from the programming-in-cuneiform-script dept.
Amazon launches Sumerian, a browser-based tool for building AR, VR experiences
Amazon is jumping onto the augmented and virtual reality bandwagon with the launch of Sumerian, a new application that's supposed to make it easier for people to develop 3D experiences for a wide variety of platforms.
The browser-based tool is available in limited preview today. At launch, Sumerian enables developers to put 3D models together in scenes for use in VR and AR applications. It includes an object library full of models that people can put to use, as well as support for importing assets from FBX and OBJ files.
On top of this, developers get access to a set of "hosts" — 3D characters that they can customize to interact with an end user. These hosts integrate with Amazon Polly and Lex to provide natural language capabilities similar to those underpinning the Alexa virtual assistant.
Sounds like a tool to build tiny AI-populated versions of Second Life.
Amazon Sumerian: "The fastest and easiest way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences".
Also at TechCrunch and SiliconAngle.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 29 2017, @08:34AM (2 children)
It's Unity with night-mode theme and integration with Alexa!
That does not compute.
Please allow me to walk you through the holocaust, in which a White man with White privilege killed six-million Jewish people with his bare hands, in cold blood. Now allow yourself to atone for your sins by being killed by six-million Muslims.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @10:44AM (1 child)
If all it takes to stop the Muslims and Jews being a concern for the today's world is 6 million Muslims to kill Ethanol-Fueled, I'm afraid I'd be quite tempted to say "By all means, go ahead".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @09:33PM
Tempted? TEMPTED? I know we all like to believe in our moral superiority and test it with ridiculous hypotheticals like the Trolley Problem, but come ON! That is some guilt I think we can all live with. It will probably prevent another mass shooting in the US too, bonus effect.
(Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Wednesday November 29 2017, @01:31PM
Is that name another reference to Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash? I can't see why they would think "Sumerian" would describe this thing otherwise.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:14PM (1 child)
webgl and javascript to load models. second life "on the webs". how long before we have hardware drivers being recreated "in the browser"? after all, how best to get 1000Hz position information into your time-critical, real-time javascript browser app? Or has this already been done? That's it. I'm out. Javascript was a mistake. Browsers themselves may have been a mistake. Nuke it all from orbit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @06:03PM
The whole universe was a mistake.