Amazon bought GooCreate after it went bankrupt and became this.
My first impression of this is that Sumerian is to Aframe as UiPath is to VB, where the former is WebVR and the latter is Automation
Browser support? Firefox 72 (Ubuntu snap install) on the skate demo I get a 'not supported' screen, but following the trail to the release notes they claim Firefox 61 or newer support. Works with Chromium (Ubuntu snap install) after clicking through a warning and waiting for the load screen.
I wonder - are there importing tools already written that that imports complex 3d files from, say, blender, or other apps?
Am I the only person who gets annoyed at names like this that step on search results for existing topics?
I expect it is a nod to Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash," which was a book focused on virtual reality that put the Sumerian language in a central role.
Good question. I agree that this is a problem but I wonder whether it is mitigated somewhat by search engine customization. I think the set of people that are simultaneously interested in Sumerian (the product) and Sumerian (all things relating to Sumer, the people of Babylon, etc.) is relatively small I imagine?
Just clicking their skate example lead to a very long loading page. Not exactly a great user experience.
I'll have to investigate how the rendering is done - webassembly, webrtc? Straight JS?