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Ask HN: Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com)

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Re: Ask HN: Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com)

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Post by hme »

Caligula wrote: post #2

I run ubuntu. Got this message: ASSEMB'LIVE requires one the following operating systems: Windows or MacOS X. Please switch on one of these to go further.

Yes, we use Unity3D, a web plugin to run hardware accelerated 3D in the browser. They don't support Linux yet, but now that they raised a huge amount of money from Sequoia they might work on it (if they want to support ChromeOS they'd better hury)

Re: Ask HN: Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com)

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Post by olalonde »

hme wrote: post #4
Caligula wrote: post #2

I run ubuntu. Got this message: ASSEMB'LIVE requires one the following operating systems: Windows or MacOS X. Please switch on one of these to go further.

Yes, we use Unity3D, a web plugin to run hardware accelerated 3D in the browser. They don't support Linux yet, but now that they raised a huge amount of money from Sequoia they might work on it (if they want to support ChromeOS they'd better hury)

Any reason why you chose Unity3D over Google's O3D (http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/) ?

Re: Ask HN: Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com)

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Post by hme »

olalonde wrote: post #5
hme wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, we use Unity3D, a web plugin to run hardware accelerated 3D in the browser. They don't support Linux yet, but now that they raised a huge amount of money from Sequoia they might work on it (if they want to support ChromeOS they'd better hury)

Any reason why you chose Unity3D over Google's O3D ( http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/ ) ?

Unity3D is much more mature and full featured right now (and even more when we started working on this). We are looking into WebGL too, to soon for prime time but promising.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com)

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Post by hme »

An interesting aspect of Assemblive for you, hackers, is that you can embedd a 3D+VOIP widget into any web site. You can add realtime interactions and self awareness of your visitors with only a few lines of code. Here is a screencast of it (sorry for the french accent ;) http://aworldforus.tumblr.com/post/287534616/assemblive-widg...
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