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Re: Show HN: Browse HN Together in Three.js

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Post by philipscott »

moffkalast wrote: post #37
ceasesurthinko wrote: post #19

This is the most random funnest thing i've done in days. I tried to inception it by pasting the hyperbeam link into the VC, didn't work though heh.

https://xkcd.com/244/ I was also disappointed it didn't work.

You can actually get it to work if you run it locally. The problem is that the demo requires WebGL, and the servers we're handing out don't support WebGL.

See the "webgl" parameter here: https://docs.hyperbeam.com/start-chromium-session#parameters

A little easter egg for the devs that try our API :)

Re: Show HN: Browse HN Together in Three.js

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Post by philipscott »

tauwauwau wrote: post #35
philipscott wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After you visit the link, copy-paste it into a new window. The content will be synchronized ;)

If I leave the video playing and close the tab, it keeps on playing the audio.

Yep. We're running Chromium in the cloud and streaming it back as a video. When you visit https://threejs-example.hyperbeam.com, it will create a "room" and append the room ID to the URL (e.g. https://threejs-example.hyperbeam.com/abc).

All viewers in the same room see and hear the same video stream, and can control the same browser instance.

Re: Show HN: Browse HN Together in Three.js

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Post by peteforde »

philipscott wrote: post #2

Hi HN! Happy to answer any questions you have about the demo and the tech.

1. This is genuinely impressive. It's a solid example of the reason I visit HN. Kudos to your team. 2. I'm genuinely curious how you anticipate folks using this. The watch-party use case is interesting but it's a crowded space and people are not likely lining up to pay. It seems like hilarious overkill for content embedding. I'm wondering what the killer app is? In the most optimistic way possible.

It's almost like it's so far ahead, I worry that people won't know what to do with it. It's like the "what would you do with infinite bandwidth" problem... even smart people tap out creatively depressingly quickly.

Re: Show HN: Browse HN Together in Three.js

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Post by vz8 »

This is remarkable stuff.

Suggestion: A hotkey (in or out of the virtual computer) that allows you to reset to the default orientation without having to reload the page. On a laptop with only a touchpad, I'm fighting with the controls a bit.

Re: Show HN: Browse HN Together in Three.js

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Post by metadat »

This is simply amazing. I wish it was open source, but totally understand why that is not realistic or possible.

It's crazy to think this is built off forked chromium yet there is no really good self-hosted cross-platform Remote Desktop app.

Keep up the good work!

Re: Show HN: Browse HN Together in Three.js

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Post by philipscott »

metadat wrote: post #48

This is simply amazing. I wish it was open source, but totally understand why that is not realistic or possible. It's crazy to think this is built off forked chromium yet there is no really good self-hosted cross-platform Remote Desktop app. Keep up the good work!

We might open-source something in the future. Honestly we haven't open-sourced Hyperbeam because the code is a bit messy. In the mean time you can check out https://github.com/crybapp, we're partnered with them.

Hyperbeam started out as anime watch party website for our engineering capstone project in 2019, so the commit history is a bit comical. https://uwaterloo.ca/news/engineering-students/taking-innova...

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