Happy to answer any questions from HN folks, to the extent I can. I love this community and have been here since 2007.
Matt do you guys still use the office in the US Bank Building in the mission?
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> and it's worth calling out that the SSO tax has mostly nothing to do with technology or with support costs
I'm surprised this is at the top. My experience, and the experience of nearly all the commenters below, is that SSO is by far the biggest support burden they have.
SSO costs extra because it costs extra to support them. Market segmentation is a nice side effect though.
I ran a company that did price segmentation on SSO, and it's the other way around. The burden of supporting the buggy piece of crap that is SAML SSO is the cost of the privilege of being able to perform such sharp segmentation.
So, what you're saying that there's a a business opportunity not only on the software service side, but the logistic/equipment side as well!
> and rigged to be out of each other's lines of sight
I think there's a misunderstanding of the industry here, if you think the viewing audience will be concerned about some poorly disguised cameras at the edges of the scene.
The ones paying $20 for the viewing? I think so.
i hate to be that buy... but the adult video industry is sleeping if they dont implement this lol
People often say this about vr, but I think the truth is that consumers of adult videos are not motivated enough and the production costs outweigh the benefits. The demo scenes here were each captured on about 20 cameras, each carefully synchronized and rigged to be out of each other's lines of sight. Add the expertise and time to train the models (still more like pets than cattle) and we're getting into movie ticket territory and away from tube site
Bluntly, if you have to ask on hacker news, you are not equipped to handle this situation and should look to either exit or enlist more capable help. Your quandary is so contingent on the specifics of you, your cofounder, and the competing directions of the company that no good advice regarding a direct action to take is possible here. That you would ask in this forum is a very bad sign that either communications have broken down or you have not attempted a conciliation.
This is fantastic.
I've been trying to build something myself for biological and heritage captures. Could you elaborate at all on the JS decoder method used or resources that ended up enabling you to make it?
I've been playing with Playcanvas React for the past week, would your method integrate with their platform?
We're trying to get this upstreamed so I actually expect PlayCanvas to talk about it in the future. Here's the reference (cpu) decoder: https://github.com/vincentwoo/blog/blob/master/3d/sutro_towe..., as well as a gpu one: https://github.com/vincentwoo/blog/blob/master/3d/sutro_towe....
For more information on the format itself you can look at https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/gsplat/blob/main/gspla....
What is the limiting factor for level of detail here? Is it the source data (too low res camera/too far away), the processing, or getting it rendered in real-time in browser? Is this the full detail, or is this somehow downsampled/compressed version for the web?
The processing and alignment of source imagery, imo
it so nearly runs on a Quest 3. The next gen of mobile XR chipsets (or maybe even the current gen with less thermal throttling) are going to be able to handle these kinds of scenes with a bit more optimization.
there is still some perf headroom in software to get, too!
This is great but please implement mouse look! It makes it way more immersive and is the lingua franca of FPS interactions.
You can free look with the right mouse button
very cool, reminds me of watchdogs. where's the music from? it's very calming
It's actually a mix my girlfriend made, but the main track is https://soundcloud.com/martinlandh/moonlit-serenity