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Poly – Browse, Discover and Download 3D Objects

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Post by sidcool » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 4:08 PM UTC

Poly – Browse, Discover and Download 3D Objects
poly.google.com

Re: Poly – Browse, Discover and Download 3D Objects

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Post by retSava » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 4:19 PM UTC

Cool, but I don't really get the intended audience, if there's any specific? Games? I guess VR/AR stuff, like Google cardboard.

I like that they have the C64: https://poly.google.com/view/9Qc5EtYmJry although they call it "Keyboard (not combined)".

Re: Poly – Browse, Discover and Download 3D Objects

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Post by julianozen » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:03 PM UTC

In hindsight, sketchup probably would've been a great asset for Google to still own

Re: Poly – Browse, Discover and Download 3D Objects

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Post by kfarr » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:09 PM UTC

retSava wrote: post #2

Cool, but I don't really get the intended audience, if there's any specific? Games? I guess VR/AR stuff, like Google cardboard. I like that they have the C64: https://poly.google.com/view/9Qc5EtYmJry although they call it "Keyboard (not combined)".

I think it's similar in spirit to sketchfab. Before this Google had separate object libraries for Tiltbrush and Blocks, now it'll be unified. They also have hinted on twitter to be releasing an official API which would (in theory) allow developers to include objects in WebVR/AR scenes.

Re: Poly – Browse, Discover and Download 3D Objects

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Post by sturmen » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:22 PM UTC

Here's the blog post announcing it: https://blog.google/products/google-vr/poly-browse-discover-...

Re: Poly – Browse, Discover and Download 3D Objects

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Post by mtycholaz » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:37 PM UTC

https://www.remix3d.com/ competition

Re: Poly – Browse, Discover and Download 3D Objects

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Post by dvh » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:40 PM UTC

Uploading works fine, I can see and rotate my model but there is no option to sell models so I don't know.

Re: Poly – Browse, Discover and Download 3D Objects

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Post by chroem- » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:43 PM UTC

julianozen wrote: post #3

In hindsight, sketchup probably would've been a great asset for Google to still own

It's a shame they sold it. It still has the highest modelling capability / difficulty ratio of any 3D software I've seen. Also the 3D Warehouse was a load of fun.

Re: Poly – Browse, Discover and Download 3D Objects

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Post by badrequest » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:50 PM UTC

Am I the only one who can't seem to view these properly on stable Firefox?

Re: Poly – Browse, Discover and Download 3D Objects

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Post by obiefernandez » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:55 PM UTC

It's like a poor ripoff of https://sketchfab.com/