Ask HN: Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com)

http://www.assemblive.com/home/

by hme • 17 years ago

16 16 17 years ago

We've been working on this for a year now, it's fully embeddable inside any web page

Caligula• 17 years ago

I run ubuntu. Got this message:

ASSEMB'LIVE requires one the following operating systems: Windows or MacOS X. Please switch on one of these to go further.

hme4• 17 years ago

Yes, we use Unity3D, a web plugin to run hardware accelerated 3D in the browser. They don't support Linux yet, but now that they raised a huge amount of money from Sequoia they might work on it (if they want to support ChromeOS they'd better hury)

olalonde• 17 years ago

Any reason why you chose Unity3D over Google's O3D (http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/) ?

blazzerbg• 17 years ago

looks very cool, but animation can make it inappropriate for serious business events/meetings

hme4• 17 years ago

An interesting aspect of Assemblive for you, hackers, is that you can embedd a 3D+VOIP widget into any web site. You can add realtime interactions and self awareness of your visitors with only a few lines of code. Here is a screencast of it (sorry for the french accent ;) http://aworldforus.tumblr.com/post/287534616/assemblive-widg...

blake57• 17 years ago

Which accent ^^ ?

rikbold• 17 years ago

Try it now button awesome.

Steph_D• 17 years ago

thx, that was my humble contribution ;-)

joubert• 17 years ago

I like the name (although not sure how to pronounce).

"Avatar" could also be a cool name. ;-)

Xixi2• 17 years ago

On the other hand we are a French startup, so our pronunciation probably doesn't make much sense for native English speakers.

jerome_etienne• 17 years ago

nice job. instinctive and easy to use. a good tool to have virtual conference

etherealG• 17 years ago

an interesting idea, but is the 3D really necessary? I would think a multi-stream voice / video chat in normal window type interfaces like we're used to online would be better.

Even better would be to integrate with existing voice chat apps, like voice chat in googletalk, but with support for "conference calls" in video and voice.

I just don't see this as a good idea, the implementation looks great though.

hme4• 17 years ago

The whole idea of this is to allow large groups events. Think 20+ participants. Using 3D allows us to spatialize the event, while staying very dynamic. Groups can form, change, recreate just by moving. The sound is spatialized too, so it could scale to hundreds, thousands of persons. Just using regular voice would make an awful noise. 3D splits group very naturally, while staying dynamic and most of all, intuitive because it's very similar to regular networking events. It could obviously be done by creating voice groups on a "flat screen", but we strongly believe in the power of real world analogies, to make it immersive and help people understand how to behave in this.

olivier75• 17 years ago

When do you plan to leave beta stage?

Ask HN: Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com)

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