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Amazon Sumerian: A way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences

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tudorw wrote: post #9
modeless wrote: post #3

Looks heavily influenced by Unity. Kinda random that Amazon is building a web based Unity competitor. Doubly weird when you consider that this is their second game engine project. They are already building one called Amazon Lumberyard, forked from the serious AAA game engine CryEngine [1], and it appears at first glance to be entirely separate from this one. Is Amazon really getting value out of all the dev time they…

If they can get some attractive software and prime some devs ready for their new AR device it may be worth it.

> their new AR device

I haven't heard this rumor, care to fill us in?

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Post by Tepix »

cylinder wrote: post #5

What's Amazon really trying to do here?

I think this may be their first foot in the door towards the inevitable development of a Metaverse/Oasis type VR multiuser environment where millions of people will eventually spend most of their time.

The 2nd coming of VR is cooling a bit right now but with the advent of improved hardware I don't see why it won't heat up again reaching mass adoption within a decade.

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Post by stesch »

ane wrote: post #2

The name has to be a reference to Snow Crash .

WARNING: "Snow Crash" is a comedy!

Over the years people mentioned the book in comments about metaverses and VR. But nobody said it was a comedy. I was buying it with the expectation of getting some serious science fiction about a topic I'm interested in.

Instead it starts off with some pizza delivery science fiction parody.

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Post by avar »

modeless wrote: post #3

Looks heavily influenced by Unity. Kinda random that Amazon is building a web based Unity competitor. Doubly weird when you consider that this is their second game engine project. They are already building one called Amazon Lumberyard, forked from the serious AAA game engine CryEngine [1], and it appears at first glance to be entirely separate from this one. Is Amazon really getting value out of all the dev time they…

    > Is Amazon really getting value
    > out of all the dev time they are
    > putting into building game engines?
What an odd way to think about projects like these. It seems obvious that the answer is "of course not, yet".

You could have asked the same question about AWS in 2001. Why is a bookstore putting all this effort into some online hosting platform for third parties?

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