Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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Post by kevmo314 » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 1:44 AM UTC

discordianfish wrote: post #22

This is great! I was toying around with the idea of building some sort virtual comedy stage. It would be a web conference with one person streaming audio and video and everyone else is audience with audio only to have audience/laughter track. Anyone build something similar on jitsi?

It's not in Jitsi, but it's worth the $5. https://store.steampowered.com/app/665360/Comedy_Night/

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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Post by moron4hire » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 3:05 AM UTC

liamuk wrote: post #27

We had a really similar idea! https://town.siempre.io/ Leaned in way more on the 2d game aspect of it, and have video drop-off too, but the place it came from: "being able to have multiple conversations in the same shared space without hearing everyone at the same time" is the same.

I had a very nice conversation with one of your developers in your app. I hope you folks can build on your tool and find a path to success. Good luck in your endeavors!

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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Post by gregsadetsky » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 3:17 AM UTC

discordianfish wrote: post #22

This is great! I was toying around with the idea of building some sort virtual comedy stage. It would be a web conference with one person streaming audio and video and everyone else is audience with audio only to have audience/laughter track. Anyone build something similar on jitsi?

I made a prototype a week ago with a face recognition engine on the frontend, connecting into the Jitsi JavaScript API, running my own Jitsi server on DigitalOcean.

The result: the video conferencing only showed faces! Imagine the possibilities of moving those faces around a stage, or using virtual cutouts where the faces would appear, etc.

It was very very fun, I have screenshots of 10 people connecting at once -- hit me up if you want to pursue something :-)

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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Post by dceddia » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 3:35 AM UTC

Awesome! I was thinking along these lines the other day, and picturing a “virtual conference” game where you could walk around and join ad-hoc circles of conversation. Maybe you’d see profile photo avatars for the people near you, and the further away ones would be generic avatars. I think it’d be a cool way to bring some of the serendipity of walking around a conference to online meetings. Maybe introduce a limit to the size of a circle too, so you don’t get 50 people crowded around the 1 famous person.

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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Post by greggman3 » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 4:29 AM UTC

Reminds me a little of genvid.

They make tech that takes data from streamed games and lets you use that data to make interactive client side overlays on the stream that sync to the game.

https://www.genvidtech.com/

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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Post by moron4hire » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 4:32 AM UTC

I had a lot of really great conversations with completely random people tonight. It was a lot of fun chasing them around the little map, screaming "YOU BETTER RUN!" And then talking about VR and open source and projects and even foreign language learning. It's weird, I didn't set out to have "open office hours for the internet at large", but it's now kind of feeling like a thing, and I'm kind of liking it. Maybe that's the take-away with this stupid project. Maybe everyone should have their own, private voice chat server where anyone else can hop in at any time.

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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Post by qznc » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 8:07 AM UTC

lainga wrote: post #28

moron4hire wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not familiar with the book

The backstory to REAMDE is that an MMORPG turns out to also be a really good platform for teleconferencing. Gradually more and more business moves into this MMORPG until the company releases a "business version" and a significant proportion of the world economy is run through what is essentially a professional version of WoW.

Sounds like Second Life. https://www.connect.secondlife.com/about

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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Post by Vinnl » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 8:25 AM UTC

Cool! I recently tried Mozilla Hubs [1], which is a similar concept but in 3D. Worked pretty well, although it was a bit awkward to not be able to see facial expressions on your avatar. And I got a bit nauseous after some time.

[1] https://hubs.mozilla.com/

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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Post by davidlinc1 » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 10:17 AM UTC

This looks super rad and inspires me to whip up my own Jitsi hacks.

I had a Jitsi Meet server kicking around months before coronavirus and now it's seeing more use. I'll give this an install!

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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Post by maxired » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 12:21 PM UTC

Thanks, this is really cool.

I am also working on my own Jitsi Hack, trying to add feature for Agile meetings -> https://meet.retrolution.co/?utm_source=HN

I was thinking to add some features similar to yours in order to implemented Liberating Structures http://www.liberatingstructures.com/