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The Netflix app on the Xbox 360 used to do this. And you and your friends could put on your headsets and watch the same thing on Netflix while chatting.
I'm having a wonderful vision of a global group of friends all tied in via headsets and shushing them all whenever they try to talk.
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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.
2) If you claim your product isn't the same, then why bring it up?
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…
The Netflix app on the Xbox 360 used to do this. And you and your friends could put on your headsets and watch the same thing on Netflix while chatting.
I'm having a wonderful vision of a global group of friends all tied in via headsets and shushing them all whenever they try to talk.
I never quite understood why Netflix removed it.
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…
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.
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth! Politeness be damned!
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.
But, if a long term HN-er (gfodor is) is here anyway and wants to jump in and pitch, I am happy to hear from them. For one thing, he probably knows a lot about this stuff.
There's another solution called https://rabb.it/ , but it also has HBO, Hulu and a bunch of other stuff, seems like a better alternative.
My girlfriend and I tried using rabbit but we weren't happy with the performance. Their implementation is actually to open netflix on a virtual machine GUI and use browser tricks to try to make it seem like you're just controlling the computer like its your desktop. The performance tends to be bad because there is two hops, from netflix to their servers, and their servers to you.
The only problems I experienced were with the sound slider.
Zeebox/Beamly also had/have some good social features but I think they even struggled for people to actually use it. After the initial curiosity people just want to veg in front of the box. I think. http://beamly.com
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.
