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Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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post #32

Guessing they've just replaced the player skin with that of the deer. Would make sense, since a program could read the players position from memory and pick random targets or directions for it to head towards. Also makes sense why it would be shot at...

IIRC, In GTAV you can play as an animals; deer, pegion, cat, etc.

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

#62

I'm legitimately looking forward to a "bird cam". If I can run it locally, I'm setting it up for Ultra-High with HighDef textures and leaving it streaming in the office. I love the GTA V cityscape.

The world in GTAV is seriously an achievement. I can say that there were points playing through it that I legitimately had to stop just to marvel at the view.

For a video game, that is pretty impressive.

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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post #65

"The San Andreas Deer Cam is currently experiencing technical difficulties and will be back soon. Above is footage recorded on 2/29/16." I think we crashed it..

Pretty sure Twitch can handle the HN effect so it's probably something else.

The mod is apparently unstable and crashes periodically, so the author has to restart it now and then.

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

#67
post #20

Jesus, Twitch is still using Flash? What year is it anyway?

Getting streaming to work in HTML5 is magnitudes harder than normal video. You can't compare Twitch to other web video players. In fact, there is no official support for live streaming in HTML5.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/22001830/5917315

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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One Halloween I logged into Ultima Online, and found I had been transformed into a deer.

I could walk around and do deer stuff, but no weapons or magic or talking.

Then some hippie bastard came along and tamed me! [1]

I had to follow him all around and do what he told me to from then on, on that terrible day.

[1] http://uo2.stratics.com/skill-guides/skills-and-professions/...

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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post #62

I'm legitimately looking forward to a "bird cam". If I can run it locally, I'm setting it up for Ultra-High with HighDef textures and leaving it streaming in the office. I love the GTA V cityscape.

The world in GTAV is seriously an achievement. I can say that there were points playing through it that I legitimately had to stop just to marvel at the view. For a video game, that is pretty impressive.

This is basically why I'm really excited about VR. I had the same experience with Just Cause 2, and I think that would also be amazing with VR.

Edit: if you have a Google Cardboard-type device and a iOS or Android device to go with it, https://www.vg247.com/2015/09/24/just-cause-3-vr-app-ios-and...

Edit 2: I've also found that these Cardboard-style VR things work with the "cross view" technique: https://m.reddit.com/r/CrossView/about if you don't have anything aside from a screen but still wish to play along :)

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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Read a paper few years ago that Slow TV[^1] will become popular in the digital era. I couldn't believe it at the time. And here we are. I guess it's a logical step to fight speed of current era.

It did a sudden takeoff even in my country - Prague tram-cam is the best[^2].

[^1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television [^2]: http://slowtv.playtvak.cz/prave-ted-mazaci-tramvaj-jede-prah...

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