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Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams

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Re: Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams

#91
post #35

Are all of your assets original? The avatars look very suspiciously like the overland trainer sprites from Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire. When I was a kid I made “custom” Pokemon trainer sprites for fun and these look like something I would have made; just take a sprite sheet from spriters resource and edit away...

All the avatars and assets are original, though I concede that there is an avatar that looks like the pokemon trainer (and you're not the only one who's pointed this out :P)

Re: Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams

#92
post #65

i like gather.town. a totally frivolous suggestion i would make is that it should be possible to pick up and eat the coffee and cookies. you could have a meaningless status effect of some kind.

We're thinking of doing something like this for our team, so people can drink virtual water next to the virtual water cooler. Or, you could go to the bar and buy a drink for a friend!

Re: Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams

#93

Isn’t this a knockoff of something posted earlier this year?

We posted an early prototype of this, https://theonline.town, back in March (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22818300). As others have mentioned though, there are a ton of people building similar things.

Re: Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams

#94
post #29

Love this! The last thing you guys need is a mobile app so people can jump in even on a phone.

You can join Gather spaces from the phone browser, though it is missing features (most notably, you can't share your own video for performance reasons)

Re: Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams

#95

Great idea. We used that in our company for a while but. Bad ux of sharing screen (some objects are on top of the screen) and stability issues made is live in Zoom.

We have changed some UI issues with screenshare, and worked a ton on stability, so it might be worth another try! Thanks for the feedback too--it's very helpful for us to know where we might be losing people.

Re: Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams

#96
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I run a completely free service https://firemeet.io Though I think gather's UX is actually very friendly to non-technical people!

hi revalo <3 miss you hope the other coast is treating you well

miss you too fam <3

Re: Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams

#97
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I run a completely free service https://firemeet.io Though I think gather's UX is actually very friendly to non-technical people!

That's cool! How is it funded?

I've engineered it to be very inexpensive to run. I work on high efficiency video codecs, so one benefit is that I get to sometimes test my codec's and get real user feedback.

I personally don't find virtual stuff fun, the pandemic is really sad, so wanted to make something available for public use. :)

Re: Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams

#99
post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I managed to get to Gather's office and what blew my mind is that there are programmatic gates that allow people to go into private spaces if they have permission.

Many more such interactions coming soon! P.S. this is an awesome space on of our users made: https://gather.town/app/qBA0zkP9HTQxpqpB/inception . This one blew my mind!!

Opened the link in Firefox and got a message "...use chrome". I find that not only unacceptable, but also bad practice.
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