Exactly. I felt the same way when I watched their most recent videos. I kept thinking that there were things like GSAP which were already available that produce kick ass fluid animations for HTML. IIRC, their founder also said things like their framework wasn't easy to work with, but if you learn it and stick with it you can do great things. That's true of Javascript/WebGL, etc, already, so why bother with their framework at all?
The animation on the site you linked to is very janky and that's part of the problem with building mobile apps using web tech, it's really hard to get a solid 60 fps. If these guys cracked the problem then there is definitely a huge market for it.
Re:Famo.us Demos
by danceonfire on Thursday March 27, 2014 @10:14AM
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Some of their demos run really bad on my machine. If they cracked the problem, they aren't showing it yet.
Today #GSAP is the state of art, if you want futuristic UX, spend a few minutes exploring this site UX: http://intothearctic.gp (get past 'start exploring')
Today it is a solution looking for a problem and no market.