Arathorn

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by Arathorn 3y ago
Thinking more on this: the DOM API is built for XML and SGML. It’s not remotely obvious that XML is a good format for representing 3D scene graphs: X3D has hardly taken over the world, Collada has joined glTF now, nobody uses FBX etc. Meanw
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by Arathorn 3y ago
> A scene graph should be a data structure The data structure here is glTF. > Web data structures should ideally be DOM. WebSG is very close to DOM, as is obvious if you look at https://thirdroom.io/docs/websg-js&
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Third Room and Web Scene Graph: A New Web API for Spatial Collaboration(matrix.org)
3 points by Arathorn 3y ago|12 comments
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by Arathorn 3y ago
it’s always been a naughty pleasure that Matrix uses sigils both for ‘mainstream’ user IDs (@user:domain.com) and room aliases (#room:domain.com) as well as more developer focused things - $ for event IDs, ! for room IDs: https:/&#x2F
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by Arathorn 3y ago
you can calculate 2D CSS transforms which match the equivalent transforms of your WebGL scene in WebXR - as an efficient but hacky way to (for instance) do live video overlays in 3D without having to mess around importing the video texture
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by Arathorn 3y ago
this is also how the Element X rewrite of the Element Matrix client works - although with Rust rather than Zig. We had to add async support to uniffi for a good experience from Swift (and Kotlin) tho! https://youtu.be/eUPJ9z
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Unity can make glTF for it (as can Blender or anything else that exports glTF). The unity pipeline is: https://github.com/matrix-org/thirdroom-unity-exporter
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by Arathorn 3y ago
by “matrix chat 3d like things” do you mean https://thirdroom.io ? It would be super easy to build something like this on Third Room - and then get e2ee and decentralisation etc for free :)
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Element Call ( https://call.element.io ) is (very) late stage beta - it doesn’t currently use SFUs although we demonstrated one (waterfall) at FOSDEM: https://youtu.be/eUPJ9zFV5IE?t=1597 The thing keeping it in be
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by Arathorn 3y ago
I saw absolutely zero evidence or interest in malicious activity while working at Amdocs. That said, nobody from the main Amdocs org ever contributed any code or non-financial input into Matrix, nor were there any links after we span out. T
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by Arathorn 3y ago
> “The initial project was created inside Amdocs, while building a chat tool called "Amdocs Unified Communications” This is true; I created it. With a team, including myself, who had been acquired into Amdocs and operated as an inde
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by Arathorn 3y ago
All software has bugs, and the ones linked there were found in the first gen Matrix clients and had already been fixed in subsequent ones - https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/28/upgrade-now-to-address-en...
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by Arathorn 3y ago
The Matrix team has been together in various incarnations since around 2003; we came from two companies (one UK, one French) who happened to get acquired by Amdocs in 2010. I ended up running their unified communications division as an inde
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by Arathorn 3y ago
The privacy concerns you’ve linked are 4 years old, and were questionable at the time, and thoroughly outdated by now. We addressed the more valid criticisms in Sept 2019: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/27&#x
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by Arathorn 3y ago
sure! https://matrix.to/#/#thirdroom-dev:matrix.org is the right place to discuss - custom shaders would be awesome :)
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by Arathorn 3y ago
oh, wow. we have 3D Tile support in https://thirdroom.io but had only ever found NASA’s Mars dataset as a good set of tiles to point it at. This could effectively turn Third Room into a FOSS, decentralised, E2EE multiplayer Goog
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by Arathorn 3y ago
have been tracking braid since the outset - providing state sync at the HTTP layer itself is a really interesting idea. would be great to figure out how to interop the various DAG based sync systems, or at least map between them. very happy
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by Arathorn 3y ago
AT proto has some significant similarities to Matrix: * Both are work by self-authenticating git-style replication of Merkle trees/DAGs * Both define strict data schemas for extensible sets of events (Matrix uses JSON schema - https:&
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by Arathorn 3y ago
I’m guessing that if you don’t join big federated chatrooms on your Matrix server, it runs absolutely fine on minimal resources. One of the smarter things the bluesky team looks to be doing is to split the world into heavy-lifting versus pe
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by Arathorn 3y ago
or Cinny, given its country of origin... ( https://cinny.in )
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by Arathorn 3y ago
which homeserver are you on? they could simply be blocking matrix.org? (although this would already be a little tricky given matrix.org is behind cloudflare)
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by Arathorn 4y ago
I was very glad to find Lord Kamall saying sensible things about this last week in the context of the House of Lords debate - at least one person there is following the tech argument: https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse&#x
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E2EE Messengers Unite Against the UK Online Safety Bill(blog.whatsapp.com)
2 points by Arathorn 4y ago|0 comments
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by Arathorn 4y ago
also https://element.io/blog/the-uks-online-safety-bill-undermine... on the Element side, https://getsession.org/blog/open-letter-uk-online-safety-bil... on the Session side…
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Signal, WhatsApp, Element and More Unite Against the UK Online Safety Bill(bbc.co.uk)
41 points by Arathorn 4y ago|10 comments
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by Arathorn 4y ago
While it’s great to see more high profile deployments of Matrix, this is another instance of the failure mode described at https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update... where an organis
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by Arathorn 4y ago
It’s going pretty well actually - see https://matrix.org/blog/2023/03/15/the-dma-stakeholder-works... . Also lots of work like https://turt2live.github.io/ietf-mimi-linearized-matrix/
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by Arathorn 4y ago
matrix is far from dead! just hit 94M addressable users and all time high of 2M MAU on the matrix.org server (doubled in last year)
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by Arathorn 4y ago
you already can - walkie talkie mode in call.element.io
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by Arathorn 4y ago
we’re working on scheduled msgs currently (it’s hard because you don’t know what devices will be i the room by the time the msg sends, and so who to encrypt for)

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