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Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D

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Post by harper »

jsherwani wrote: post #34
chickenpotpie wrote: post #9

Ok I got to know: how much did you spend to get pop.com?

Since our company is personally bootstrapped by me, answering this will divulge more of my personal financial situation than I would like to share. However, I can say that I worked with https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ted0 who was AMAZING at helping find and acquire the domain. I can strongly recommend him as an amazing person to work with for anyone interested in buying a high-value domain.

can also vouch for Teddy. super helpful for getting modest.com back from pypl

Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D

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Post by richrichardsson »

Nice idea.

I had a bunch of "phantom" avatars for some reason (https://imgur.com/a/ixBGuK8)

Some thoughts:

- the idea someone just mentioned in the "launch party" about having a visualisation of an avatars audio "range" (how far they project sound) would be useful

- a visualisation that someone is speaking could also be useful (little speaker next to their name)

- definitely need some kind of password protection for joining, gate crashing would be pretty easy (unless of course you rate limit attempting to join a space to stop people brute forcing the space ID)

- ability to mute someone would also be useful in a more public setting (and the mutee should probably get a visualisation that an avatar cannot hear them)

- being able to agree with another person to go into a completely new space would also be useful way to take a conversation private

Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D

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Post by lksslr »

congratulations, looks cool! I'm one of the persons behind https://laptopsinspace.de and it would probably be interesting to share some experiences. Our tech stack is similar, yet different. We also use mediasoup for the video, Svelte for the frontend and ThreeJS as the 3D framework!

Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D

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Post by scraft »

This feels like a fun lightweight version of one of our products, vTime XR https://vtime.net/vtimexr which lets you chat with people both in VR and on mobile. It is amazing how much better chat is when you can face people and speak to them. When you throw in VR it gets pretty exciting too. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D

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Post by 1f60c »

uses wrote: post #20
chickenpotpie wrote: post #9

Ok I got to know: how much did you spend to get pop.com?

Yeah, I'm pretty curious because it must've cost in $10k-100k range right? Isn't this the type of vanity purchase that usually happens after you validate your idea with 10,000 customers and you got a round of investment to go big? I would expect a newly launched startup to use getpopapp.info, or used a made-up company name with an acquirable domain.

I think it's closer to $1M, if not more.

Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D

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Post by 1f60c »

I think the site got hugged:

   ping -c 4 pop.com
  PING pop.com (0.0.0.0): 56 data bytes
  ping: sendto: Socket is not connected
  ping: sendto: Socket is not connected
  Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
  ping: sendto: Socket is not connected
  Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
  ping: sendto: Socket is not connected
  Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
  
  --- pop.com ping statistics ---
  4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

Re: Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D

#50

Post by blensor »

joshuakelly wrote: post #35

This is really cool, I joined the launch chat and people were emulating in real life behaviors like standing in a circle and moving their focus to the speaker. I also noticed that multiple conversations were happening at the same time, without interference since the audio is spatially modified. Love the fact that it's entirely in the browser without an app too.

What you are describing sounds a lot like AltspaceVR

I am visiting a weekly XR Meetup on Thursdays and it feels a bit like going to a conference. You have someone presenting their work, with displays and people gathering in groups chatting about things.

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