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

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Post by bhouston »

gbrits wrote: post #59

A bit at a tangent, but I was recently looking for software (open source or commercial) that could help me develop a 'interior design / planning' editor. I.e.: given a specific area (outside dimensions), allow to drag walls, doors, etc to create a floorplan, and given that, allow more detailed planning like kitchen, bathroom appliances, etc. Ideally, this would result in a 3d-model which could be imported in a tool l…

We support creating interactive experiences with our https://threekit.com toolset.

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Post by bpicolo »

suyash wrote: post #8

Best news to my years. Unity is bloated and needs serious competition. +1 for using JavaScript for scripting.

This looks to be targeting enterprise-style VR products rather than games. Sales training in VR, etc. Lumberyard is their game engine

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Post by bpicolo »

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…

Doesn't look like they're intending sumerian it as a game engine at all. Looks like it's to construct enterprise products, like sales-training seminars in VR, with minimal programming.

https://aws.amazon.com/sumerian/ is pretty explicit there.

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This is clearly based on Goo Create, which went bankrupt a few years ago: https://goocreate.com I never figured out how bought the assets as it was never announced.

Take this screenshot of AWS Sumerian: https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2017/Sumerian-07-Ma...

And this screenshot of Goo Create: https://learn.goocreate.com/manual/editor/create-ui.png

They are the same.

Here is a side-by-side image of the two: https://twitter.com/BenAtExocortex/status/935158702180417536

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Post by jedberg »

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…

They own Twitch. They want to expand the games market so there are more people to stream and watch games.

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Post by BatFastard »

bhouston wrote: post #85

This is clearly based on Goo Create, which went bankrupt a few years ago: https://goocreate.com I never figured out how bought the assets as it was never announced. Take this screenshot of AWS Sumerian: https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2017/Sumerian-07-Ma... And this screenshot of Goo Create: https://learn.goocreate.com/manual/editor/create-ui.png They are the same. Here is a side-by-side image of the two: ht…

Wow, too similar to not be a descendant.

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Post by BatFastard »

Tepix wrote: post #13
cylinder wrote: post #5

What'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.

Personally I would call it the 3rd coming, VRML in 1995, Virtual Worlds in 2005, and now VR/AR in 2015. Just might stick this time, but it will be slower than they predict.

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Post by BatFastard »

mmjaa wrote: post #29
Tepix wrote: post #13

Earlier 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.

>>>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?

My company did a lot of experimentation with VR shopping. While the idea seems cool, 2D is generally faster and easier than 3D.

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Post by pen2l »

bhouston wrote: post #85

This is clearly based on Goo Create, which went bankrupt a few years ago: https://goocreate.com I never figured out how bought the assets as it was never announced. Take this screenshot of AWS Sumerian: https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2017/Sumerian-07-Ma... And this screenshot of Goo Create: https://learn.goocreate.com/manual/editor/create-ui.png They are the same. Here is a side-by-side image of the two: ht…

Saying they're the same is like saying Notepad2 and Sublime are the same, both have status bars which indicate place in text, both support copy+pasting of text, etc.

If you have a 3d modeling program of some sort, of course it will have an object manager which shows components like your model, the lights, the sky, a position box that tells you current size/rotation information of whatever component, your current viewport settings, etc. And since it's a cloud thing, like Fusion360 it has an asset manager which probably works more or less the same way.

Unless you're fundamentally reinventing the wheel in some aspect, they ARE going to be the same in a lot of places.

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