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Amazon Sumerian: A way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences
- ane 9y agoThe name has to be a reference to Snow Crash.
- stesch 9y agoWARNING: "Snow Crash" is a comedy! Over the years people mentioned the book in comments about metaverses and VR. But nobody said it was a comedy. I was buying it with the expectation of getting some serious science fiction about a topic I'm interested in. Instead it starts off with some pizza delivery science fiction parody.
- mmjaa 9y agoI think you need to listen to reason. Snow Crash is serious business!
- JetSpiegel 9y agoReason is capitalised, unless you mean actual reason.
- kazagistar 9y agoWhy can't it be both?
- throwanem 9y agoKeep reading.
- apsdsm 9y agoMan, I could really go some pizza delivery science fiction parody right about now...
- fsloth 9y agoHumoristic books can be also the poignant. Humour does not invalidate an authors observation of human condition.
- Stefan-H 9y agoSerious science fiction does not need to be bereft of comedy. Satirical science fiction, like many of the works of Vonnegut, are hilarious and ludicrous, but no less science fiction for that fact.
- stesch 9y agoI've read comedy science fiction and horror. I don't have a problem with it per se. I just haven't expected it in this case and it was really stupid.
- ehsanu1 9y agoTry: 1. Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge 2. Otherland, by Tad Williams
- hub2017 9y agoSo American pop-sci-fi, not the ancient civilization?
- modeless 9y agoLooks 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 are putting into building game engines? I'm not aware of any games built in Lumberyard at all, though I haven't been paying much attention. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/ https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/
- tudorw 9y agoIf they can get some attractive software and prime some devs ready for their new AR device it may be worth it.
- modeless 9y ago> their new AR device I haven't heard this rumor, care to fill us in?
- SirHound 9y agoI'd be interested too, though I'd be surprised if they weren't all at it. Especially those who missed out on the smartphone thing.
- tudorw 9y agoIndeed :) Me too... I'm just assuming, given they have a captive audience, the hardware chops to deliver electronic devices at scale and a huge pile of cash, they would be foolish not to be working on it, while Google Glass was a headline failure, the Hololens most certainly is not, it's just received it's safety rating for on site use, the applications I've seen in use in industrial design show that this technology is not going away. hang on... [edit] "Amazon working on first wearables to interact with Alexa Company’s ‘smart glasses’ would come with in-home virtual assistant embedded" Sept 20, 2017 oh, look, https://www.ft.com/content/d7862042-9d9a-11e7-8cd4-932067fbf946 https://www.ft.com/content/d7862042-9d9a-11e7-8cd4-932067fbf...
- veli_joza 9y agoThis is product launch? Where is the product page? API docs? How does Sumerian relate to Lumberyard, the other Amazon 3D engine? They demonstrate basic placing of 3D objects in environment, what about UI?
- pjmlp 9y agoI also did not understood, it looks like half-finished article.
- cylinder 9y agoWhat's Amazon really trying to do here?
- gpestana 9y agoTaking over the world. I mean, they've been pretty much copying and improving any other web service/tool/cloud service. Why not VR creation and eventually a VR market? It seems to me that this is just like another AWS move towards being in as many markets and fronts as possible.
- j_jochem 9y agoMaybe they want to evaluate VR commerce. That’s the only explanation that makes any kind of sense to me right now.
- Tepix 9y agoI 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.
- dbbk 9y agoIf 3D TVs failed to reach mass adoption why would this?
- suyash 9y agoBest news to my years. Unity is bloated and needs serious competition. +1 for using JavaScript for scripting.
- bpicolo 9y agoThis looks to be targeting enterprise-style VR products rather than games. Sales training in VR, etc. Lumberyard is their game engine
- Tepix 9y agoI assume this is based on the CryEngine they licensed? Can someone shed some light on the differences between Amazon Lumberyard and Amazon Sumerian?
- FreeHugs 9y agoBack in the day, I really loved Poser on the Mac. Is there a good web-based or free linux alternative these days? Something you can use to create realistic humans?
- pathompong 9y agoMakeHuman is what you are looking for. http://www.makehuman.org/ http://www.makehuman.org/
- srikz 9y agoOr the fork of MakeHuman from its creator [0] - http://manuelbastioni.com/ http://manuelbastioni.com/ [0]: I may be remembering it wrong.
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- bdz 9y agoLooks like Sims
- cheeaun 9y agoomg took me some time to find the actual product page: https://aws.amazon.com/sumerian/ https://aws.amazon.com/sumerian/
- Bobbleoxs 9y agoThank you! I've fished around a bit without success.
- veli_joza 9y agoWelcome to the future! Throught the magic of Virtual Reality, we can now transform your boring 2D slides into perspective-mapped boring 2D slides [1]! Incredible! /s [1] https://d1.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/Sumerian/sumerian_landingpage_howitworks4.53fbe8df9907c25c6e54d52381815b0724c836e9.png https://d1.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/Sumerian/sumerian...
- pjmlp 9y agoSo basically the VRML demos are back.
- jackhack 9y agoYes, of course, but it's IN THE CLOUD, don't you see? I'm waiting for 10 years from now when we rediscover the ability to write native applications in one language that run on the local OS & processor. No doubt it will be promoted as a magical cure-all elixir.
- jackhack 9y agoWelcome to the future, indeed! Where we do simple things in the most complicated way possible. No more boring screen wipe, dissolve, or fade transitions from one slide to another... Now we have tumbling 3D transitions that induce vomiting to show our bullet-points and walls-of-text. Steve Jobs was right when he said Powerpoint slides were for people who don't know what they're doing.
