much different from watching it on a screen in a big hall?
So how is watching the panels virtually that much different from watching it on a screen in a big hall? They could set up something in VR where you are watching the panel on a big VR screen surrounded by other people watching it in VR. People watch movies in VR like that already. The effect is convincing including shushing people. You can also mute them but that takes away from the group experience.