[HN Gopher] Open Sourcing Tilt Brush
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       Open Sourcing Tilt Brush
        
       Author : theBashShell
       Score  : 86 points
       Date   : 2021-01-26 17:09 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | scohesc wrote:
       | Nice! I was going to spend the 20 bucks on this on Steam a couple
       | weeks ago. I'll wait for an open source binary to be created and
       | run it that way then!
        
       | ocdtrekkie wrote:
       | It's nice at least a few dead Google products get open sourced
       | instead of deleted outright. I have to imagine this is only
       | possible because it's pretty much entirely a client-side desktop
       | application that doesn't rely on Google servers for much.
       | 
       | Exactly why building apps for the cloud is a big downside.
        
         | nexthash wrote:
         | On the other hand, cloud software is often more convenient to
         | use, allows for syncing on multiple devices, and is more
         | powerful due to having access to the computing resources of
         | large data centers. So you can't really say that building cloud
         | apps is only a downside. Tilt brush just happens to be the type
         | of application that doesn't overlap much with these benefits,
         | making it easier to open source. Also, cloud software isn't
         | much more difficult to open-source, see self-hosted open source
         | applications like NextCloud: https://nextcloud.com/
        
         | a_e_k wrote:
         | > that doesn't rely on Google servers for much.
         | 
         | My understanding is that it used to interact with Google Poly.
         | But a couple of months ago it was announced that that is
         | shutting down. (See
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25277615 for the HN
         | discussion about that.)
        
       | jimmySixDOF wrote:
       | There is a good discussion of this also with ama from one of the
       | developers live on Reddit :
       | 
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/vive/comments/l5idbu
        
       | aceazzameen wrote:
       | I just want multiplayer Tilt Brush so more than one person can
       | paint the same scene at the same time.
        
         | iseanstevens wrote:
         | Gravity sketch does this in their paid plans
        
         | Diederich wrote:
         | Amen! I wonder if such a thing might happen now that it's open
         | sourced?
        
       | sjcoles wrote:
       | Killing*
        
       | pontifier wrote:
       | This is awesome. I had so much fun with tilt brush, but felt that
       | there were just a few things I'd change. Maybe I will now after I
       | get done with all the other things I'm doing...
       | 
       | I might actually be able to use it (with these modifications) to
       | help me with some of my other projects :)
        
       | Mindwipe wrote:
       | Open sourcing it is good, but without a formal successor it looks
       | like the community will need to settle on a given fork for future
       | development.
        
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