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Thank you for that very considerate compliment!
Can you explain what would offer this to you: we are happy to learn and take this into consideration!
Have you tried comparing it to the credit card? The size of these kinds of cards are pretty standard internationally.
That is indeed a diffuser umbrella :) If you count all color separably we currently have over 1500 phones in our catalog. We plan to add these to Hotspot and also make sure that new phones are available on the Hotspot website close after launch. We will probably announce new releases on our Facebook page.
Moving parts is something we have experience with but have not included in the current version.
1.5MB might indeed sound a lot if you compare it to a single image. On the other hand if you look at a regular 360 viewer this takes often about 10MB of data. Also we want the phones to look really (really) good. This means that we need to put quite a lot of detail into things like corners and buttons.
Permalinks is definitely something we want to add in the short run!
We know about GLTF but are not (yet) using it in production. Main reason for this is that our scene description is a bit more complex that the GLTF format currently allows.
Thanks for the nice words: it is actually pretty tricky to get this right. What works on "paper" often feels very weird in reality. Restricting the navigation in this way allowed us to minimize the chance that you get lost in a weird pose and it also makes sure that the phones will always stay within a certain region of the screen.
We are the same company, although I started working here about 6 months ago. This is a brand new site we have just launched. The phones themselves, we did already have a few of them, but the P20 models just got announced by Huawei today.
The core team is about 10 people, and we do projects like this every now and then. :)
Hi, I'm one of the team at Binkies3D over in Holland. We just launched Hotspot 3D today. I hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it. :)
Whilst there are websites that let you compare the specs of phones, we wanted to compare the shape and size. There are currently 19 phones on Hotspot 3D, but we actually have the models for many more. We just chose the most popular ones for now.
It's especially difficult to tell the difference between 'plus' models without a physical reference, so that is where this idea came from.
The phones themselves are around 1.5MB each and are rendered using our own custom engine in webGL. The java-script itself is only 40kb, and works on mobile as well.
Thanks for taking a look, and I would love to hear any feedback or comments you have.
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binkies3d on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:22AM
from the show-hn dept.