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Comment by porridgeraisin | Hacker News Reader

Interested to know why Deutsche telekom sponsored this

For an E2E worlds solution, so this https://github.com/vircadia/vircadia-web and this https://github.com/vircadia/vircadia-native-core except heavily condensed so it's easier to modify/upgrade for each new bespoke use case.

Our old system, being very monolithic, while extremely performant and capable, was nearly impossible to adapt and change. So what we have now is much more dynamic but also still a work in progress, a more complete example will be published in the coming weeks.

My guess is money laundering, given that the product is pretty vapourware-y (as a game dev in a past life: Vircadia looks more like 'how a web dev thinks multiplayer games work' aka basically unusable in a serious title).

I think you fundamentally misunderstand the stack. Their main usage of the platform has to do with a E2E solution with avatars, audio, etc. all synced without issue. These features ship with the client and other private repositories wrapping the core.

However, for usage to HN users they would be (likely) more interested in the SDK, the core, the underlying system, and how it can fit their use cases.

If you want to understand a small part of the scale of this project, you are welcome to check out:

https://github.com/vircadia/vircadia-web https://github.com/vircadia/vircadia-web-sdk https://github.com/vircadia/vircadia-native-core

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