- Nicholas7900 9y agoUsing email is one of my favorite ways of breaking into an organization! Usually, I will send out 10 emails to different employees. Out of those 10 people, 5 will click the link that I included. Of the 5 people, two or three will tell me their real work username and password. Pretty scary, isn't it? Why are they so interested? Why would they give me their passwords? The email that I send does not look like a scam from a rich prince in an African nation. Instead, it looks like a professional email from a company conducting a survey on behalf of the employee’s organization. Who wouldn’t be interested in filling out a survey about Salary Satisfaction? Once they click on the link, they are taken to a login page. It is then than an average of 25% of the people emailed submit their passwords. This is where the fun begins! If the company is using Microsoft Exchange (email server), I can use their credentials to synchronize a copy of their email onto my computer. Once it is synchronized, I can create a client-side rule that runs a program every time a certain email is received. This rule will synchronize over Exchange across all the computers that use that persons account. Once they receive the special email, my program runs on the victim’s computer. Another option in which i can use to Hack a computer through email is to send a user a malicious Word document. However, that usually requires building up a context where it would make sense for that attachment to be opened. Recently, I received a very interesting attachment. It was an obvious attempt to break into my computer using a malicious Word document. It came at a time where I was needing a more effective payload to send to my potential victims. I was so grateful to the hacker for introducing me to a new technique that I replied with a thank you note. The Word document contained an embedded object that appeared to be a another document. But in reality, it was a VB Script that would launch a malicious payload. Fascinating! FOR URGENT PROFESSIONAL HACKING ADVICE & HACKING SERVICES, you can reach out to me via compositehacks@gmail.com Image may contain: text
- magoon 9y agoIntegration with other services is the key. This could help offload some of the heavy lifting publishers have to deal with around infrastructure.
- allpratik 9y agoCan you explain it little bit further? Which kind of services are we are talking about here?
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- neya 9y agoI have a different perspective on all this. Alibaba, recently did something with VR[1][2] Shopping and had good success with it (in China). I think, Amazon might simply be trying to experiment with it to see if it works outside of China. And for this, of course, they need a platform to build on, just like they did with AWS. I'm also quite curious to know how all this turns out. If we'll be seeing "Total Recall" style ads around us, thanks to Amazon, Google and Facebook, then in which case, we're screwed. [1] http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/11/28/alibaba-vr-shopping-stevens-pkg.cnn http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/11/28/alibaba-vr-sh... [2] http://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/07/18/alibaba-merges-online-and-offline-shopping-experience-with-three-new-physical-stores http://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/07/18/alibaba-merges-online...
- gbrits 9y agoA 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 like Amazon Sumerian to do a 3d-walkthrough. Any advice on where to look?
- bhouston 9y agoWe support creating interactive experiences with our https://threekit.com https://threekit.com toolset.
- jackhack 9y agoEverything old is new again: We did that exact thing 30 years ago: Auto-Graph Computer Designing Systems' "Kitchen & Bath design". Draw walls on grid paper. Choose placement of items. View in 3d. It was used at home improvement stores to preview remodeling efforts for the consumer. We had a package dedicated to wire shelving, too called ClosetDesign that let you drag objects from a 2D palette onto a 3d surface. It would produce a materials list and even print drilling templates for the support brackets. And again 20 years ago with Virtus Walkthrough. A visualization tool for architects. Both companies are long gone. Now you can pick up simple architectural design software on a CD at officemax for $5. There's probably a free package online. Sumerian is feeling like the same thing "but on the cloud." Maybe I shouldn't knock it. Entire careers were built taking manual processes and "putting them on the computer" so people could do bad work faster.
- modeless 9y agoSketchUp might be the closest thing to what you're looking for.
- dlgeek 9y agoTry sweet home 3d. It's free and open source and designed specially for home design cad (really great for figuring out furniture layouts).
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- nautilus12 9y agoAll that nerd culture love stuff in the beginning bugged me enough that I didnt want to read the rest of the article. For some of us this is a career and we dont really play into to the whole nerd is beautiful movement.
- pkage 9y agoIt struck me as one of those "I'm a marketing person who googled a bunch of terms to try to relate" kind of statements.
- jackhack 9y agoSame here, it turns me away. If somebody has to tell me what a cool geek girl they are to try and buy credibility, then they are already losing. Maybe I'm just cynical, but my BS detector starts alerting. A real technologist doesn't have to advertise the fact. I'd rather just read what the author has to say and not even notice who is behind the keyboard.
- user1713952 9y agoThe GUI is reminiscent of that of goocreate: https://app.goocreate.com https://app.goocreate.com https://learn.goocreate.com https://learn.goocreate.com
- hccampos 9y agoIt is the evolution of it indeed. Amazon got the code after Goo Technologies went bankrupt, added some integrations with AWS and rebranded it.
- e-nouri 9y agoI think this will destroy some dreams :-/ Mine included, I am/was working about something similar.
- jplur 9y agoTools aren't a zero sum game, go make your thing ;)
- codesternews 9y agoRecently they have added ARView made with ARKit on iOS. I think moving forward they think the future in AR, VR and provide their vendors and other developer to build on this platform. This is really forward thinking approach and it is kind of same they had done with AWS in 2000.
- bhouston 9y agoThis is clearly based on Goo Create, which went bankrupt a few years ago: https://goocreate.com 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-MannequinAsset.png https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2017/Sumerian-07-Ma... And this screenshot of Goo Create: https://learn.goocreate.com/manual/editor/create-ui.png 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 https://twitter.com/BenAtExocortex/status/935158702180417536
- BatFastard 9y agoWow, too similar to not be a descendant.
- pen2l 9y agoSaying 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.
- bhouston 9y agoYou do not understand. I am not saying it is similar or inspired, it is the same app. I assure you I am not mistaken in this claim.
- philtar 9y agoI don't know why you have to be so condescending with your comment, but as someone who has used Goo Create, I am willing to bet money that it is the same app.