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Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by jakejake »

teirce wrote: post #54
gfodor wrote: post #27

Cool stuff -- at AltspaceVR we support the same concept with Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, etc, but as avatars within a virtual space (ideally in VR.) You can hang out while watching netflix with voice chat, body tracking, etc. This was a big challenge for us to get working well, so I can sympathize with the authors :) http://altvr.com Just install our browser plugin, go to a netflix vid, hit "watch in AltspaceVR", and y…

I feel like I'm the only one who is annoyed when people plug their products in someone else's post. I understand you're just trying to increase your userbase, but it just seems disrespectful.

To me it seems more like the most relevant time to pitch your own project. It also might introduce the original poster to his/her competition - of which they might not have been aware. If I'm interested in the post, then I'm probably interested to know what other similar tools are out there. My opinion, of course.

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by foldor »

ouring1986 wrote: post #59
cyanbane wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed Top 100 was a great live mass(ive?) multiplayer gameshow. I hope to see something similar to it again some day.

How was that played? I'm having trouble googling it.

Try googling by it's name of "1 vs 100". The game played out where one person was randomly chosen as the main contestant who answered trivia questions. If they failed a question they were booted.

The kicker to the game was, 100 other randomly selected players were playing against you answering the same questions. If they got it wrong, and the contestant got it right they were eliminated and the contestant continued.

The goal of the main contestant was to outlast the 100 players, and the more they outlasted the better prizes (usually MS Points) they won. The goal of the 100 was to outlast the main contestant to also win prizes (usually less than the main).

All other players watching the game could participate for fun and play along for no reward. It was actually pretty fun and the events all happened live with an announcer and everything.

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by gfodor »

teirce wrote: post #54
gfodor wrote: post #27

Cool stuff -- at AltspaceVR we support the same concept with Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, etc, but as avatars within a virtual space (ideally in VR.) You can hang out while watching netflix with voice chat, body tracking, etc. This was a big challenge for us to get working well, so I can sympathize with the authors :) http://altvr.com Just install our browser plugin, go to a netflix vid, hit "watch in AltspaceVR", and y…

I feel like I'm the only one who is annoyed when people plug their products in someone else's post. I understand you're just trying to increase your userbase, but it just seems disrespectful.

I see where you're coming from but we're not really competing. If we were competing I agree it'd be pretty lame. We're a totally different experience for a similar use case. If the OP requests in the thread to do so I'll remove the comment but I also thought it might result in a back in forth on the tricks for doing this, which is actually pretty tough.

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by rory096 »

eremzeit wrote: post #37
rory096 wrote: post #36

As I said over on /r/netflix, great app, and the implementation is hands down better than rabb.it's RTC method. Did you start after Netflix switched to HTML5 video? I'm curious how you might've dealt with the old flash player- I basically gave up on any actual control of Netflix in my side project because it was too black-boxy.

Yeah, the HTML5 was key. It's way easier to listen to player events without really interacting with Netflix-specific stuff. I probably would have given up if I was doing it with silverlight. Actually, this is why this is only a chrome extension because Netflix uses silverlight in Firefox.

Wow right it was Silverlight... I think I raged so hard I blocked that out of my memory.

Not that the flash on Hulu or Amazon are any better. I did have some luck with YouTube's old player and injecting their js->flash API, but still, HTML5 was a damn relief.

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by brador »

teirce wrote: post #54
gfodor wrote: post #27

Cool stuff -- at AltspaceVR we support the same concept with Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, etc, but as avatars within a virtual space (ideally in VR.) You can hang out while watching netflix with voice chat, body tracking, etc. This was a big challenge for us to get working well, so I can sympathize with the authors :) http://altvr.com Just install our browser plugin, go to a netflix vid, hit "watch in AltspaceVR", and y…

I feel like I'm the only one who is annoyed when people plug their products in someone else's post. I understand you're just trying to increase your userbase, but it just seems disrespectful.

Let the better product win I say.

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by paul9290 »

gfodor wrote: post #27

Cool stuff -- at AltspaceVR we support the same concept with Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, etc, but as avatars within a virtual space (ideally in VR.) You can hang out while watching netflix with voice chat, body tracking, etc. This was a big challenge for us to get working well, so I can sympathize with the authors :) http://altvr.com Just install our browser plugin, go to a netflix vid, hit "watch in AltspaceVR", and y…

We (SpeakerBlast) do something similar, but for live events; syncing audio and video across multiple/varied IP devices via a URL.

Here's a video where 50 ppl/devices are blasting audio in sync - https://vimeo.com/71647538

Here's a video where we sync audio to video; drive in movie app - https://vimeo.com/93899424

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by blazespin »

teirce wrote: post #54
gfodor wrote: post #27

Cool stuff -- at AltspaceVR we support the same concept with Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, etc, but as avatars within a virtual space (ideally in VR.) You can hang out while watching netflix with voice chat, body tracking, etc. This was a big challenge for us to get working well, so I can sympathize with the authors :) http://altvr.com Just install our browser plugin, go to a netflix vid, hit "watch in AltspaceVR", and y…

I feel like I'm the only one who is annoyed when people plug their products in someone else's post. I understand you're just trying to increase your userbase, but it just seems disrespectful.

I love it! Compare and contrast, man. He could have provided some ideas and suggestions for the OP though. I am sure he has great insight having done the same and it would be great karma to start off with that. Anyways, it's better doing it openly rather than astroturfing nonsense.

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by innguest »

vsakos wrote: post #55
CardenB wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PLEASE open source this! I will use it and might even help you finish it.

To be honest, it's pretty bad, you can't imagine. Everything is in one single C++ file (+ the main.cpp), the chat is a webkit widget (it was the easiest and fastest solution), there is no error checking or anything so it can crash any time, etc etc... Actually, this is my first C++ project, I don't even know C++ (only a bit C from high school).

On the other hand it's a working piece of software, it serves a purpose, there's demand for it, etc etc...

In my opinion you're being way too harsh on yourself. What you said basically amounts to "it's too simple, I used a library, I cannot guarantee it won't ever crash".

Congrats on the first of those three, and welcome to the club with regards to the last two.

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by kyle_martin1 »

I'm in a long distance relationship and have been working on a project to do just this! I've been thinking about open-sourcing it.

I have video chat, a synced shared web browser, and support for Netflix & Hulu.

If anyone is interested: https://www.distanceflix.com

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