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Amazon Sumerian: A way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences

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Re: Amazon Sumerian: A way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences

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Post by modeless »

Looks heavily influenced by Unity. Kinda random that Amazon is building a web based Unity competitor. Doubly weird when you consider that this is their second game engine project. They are already building one called Amazon Lumberyard, forked from the serious AAA game engine CryEngine [1], and it appears at first glance to be entirely separate from this one.

Is Amazon really getting value out of all the dev time they are putting into building game engines? I'm not aware of any games built in Lumberyard at all, though I haven't been paying much attention.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/

Re: Amazon Sumerian: A way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences

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Post by pjmlp »

veli_joza wrote: post #4

This is product launch? Where is the product page? API docs? How does Sumerian relate to Lumberyard, the other Amazon 3D engine? They demonstrate basic placing of 3D objects in environment, what about UI?

I also did not understood, it looks like half-finished article.

Re: Amazon Sumerian: A way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences

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Post by gpestana »

cylinder wrote: post #5

What's Amazon really trying to do here?

Taking over the world. I mean, they've been pretty much copying and improving any other web service/tool/cloud service. Why not VR creation and eventually a VR market? It seems to me that this is just like another AWS move towards being in as many markets and fronts as possible.

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Post by tudorw »

modeless wrote: post #3

Looks heavily influenced by Unity. Kinda random that Amazon is building a web based Unity competitor. Doubly weird when you consider that this is their second game engine project. They are already building one called Amazon Lumberyard, forked from the serious AAA game engine CryEngine [1], and it appears at first glance to be entirely separate from this one. Is Amazon really getting value out of all the dev time they…

If they can get some attractive software and prime some devs ready for their new AR device it may be worth it.
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