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by ngokevin 9y ago
Nope, perhaps in the future. But we open source all of the reusable components and backport loads of fixes back to the A-Frame, which is open source, which we spend a considerable amount of time maintaining.
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Thanks for posting! networked-aframe is great, can't wait for it to continue to improve. We're the creators and maintainers of A-Frame and just went through the last YC batch as Supermedium ( https://news.ycombinator.com
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Yeah, it's the latency in the Firefox browser on Vive. Not with A-Frame, but there's some delay communicating with the SDK and transferring that data specially on SteamVR.
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Thanks! We created A-Frame and are now also building Supermedium (YC W18), a fully VR browser. If you're interested in RPO, we build an OASIS in a week (with A-Frame) featured on Supermedium: https://supermedium.com/blo
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Hey, one of the A-Frame creators here. Looking past the markup, A-Frame is closer to a Unity-esque web framework (based on ECS) than a standard declarative file format. An ECS-based three.js framework that has some DOM flavor. Developing wi
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by ngokevin 9y ago
I agree, that browsing the 2D Web in a VR headset is not very compelling, but I can see it being the first step for many companies to do. If you're interested, we've built/shipped a full 3D/VR browser as part of the YC W
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Check out Supermedium, part of the last YC batch. We're doing exactly that. A full VR browser that runs on Web technology, but trying to seem indistinguishable from native VR. Worlds load in seconds, people publish via Web, access via
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by ngokevin 9y ago
I can crack my fingers repeatedly by crossing my index/middle and ring/pinky fingers together respectively and closing my fist.
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Don't have a video but: packed a bit in a green room backstage (a room with water and snacks), about 25 startups at a time, either muttering the pitches to ourselves or watching the startup on stage on a small TV. High-fiving and congr
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by ngokevin 9y ago
The pantyhose mafia.
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by ngokevin 9y ago
YC companies go up as "Launch HN".
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by ngokevin 9y ago
141 this batch. There's some detailed info in the article.
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Awesome! Can't wait to no longer have to yell "ALEXA. HEY ALEXA" -> "sorry I could not find birdroom lights".
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by ngokevin 9y ago
It was overhyped, as with any new technology, but hardware always gets cheaper and better fast. Not close to mainstream right now, it's still very early adopter mode. But prices of Rift/Vive have about halved in the last year, and
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Tweaking lighting technically is easy. To find the right values is a bit more subjective. A-Frame uses sort of phong with PBR capabilities, but the PBR pieces aren't used often. You can use different shaders, tweak the materials, bake
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Yeah, document.querySelector('a-scene').scene provides you the three.js scene, you can dump whatever you want in there.
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Actually, on the contrary, we prefer A-Frame be used as a framework over three.js, and not trying to abstract it. It's sort of a way to organize/encapsulate three.js code as a declarative ECS framework.
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Nice article Josh! I'm one of the co-creators and current maintainers of A-Frame. Let me know if you have questions as well! We're currently part of the YC batch as Supermedium, we built an entire VR browser using A-Frame. http:&
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Hey, we're most of the creators of A-Painter (along with Fernando Serrano from Mozilla). If you like A-Painter, check out what we're doing now with Supermedium (YC W18), a full VR browser. We're featuring A-Painter there, and
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by ngokevin 9y ago
We already built a full VR browser, part of the current YC batch: https://supermedium.com
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by ngokevin 9y ago
If you are asking about YC program acceptance, then many, many startups are accepted pre-product, pre-prototype, sometimes even pre-idea. If you only have mockups, then there will be weight on your team background and history.
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Can you read from memory? Speedrunners use programs that auto-split (detect when the runner has reached a certain stage of the game), I think by reading from memory.
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Nice! We've been demoing this one at YC dinners a lot. People always enjoy this one. Always funny to see people's reactions when their origami floats away, and we need to teach them how to reset it.
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by ngokevin 9y ago
If you want to try it in VR, we are featuring it in Supermedium, a full VR browser, which makes Origami Simulator easy to access (click a link in VR). It's been one of the more popular VR sites to visit! https://supermedium.
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by ngokevin 9y ago
To add one, we launched on HN couple days ago (Supermedium, a full VR browser for Web-based VR content) and missed the blog post. We'd fall into VR :)
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Thanks! I don't think in the short term we will work on virtual desktop / browser like features, but some people have played with them in WebVR ( https://jonathanzwhite.github.io/screenvr/ ). Focusing on true i
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Speaking to the Web side of Janus, they have a good platform of thousands of VR sites. The difference is that Janus is a content platform and tool on the Web, and Supermedium is a VR browser for that Web. They would fit together. You could
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Yeah, I remember! I think using I-Frames would have been best, or something like https://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_multiple_elements which uses one renderer but masks to make it seem like multiple scenes.
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by ngokevin 9y ago
It sounds like a fun idea. We'll experiment.
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by ngokevin 9y ago
Yeah, I think so? Like parse the HTML and present it in a nice way in VR? That might be interesting for us to show VR content stand-in for non-VR sites (like Wikipedia) from our browser.

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