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A game about staring into the eyes of a stranger

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Re: A game about staring into the eyes of a stranger

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Post by eieio »

Ha, I went to submit a 'Show HN' about this and someone had beat me to posting it :)

I've been hacking on stranger.video for the last couple of weeks. One big design goal was to build something omegle-like that I'd be a little more comfortable using (thus there's no audio, no text chat, video is limited to faces, video cuts if it can't find a face, if you don't like what's on screen close your eyes and it disappears, etc). But I started before omegle shut down - the timing was surprisingly (and of course the shut down is sad).

The site is also intentionally set up to not feel too gamey; I think some folks experience this as "staring contest" and others as "weird art about missed connections" and I'd like it to be open to both (so, no leaderboards). I think it'd be really cool to set up some physical devices that are all hooked up to an instance of this site.

Anyway, I blogged a little bit more about the site at https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-12-stranger-video/. Happy to answer questions here ofc.

Re: A game about staring into the eyes of a stranger

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Post by eieio »

TheRealHB wrote: post #3

Not working for when I tried. I wonder if I print a set of open eyes and test your game.... Will it detect the trick? Would I win or get banned? Jokes aside, eager to test ; )

I definitely don't want to make you do any work, but if you keep having problems i'm happy to debug your setup with you (just email eieiogames@gmail.com) for as long as you have patience!

in my experience the face detection is relatively good but the eye detection is still a little spotty / could be tweaked[1]. Although within reason that's just part of the fun.

[1] https://twitter.com/thecpe/status/1725553399981044165

Re: A game about staring into the eyes of a stranger

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Post by trompe-le-monde »

eieio wrote: post #4

Ha, I went to submit a 'Show HN' about this and someone had beat me to posting it :) I've been hacking on stranger.video for the last couple of weeks. One big design goal was to build something omegle-like that I'd be a little more comfortable using (thus there's no audio, no text chat, video is limited to faces, video cuts if it can't find a face, if you don't like what's on screen close your eyes and it disappears,…

The video feed showing the stranger's face doesn't seem to be working, but the inputs taken from my own camera (blinks) do. Is there a way to fix that issue on my end?

Re: A game about staring into the eyes of a stranger

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Post by eieio »

trompe-le-monde wrote: post #7
eieio wrote: post #4

Ha, I went to submit a 'Show HN' about this and someone had beat me to posting it :) I've been hacking on stranger.video for the last couple of weeks. One big design goal was to build something omegle-like that I'd be a little more comfortable using (thus there's no audio, no text chat, video is limited to faces, video cuts if it can't find a face, if you don't like what's on screen close your eyes and it disappears,…

The video feed showing the stranger's face doesn't seem to be working, but the inputs taken from my own camera (blinks) do. Is there a way to fix that issue on my end?

I think this is likely an issue with the way that I am (trying to) set up the (ideally) peer to peer video connection. One thing you could try is to switch to a mobile device using data if you're having trouble matching with folks from your wifi; it's possible that firewalls are causing problems.

but i also definitely have more work to do to pair people in a more intelligent way so that video is likely to actually work - I put off doing this because I wasn't sure if anyone was actually going to enjoy playing!

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