Back in the day, I really loved Poser on the Mac. Is there a good web-based or free linux alternative these days? Something you can use to create realistic humans?
MakeHuman is what you are looking for. http://www.makehuman.org/
Amazon Sumerian: A way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences
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#22Looks 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…
StarCitizen is based on Lumberyard now. In theory, any game using the right versions of CryEngine can move to Lumberyard as well, for whatever reason they might choose to do that.
Re: Amazon Sumerian: A way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences
#23Looks 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…
Charles Foster Kane^W^W^WJeff Bezos: You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 100,000 years.
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#24What's Amazon really trying to do here?
I think this may be their first foot in the door towards the inevitable development of a Metaverse/Oasis type VR multiuser environment where millions of people will eventually spend most of their time. The 2nd coming of VR is cooling a bit right now but with the advent of improved hardware I don't see why it won't heat up again reaching mass adoption within a decade.
If 3D TVs failed to reach mass adoption why would this?
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they can get some attractive software and prime some devs ready for their new AR device it may be worth it.
> their new AR device I haven't heard this rumor, care to fill us in?
I'd be interested too, though I'd be surprised if they weren't all at it. Especially those who missed out on the smartphone thing.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this may be their first foot in the door towards the inevitable development of a Metaverse/Oasis type VR multiuser environment where millions of people will eventually spend most of their time. The 2nd coming of VR is cooling a bit right now but with the advent of improved hardware I don't see why it won't heat up again reaching mass adoption within a decade.
If 3D TVs failed to reach mass adoption why would this?
Because 3D in a TV is kinda ok, VR is actually affecting.
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#27What's Amazon really trying to do here?
I think this may be their first foot in the door towards the inevitable development of a Metaverse/Oasis type VR multiuser environment where millions of people will eventually spend most of their time. The 2nd coming of VR is cooling a bit right now but with the advent of improved hardware I don't see why it won't heat up again reaching mass adoption within a decade.
> where millions of people will eventually spend most of their time.
I'll try very hard to avoid that. I'd like computers to evolve in a way that we have to spend less time with them rather than more.
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#28The name has to be a reference to Snow Crash .
WARNING: "Snow Crash" is a comedy! Over the years people mentioned the book in comments about metaverses and VR. But nobody said it was a comedy. I was buying it with the expectation of getting some serious science fiction about a topic I'm interested in. Instead it starts off with some pizza delivery science fiction parody.
I think you need to listen to reason. Snow Crash is serious business!
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#29What's Amazon really trying to do here?
I think this may be their first foot in the door towards the inevitable development of a Metaverse/Oasis type VR multiuser environment where millions of people will eventually spend most of their time. The 2nd coming of VR is cooling a bit right now but with the advent of improved hardware I don't see why it won't heat up again reaching mass adoption within a decade.
>>>Metaverse/Oasis type VR multiuser environment
If anyone has an app for AR, Amazon has an app for AR.
Maybe they're expecting us to browse the aisles virtually in the very near future?
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#30omg took me some time to find the actual product page: https://aws.amazon.com/sumerian/