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Re: Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

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Post by hombre_fatal »

Love this. Was much better than I expected since you also showed other users, what they were looking at, and let us have personalities like looking at each other and nodding yes/no which kept cracking me up.

A few people were at the Game of Thrones Cosplay submission (an image of two cute women in costumes) looking at each other and nodding. Some people formed a conga line.

It's easy to imagine stopping this project when you have the basic rendering + WASD working, but the multiplayer aspect was simple and fun.

Re: Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

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Post by ozzmotik »

this is an absolute gem to experience. my question: do you shard it off to different servers or some such thing? i only ask because trying to connect on both my mobile and my laptop, i can't seem to ever end up in the same apparent room as myself. but that's no but deal, just a minor curiosity.

Re: Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

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Post by 0xDEFC0DE »

masterspy7 wrote: post #2

How 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…

Do you filter NSFW stuff by default?

Re: Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

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Post by hans1729 »

This is glorious, I just found a friend and we nodded at each other for a good while. Then I walked through the next best wall and lured others out, since they can still see the beam indicating the direction of my view.

Thanks for this!

Re: Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

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Post by gojomo »

kthejoker2 wrote: post #10

Thanks, I hate it? Seriously, great job, supremely disorienting - it almost felt like the Internet again.

Watch out, eventually every visit to Reddit on mobile will have half the screen taken up with:

  See this post in:
    
    Reddit 3d  [   OPEN   ]
    Reddit App [   OPEN   ]
    Safari     [ CONTINUE ]
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