Not trying to flame the guy since he obviously put in a lot of work on his own, but the original idea is from a lainchan thread [1] for the 3d anonymous imageboard 3dchan [2]. I'm only assuming they're not the same person since this project is not on the 3dchan owner's github [3]. Again, the two are quite clearly different, and parallel creativity does exist in the realm of possibility, but my personal guess is he used the same concept to build something similar.
Same question here - a long time ago when I first became a PO it was because I told my boss about an idea I'd had where our users could walk around our site - a little like this (this was a site aimed at kids). But this was 15 years ago and likely wouldn't have been half as cool! They asked me to rebuild the site anyway - though I was far far more traditional in my delivery in the end.
His implementation may be new but the idea of interfacing with content in a 3D manner isn't. I remember trying out a 3D desktop program around 2003 and if I recall correctly, it came with a game demo disc.
Pretty cool! My vision keeps shifting to the left though if I don't actively counter-rotate to the right. It makes it a bit hard to keep looking at the same object.
Right now it just loads whatever the subreddit returns. I'm working on adding an option for that. If you want to browse a SFW one you can just pick a subreddit you know is SFW:
Love this. Was much better than I expected since you also showed other users, what they were looking at, and let us have personalities like looking at each other and nodding yes/no which kept cracking me up.
A few people were at the Game of Thrones Cosplay submission (an image of two cute women in costumes) looking at each other and nodding. Some people formed a conga line.
It's easy to imagine stopping this project when you have the basic rendering + WASD working, but the multiplayer aspect was simple and fun.
Amazing! I might just use this as my go-to reddit app moving forward...
A couple suggestions: any chance movement could be a bit faster? I'd rather run through the museum if given the chance, just as I can scroll quickly through reddit. Maybe I'm just too used to playing CSGO and expect my character to move a bit faster
I kinda wish it included some slight head bobbing to, but I guess that's a matter of preference.
I like the casual nature of walking through a museum, but I agree with having a faster option. Possibly allow sprinting with shift key or as an alternative allowing double tapping of the wasd keys to run.
I made a similar (single-player) version a bunch of years ago when Mozilla first released WebVR or whatever they called it back then! https://github.com/mrspeaker/InternetExplorer - The controls were weird (they were ok in VR): wsad + arrows, and "enter" loaded any linked subreddits.
That is good fun. What's interesting is the amount of thought I'm willing to give something that's virtually hanging on a wall over an onscreen sentence in a list.
On a different note, one of the images from a Bloomberg post was simply showing "We've detected unusual activity from your computer network" and the usual reCaptcha "I'm not a robot" box.
Please join me in condemning such hostile behaviour of web sites. Of course it's 'unusual activity', it's unusually creative, and it's what the Internet used to be about.
I actually followed the "rules" of the walls myself, until my forward key got stuck and I started phasing through things. I never even thought to check the clipping.
Rendering quality would be greatly improved by generating mipmaps for your rendered text [1]. It's unclear how you're rendering text in Babylon, but you might have to use a slightly different approach to improve quality.
r/Art and related subreddits really lend themselves to this. As the documenting of "related subreddits" is not standardized, reddit.com/dev/api has no way of listing them. Some write a /wiki/related page, most have it in the sidebar. Would make for an opportunity to add a webring-like "next" button.
Readit News
Mobile: Dragging on left half of screen is move, right have is look
Append any subreddit to the url to switch subreddits
Tech stack - Babylon.js for the 3d rendering engine
- Google Cloud Function which queries Reddit Api and then transforms the data depending on the data type
- For images: Transform and serve through https://images.weserv.nl
- For videos (try /r/gifs, experimental) gets a url which can be played through a <video> tag, which is later copied frame by frame to a texture
- For websites, use puppeteer to take a screenshot
- For multiplayer (you can see other people in the same subreddit as you) https://colyseus.io/ and App Engine Flexible
- For chat, Firestore
Also, apologies for only having one avatar option! I wanted to add different genders, characters etc but didn't have time for the MVP!
Discord for more discussion: https://discord.gg/nrxQnT
It really popped on r/gonewild
https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2180252408763702/?l...
Art Gallery:
https://3dforreddit.com/r/art
Earth Natural Art Gallery
https://3dforreddit.com/r/EarthPorn
Can it be arrange as artworks on the wall in a long hallway? Or in a maze?
[1] https://lainchan.org/%CE%A9/res/17698.html
[2] https://3dchan.net/dungeon/
[3] https://github.com/AlexKrunch/AnonIB-3D
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A few people were at the Game of Thrones Cosplay submission (an image of two cute women in costumes) looking at each other and nodding. Some people formed a conga line.
It's easy to imagine stopping this project when you have the basic rendering + WASD working, but the multiplayer aspect was simple and fun.
A couple suggestions: any chance movement could be a bit faster? I'd rather run through the museum if given the chance, just as I can scroll quickly through reddit. Maybe I'm just too used to playing CSGO and expect my character to move a bit faster
I kinda wish it included some slight head bobbing to, but I guess that's a matter of preference.
I can't be the only one who unnecesarily jumps around in every game unless it's penalized by some sort of stamina system.
Surprisingly it seems like it still works (http://mrspeaker.github.io/InternetExplorer/ - though it seems that only certain image formats are loading now)
On a different note, one of the images from a Bloomberg post was simply showing "We've detected unusual activity from your computer network" and the usual reCaptcha "I'm not a robot" box.
Please join me in condemning such hostile behaviour of web sites. Of course it's 'unusual activity', it's unusually creative, and it's what the Internet used to be about.
Seriously, great job, supremely disorienting - it almost felt like the Internet again.
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLRender...
Really make yourself feel at home:
https://3dforreddit.com/r/art
A favorite of mine that seems very well suited.