City Space

[Rob Oplawar]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/11/liveplace-to-launch-photo-realistic-virtual-world-rendered-in-the-cloud/
,':O

discuss.

e: watch the whole thing. THe longer it goes on, the more unbelievable it gets.
And I literally mean unbelievable- idk if I really believe this. if it is for reals,
:O

[Heathen]

Fist 1:30 and I am in awe.
Looks like Mirrors Edge (or whatever that free running game is called)
The Car :O
The PIcture OGODGOADG
THE ENDING was a nerdgasm.
And what the hell.

This is gonna be Ehfing Free?

[Rentafence]

...Can I kill people in this?

[The_Wraith]

So the Matrix is real...?

[SnaFuBAR]

they go from obvious photos and video clips to their models. This is fake. If they're able to do all the crap they're promising, it sure as hell ain't photoreal.

[Heathen]

they go from obvious photos and video clips to their models.

Uh....when?

[Rob Oplawar]

they go from obvious photos and video clips to their models.
But don't you get it? Photorealistic, Snaf! :3

[Heathen]

I personally dont think I was fake :/

What do they have to gain from making a site for a fake project?

[Rentafence]

Lulz?

[Rob Oplawar]

What does anybody have to gain from hoaxes?
Attention.

Still, I think it may actually happen. I can't always be so skeptical as to dismiss everything outright. Fingers crossed.

[Choking Victim]

Update 2: According to this comment (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/11/liveplace-to-launch-photo-realistic-virtual-world-rendered-in-the-cloud/#comment-2434281), portions of the video are taken from an artist’s portfolio that may not be related to LivePlace (the video he linked to is identical to the first 10 seconds of the clip above). It’s possible that the artist works for LivePlace, but it certainly doesn’t sound like it was rendered in real time…


I'm afraid its not all real time, according to that.

[Zeph]

If it looks/sounds too go to be true...

[Rob Oplawar]

^ this. I'm afraid he's right.

[legionaire45]

I have a better solution: Go outside, get a job and buy real shit! Not only do you get a photo realistic rendering engine but you get to see real people! Maybe even have sex with them.
/credit to whoever said something like that in a sig on gbx.
The only reason I would play something like this would be to make something that isn't realistic. Example: A big Covenant ship floating in the sky. Something like that.

[Con]

I wouldn't play a life simulation, I've got my own life to spend time on. It's the games featuring stuff you can't do in RL that I play.

[ExAm]

I'd play it just to ogle the graphics

[Evil_Monkey]

He said that the server will do all the rendering, if there are so many rooms and a lot of people moving those dynamic lights around how can it possibly not lag. I personally think its fake.

[Hotrod]

If it looks/sounds too go to be true...
Yeah, just don't expect this to come out, or to be what they say it is. So, if it does come out, and it is great, then good, if not, you meet your expectancy, so you don't really lose anything.

[Rob Oplawar]

I wouldn't play a life simulation, I've got my own life to spend time on. It's the games featuring stuff you can't do in RL that I play.

I agree. Even Second Life is just too normal for it to be at all appealing to me. The ability to be rich and change my appearance and fly and not be so antisocial just isn't enough. I need aliens to fight, or something.


I think that what we really need is the virtual reality internet already. I mean shit man, what's taking so long? Give us a massive sprawling city metaphor for the internet, and let us browse it in 3D. If this City Space thing had that purpose in mind, then I'd be all over it, but as it is it's just a passing curiosity.

[Apoc4lypse]

What does anybody have to gain from hoaxes?
Attention.

Still, I think it may actually happen. I can't always be so skeptical as to dismiss everything outright. Fingers crossed.

I still just wanna watch the video, it broke or something... "invalid URL feed" or something.

[Dr Pepper]

theres no way this is fake. this looks like the next big thing for me

[Con]

I doubt all of it's pre-rendered. You can see stuff changing LOD as he moves around.

[Heathen]

Does it matter? Lets just talk about whether its bullshit or not when it does, or doesn't come out.

If it does :awesome:

If it doesn't....fuck this guy.

[SnaFuBAR]

theres no way this is fake. this looks like the next big thing for me
:fail:

[ExAm]

Look at it this way, why in the fuck would somebody go through the trouble to fake it that much?

[SnaFuBAR]

for investment money? the fuck do you think man?

E: started reading the documentation (http://www.otoy.com/site/otoy_white_paper.pdf), and this is total bullshit. apparently you can do this on your cellphone as well ahhahahaa.

[Heathen]

I did kind of think that was rediculous...but he did say that on the video.


Did you even watch the entire thing Snaf?

[Rob Oplawar]

I get the feeling that they don't actually mean realtime- that the basic version that cheap computers and maybe even cellphones can run is just a Myst style thing, where it loads a single image, and then you change stuff and interact with the world and it returns another single image, shown at anything but 30 frames per second.

Still, I'm highly skeptical of even that.

[SnaFuBAR]

I did kind of think that was rediculous...but he did say that on the video.


Did you even watch the entire thing Snaf?
Yes, but are you going to trust a company that steals a video from an online portfolio and presents it as part of the project>

[Lateksi]

At first I thought I was looking at GTA IV! It's hard for me to say if it is real or not. Sounds good but also impossible.

[Hotrod]

The one part that really made me believe that this isn't real is the part where you can access your computer through the pictures, there's just something there that doesn't seem right.

[Rob Oplawar]

^ this.

[Heathen]

Um....it could operate similar to this. (http://desktoptwo.com/)

[Heathen]

So I was just thinking about this...what happened to this?

[Delta4907]

I clicked on this topic thinking it was new. I've never heard of this, and it doesn't seem to have gotten any attention since, unless I'm a blind fool.

[klange]

The entire things seems pretty dead. Their website no longer functions.

[itszutak]

vaporware

[Warsaw]

It's not. Tom's Hardware mentioned it last month, especially the particulars about the server, which is running many ( I don't remember how many) HD4870s.