Re:Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D
by noknownsender on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @01:14PM
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I dig the museum layout style.
It really popped on r/gonewild
Uh, yeah, so, for anyone who didn't realise: r/gonewild is very much NSFW. I have just been educated on this point myself.
Do you support VR in any way? Can I use this in my Oculus Quest browser?
Re:Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D
by TuringTest on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:29PM
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Firefox Reality works on Oculus Quest, it's worth a try.
https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2180252408763702/?l...
Re:Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D
by masterspy7 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:03AM
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I just added WebVR support! You can enable it by clicking on the headset icon in the bottom right
Re:Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D
by alltalk10000 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @01:26PM
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Second that!
Well done, adding in some nice lighting from three.js or glslsandbox.com style would awesome.
Art Gallery:
Earth Natural Art Gallery
This is very nice?
Can it be arrange as artworks on the wall in a long hallway? Or in a maze?
Please share your thought process, how you get idea to build something like this?
Not trying to flame the guy since he obviously put in a lot of work on his own, but the original idea is from a lainchan thread [1] for the 3d anonymous imageboard 3dchan [2]. I'm only assuming they're not the same person since this project is not on the 3dchan owner's github [3]. Again, the two are quite clearly different, and parallel creativity does exist in the realm of possibility, but my personal guess is he used the same concept to build something similar.
[1] https://lainchan.org/%CE%A9/res/17698.html
There's no "original idea" here. It's an obvious idea I presumed most people have had. At least I have and I haven't seen any of these before so I don't see why he couldn't have made this independently of 3dchan.
Re:Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D
by georgewsinger on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @07:41PM
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See also JanusVR for an even older incarnation of this idea (https://janusvr.com/).
To go back further, there's the old classic psDooM which lets you hunt down and kill processes on your server: http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
Same question here - a long time ago when I first became a PO it was because I told my boss about an idea I'd had where our users could walk around our site - a little like this (this was a site aimed at kids). But this was 15 years ago and likely wouldn't have been half as cool! They asked me to rebuild the site anyway - though I was far far more traditional in my delivery in the end.
His implementation may be new but the idea of interfacing with content in a 3D manner isn't. I remember trying out a 3D desktop program around 2003 and if I recall correctly, it came with a game demo disc.
Re:Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D
by thefifthsetpin on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @02:27PM
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Is there a way to invert (or even just disable) the y-axis?
Just spin your mouse around 180 degrees
I would love to invert the y-axis, too.
Same. I guess we're in some kind of weird minority...
Played more flying games than FPS ones growing up? ;-)
I played a fair bit of both, but inverted always just felt more natural to me. I swear early FPS games had it that way by default, but maybe I'm mis-remembering! Definitely hard for me to grok how people prefer the 'normal' way though.
How do you make it stop so you can move your mouse to other tabs/parts of the browser?
Press the Escape key on your keyboard to regain mouse control
On Desktop, Ctrl-l works for focussing on the "location" input, too.
I spent like a full minute trying to figure this out before remembering I could just physically touch those other parts/tabs of the browser.
Pretty cool! My vision keeps shifting to the left though if I don't actively counter-rotate to the right. It makes it a bit hard to keep looking at the same object.
Re:Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D
by masterspy7 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:32PM
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Updated discord link, first one expired:
https://discord.gg/sZrw5hT
I love it! Thanks for sharing under-the-hood stuff!
Can't get it to work on Firefox on Android.
Works for me on FF 68.1 on Android. /r/gifs doesn't though
Do you filter NSFW stuff by default?
Re:Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D
by masterspy7 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @01:12PM
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Right now it just loads whatever the subreddit returns. I'm working on adding an option for that. If you want to browse a SFW one you can just pick a subreddit you know is SFW:
Why would you want that?
Re:Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D
by ghostbrainalpha on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @02:16PM
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I clicked on the link at work and had an embarrassing moment as sexy Game of Thrones cosplay popped up for my boss.
Mobile: Dragging on left half of screen is move, right have is look
Append any subreddit to the url to switch subreddits
Tech stack - Babylon.js for the 3d rendering engine
- Google Cloud Function which queries Reddit Api and then transforms the data depending on the data type
- For images: Transform and serve through https://images.weserv.nl
- For videos (try /r/gifs, experimental) gets a url which can be played through a <video> tag, which is later copied frame by frame to a texture
- For websites, use puppeteer to take a screenshot
- For multiplayer (you can see other people in the same subreddit as you) https://colyseus.io/ and App Engine Flexible
- For chat, Firestore
Also, apologies for only having one avatar option! I wanted to add different genders, characters etc but didn't have time for the MVP!
Discord for more discussion: https://discord.gg/nrxQnT