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

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Post by ThomasGeek »

andruby wrote: post #60
ehnto wrote: post #22

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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.

Really? It seems like they keep refactoring all the time. Feels like Duke Nukem whenever, which switched engines a couple of times too during development.

Lumberyard is a forked version of CryEngine, which Star Citzen was already using (fairly heavily modified for 64 bit precision) so the move to Lumberyard wasn't as big as it seems. They do however refactor other systems like items and inventory quite often which seems to be slowing down development although the new versions do seem like improvements.

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Post by pkage »

nautilus12 wrote: post #62

All that nerd culture love stuff in the beginning bugged me enough that I didnt want to read the rest of the article. For some of us this is a career and we dont really play into to the whole nerd is beautiful movement.

It struck me as one of those "I'm a marketing person who googled a bunch of terms to try to relate" kind of statements.

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Post by Ensorceled »

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…

AR/VR in product sales is expected to be a multi-billion dollar market. This isn't a game engine, this is a brand/marketing engine with game mechanics.

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Post by xaedes »

kenshi wrote: post #57
simias wrote: post #44

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AWS was reusing their existing infrastructure and expertise and opening it up to 3rd parties. I'm unclear why Amazon needs a custom game engine. They must have some plans to enter this area, maybe make their own VR headsets?

VR online shopping could be a massive thing one day.

Reminds me of the virtual reality access to the market in the movie Valerian.

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Post by ccozan »

simias wrote: post #46
Tepix wrote: post #13

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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.

>The 2nd coming of VR is cooling a bit right now It's true and it's unfortunate, we're just starting to see "affordable" hardware with decent performance. I finally pulled the trigger and bought a Rift, at 400 euros for the headset and the controllers it's pretty decent value IMO. Too bad VR seems to have lost some of its hype in the past year or two.

Err.. that's the exact definition of .. hype.

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Post by JulianMorrison »

simias wrote: post #44
avar wrote: post #20

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> Is Amazon really getting value > out of all the dev time they are > putting into building game engines? What an odd way to think about projects like these. It seems obvious that the answer is "of course not, yet ". You could have asked the same question about AWS in 2001. Why is a bookstore putting all this effort into some online hosting platform for third parties?

AWS was reusing their existing infrastructure and expertise and opening it up to 3rd parties. I'm unclear why Amazon needs a custom game engine. They must have some plans to enter this area, maybe make their own VR headsets?

Given the hype about running games virtualized in AWS, no it is not unclear. Amazon wants a game engine native to their cloud, rather than a PC engine running on virtualized hardware, so people can start thinking really big about VR or games, rather than "one machine at a time" models.

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

adventured wrote: post #45
mmjaa wrote: post #29

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>>>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?

Nearly every valuable and or volume product (not every copy of every product) will be scanned for VR/AR purposes, so you'll be able to actually examine it from most or all angles. There's no scenario where Amazon doesn't do this eventually. The applications for clothing alone (which they're extremely determined to be huge in) makes it a big obvious must. Near-term it'll be ugly, 20 years out it'll be so good as to be…

Furniture apps using ARKit work shockingly well for this already. I definitely expect to see Amazon support something similar for a lot of products soon, and I think it'd be genuinely useful.
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