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This is what osmeta did (bought by Facebook). I believe it shipped in whatsapp and messenger (see https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1007428817579859969 https:
by LegNeato 3y ago
This is what osmeta did (bought by Facebook). I believe it shipped in whatsapp and messenger (see https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1007428817579859969 https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1007428817579859969, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11599617 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11599617) but later fell out of favor and was replaced with react native and pure native rewrites.
- saagarjha 3y agoMassive shame, honestly. Interesting technology that basically got used once and then discarded.
- TazeTSchnitzel 3y agoA little bird told me that they wanted to open-source it but they were waiting for the Oracle v Google lawsuit to conclude, and that dragged on a long time, so maybe they have up.
- TazeTSchnitzel 3y ago*gave up
- kridsdale3 3y agoThe team was folded in to the VR/AR org (I presume to develop an applications API that the universe of app developers would be familiar with), but it floundered and went nowhere. I heard this from someone who was on the team, I was not allowed to actually join or work with them, because I had worked for Apple previously and they were afraid of the Andy Rubin issue, where iOS's actual source code existed in my brain, so theoretically Apple could sue Facebook.