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Yep, still better than the New Reddit. Great job!
Still links to the new Reddit design when visiting links from Reddit 3D, unfortunately.
If yours logged in, under settings there’s an option to select the old layout.
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#142Doesn't work in Firefox. Will not open Chromium.
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Please share your thought process, how you get idea to build something like this?
Not trying to flame the guy since he obviously put in a lot of work on his own, but the original idea is from a lainchan thread [1] for the 3d anonymous imageboard 3dchan [2]. I'm only assuming they're not the same person since this project is not on the 3dchan owner's github [3]. Again, the two are quite clearly different, and parallel creativity does exist in the realm of possibility, but my personal guess is he us…
See also JanusVR for an even older incarnation of this idea (https://janusvr.com/).
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#144Doesn't work in Firefox. Will not open Chromium.
Works for me in Firefox Quantum 69.0 on macOS.
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#145The movement on a touch screen is unintuitive. Dragging the screen moves it in the direction opposite to what you expect generally, when you scroll.
Great job, nonetheless
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#146Amazing, this is clearly a glimpse into a future of internet content being less like a document and more like a virtual world. Suggestion: the enter key should focus the chat box (like a FPS game) so you don't have to hit escape then click on it.
You mean the future as imagined by someone from 1995?
I think it's possible that vision is closer to the real future than that sounds at face value. I also initially thought of lawnmower man era breathless predictions for VRML and mockups of the future 3D internet. But this is actually a surprisingly compelling experience. Is it wrong I kind of like that almost everything from the browsing experience of reddit is removed except the titles and the linked content? It's got a pleasing simplicity and the tangible nature of making the internet a physical place is appealing to my primitive brain somehow. Definitely not my new way to browse the web, but surprisingly charming.
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#147How to use it Desktop: Click to start, WASD and mouse to move Mobile: Dragging on left half of screen is move, right have is look Append any subreddit to the url to switch subreddits Tech stack - Babylon.js for the 3d rendering engine - Google Cloud Function which queries Reddit Api and then transforms the data depending on the data type - For images: Transform and serve through https://images.weserv.nl - For videos…
Well done, adding in some nice lighting from three.js or glslsandbox.com style would awesome.
Art Gallery:
Earth Natural Art Gallery
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Also, I could walk through the walls of the "museum", are there no clipping options?
It's definitely possible, I just didn't have time to implement clipping properly haha.
Clipping first, then it just needs NPC trolls that follow you everywhere spewing the actual comments from each thing you're in close proximity too - then you'll have a pretty neat game
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#149This is like one of those mirror funhouses that you think will be fun, then turns into a nightmare after about 8 minutes.
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#150Great idea and the implementation is pretty good for v1. The v2 can index reddit and render that index as a fancy 3d structure that gives a 10,000 feet view on what's going on in reddit: relationship between subreddits, topics, comments, users. Perhaps this structure can look like a forest where heavy subreddits look like big branchy trees and users look like bees adding comments. Big plus if this is rendered in real time, at least with 1 fps. It's not entirely impossible that this idea may be good enough for a little startup (afaik, YC offers 150k for 7% if the idea seems worth exploring).