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Re: Show HN: Free 3D virtual office in the browser

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Post by Aeolun »

dliebeskind wrote: post #60
frijole wrote: post #55

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Curious of your thoughts on Topia, similar but geared for office work, community building, and commercial worlds. https://topia.io/

CEO of Topia here - hi! We're 100% focused on communities and human connection, not on office work or commercial tools :). But work employees can be a community as well and strengthening the bonds you have with your coworkers is a great use of Topia! Topia is all about creating real relationships built upon shared experiences and memories. We have tons of fun features to help world builders create unique, connective…

Wow, this person asked for information, and instead they got a fluff piece.

Was this an automated post made to any mention of Topia?

Re: Show HN: Free 3D virtual office in the browser

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Post by ghempton »

ghempton wrote: post #30
jfoucher wrote: post #27

I tried signing up and I got a collection of most useless error messages, such as Unauthorized, Forbidden, Email is in use and so on. The Email is in use one does not seem so useless, but it really is if you get it when you try again with the same email address after getting one of the other messages...

Thanks for the feedback. Any other details you feel ok sharing about how you signed up? Was this using oauth?

We just fixed this.

Re: Show HN: Free 3D virtual office in the browser

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Post by ghempton »

iamwil wrote: post #70
ghempton wrote: post #61

Sorry all for the signup issues. A fix is going to be deployed in a few minutes. Sendgrid was giving us errors and we mistakenly had them in a codepath that was called synchronously.

Still signup issues. I got unauthorized, but then tried again, and said the email was taken.

Just fixed this, your original signup actually went through if you try to login with it.

Re: Show HN: Free 3D virtual office in the browser

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Post by whather »

tossaway9000 wrote: post #68
kuroguro wrote: post #48

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Same, reloaded the page after the error and got in.

Thanks, that worked, if I had not seen this message I might have forgotten about this and never returned.

Sorry all - was an issue with Sendgrid, but we have it fixed now.

Re: Show HN: Free 3D virtual office in the browser

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Post by ghempton »

binbag wrote: post #50

I tried to sign up using my real name, real work email, and a strong password suggested by Edge, and I got red error text simply saying "Unauthorized". What does this mean?

Sorry this has been fixed. Your sign up most likely went through if you try and log back in with those same credentials.

Re: Show HN: Free 3D virtual office in the browser

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Post by azinman2 »

I understand the appeal of emulating physical space in terms of people's ability to understand it, but what I don't get is:

1. Couldn't everything be expressed more easily in 2D

2. Would living in this for long time feel like a simulacrum that gets depressing after a while?

There are so many videos out there mocking the WFH experience and the loneliness and dehumanizing elements that literally making your entire work experience from a virtual physical world further and further distance ourselves to being overly siloed and non-social creatures? Even if features make remote work better (I haven't actually used it), it seems to me to be missing the point when going in this direction at all.

Re: Show HN: Free 3D virtual office in the browser

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Post by wilsonrocks »

egypturnash wrote: post #12
GordonS wrote: post #10

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I'd like to try this, but the "Try Now for Free!" button wants me to create an account - I don't want to create an account just to have a quick look. I'd much rather have a quick look, then maybe create an account later if I wanted to try it more meaningfully. If you're an HN regular, I guess you were expecting a comment like this - is there an open URL we can use just to get a feel for it?

Account creation doesn't require clicking a link in the email, I just used 'buttmonkey' as the username and 'buttmonkey@mailinator.com' as the email. And now I am stuck in the tutorial because it wants me to zoom in and out with the mouse wheel or the track pad, and I am at my desk with my computer closed and plugged into my monitor and my Wacom tablet and it doesn't recognize using the touch ring set to 'scroll'. It…

Is opening the computer a possibility?

Re: Show HN: Free 3D virtual office in the browser

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Post by bobsmooth »

zucked wrote: post #52
egypturnash wrote: post #12

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Account creation doesn't require clicking a link in the email, I just used 'buttmonkey' as the username and 'buttmonkey@mailinator.com' as the email. And now I am stuck in the tutorial because it wants me to zoom in and out with the mouse wheel or the track pad, and I am at my desk with my computer closed and plugged into my monitor and my Wacom tablet and it doesn't recognize using the touch ring set to 'scroll'. It…

I think they shut down Mailinator emails (tried Mailismagic and mailinator and both times I was "unauthorized")

Mailinator still works. The homepage doesn't suggest emails anymore but there's a box at the top of the page for whatever fake email you want to check.

Re: Show HN: Free 3D virtual office in the browser

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Post by Jommi »

crummy wrote: post #35
astlouis44 wrote: post #21

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Congrats on the launch. I have to ask though... how do you plan to differentiate? As I'm sure you are aware, there has been at least 25 (likely more) of these exact same web-based, 3D spaces platforms for remote work as an interactive alternative to Zoom. All launched since COVID, all offering pretty similar value propositions. Why should anyone use this over a competitor?

I've tried a bunch of solutions like this and think the answer is that Spot.xyz is the richest (but still simple) experience. Here's my summary: * The world is easy to move around in and manipulate, which is rare for a 3d space (as opposed to Mozilla Hubs for example) * Video chat showing up on peoples heads is much nicer than in a separate section like Gather.town * Hear people per-room, rather than just volume atte…

Your last sentence is really why I'm always bearish on all these 3d platforms.

We are just barely able to do these concurrent chats on 2d, mostly because of advancements on stuff like webRTC.

3d is going to be at least 10 years out - and at that point ubiquitous VR/AR might already be a thing.

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