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Comment by crazygringo | Hacker News Reader

Maybe I'm missing something but I don't understand the multiplayer aspect -- I'm in the interactive Chrome browser I can play with, but there's nobody else here. I'm not browsing together with anybody.

If it matters, the HN link redirects for me to:

https://threejs-example.hyperbeam.com/672b6071

and the ID at the end stays the same even in incognito.

Since this is on the front page and I've been waiting around for 5 minutes there must be other people using it. How is it supposed to be multiplayer?

EDIT: once I posted this comment somebody else joined, I see how it works now. Very cool. I guess it depends on winding up with a shared ID or something?

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Two weeks on, the thread is closing. Still some traces of activity in the VM. In the interest of site history, https://archive.is/https://pad.riseup.net/p/1_prWgNWMqs-Hu_b...

Oops, left off the asterisk from the end of the URL. The snapshots of individual versions are under the 'url prefix' listing.

So, the reply period is per-item! Enabling advanced necromancy...

Right now when you click the link we create a new "room" based on your IP. If you share the generated URL (like you did above) then people can join in and cobrowse with you

Maybe create a default room for the HN crowd to join? I also had the same experience as OP... "nobody is here".

Seems like the link with the specific ID in my above comment has become the de-facto shared room now, at least as long as my comment stays at the top :)

It's not very umm... cooperative, in there lol.

Yea sorry it's our bad, we didn't implement cursor time-slicing in the demo, even though we actually support it on the API: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@hyperbeam/web#setting-permiss...

Hmm, what I was thinking of was that everyone seemed to be competing with each other to click random UI elements on the virtual browser as rapidly as possible, I assume because there wasn't a way to speak with one another / coordinate. Or maybe I just missed the chat area?

Yeah we kept the MVP lean and didn't add chat or audio/video calling. Our goal (which we're not meeting) is to keep the Three.js example line count below 200.

https://github.com/hyperbeam/threejs-example

We'll probably make a new project which is more of a product and less of a code example in the future.

Looks good so far, looking forward to seeing more :)

It seems a bit of a community has formed here, with a couple of places for chat without the need of backoff algorithms:

https://pad.riseup.net/p/1_prWgNWMqs-Hu_bIi3I

https://app.kosmi.io/room/m4gsd4

“users, uh, find a way”

There's a couple ways of opening multiple windows, which enables title bar controls on every window. Minimizing and closing them softlocks to a black screen until the instance resets.

People seem to be trying really hard to get porn in the browser. There's a battle going on...

Gahh thanks for the heads up

Someone is already doing nmap online on the host

The first thing another user did was go to 4chan. I think the concept is really cool but maybe it needs a little more thought.

Yeah we didn't anticipate somebody sharing their room in the comments — we're trying our best to moderate that room.

Fingers crossed the board they went on was the papercraft & origami board.

Interesting research question: how to build features to make sharing control less chaotic and potentially moderate abuse.

But the core experience is great. Works flawlessly even on an iPhone. Congrats!

It's so funny looking at this room and seeing people tryna exploit it. And talk to each other via the search bar.

And its down haha

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