[HN Gopher] Show HN: Collaborative event registration with WebGL...
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       Show HN: Collaborative event registration with WebGL and WebSockets
        
       Author : nutlope
       Score  : 76 points
       Date   : 2022-09-02 16:21 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | elitan wrote:
       | Amazing design, as always!
        
       | swyx wrote:
       | whoa... congrats aboodman and nutlope, this is super cool and the
       | prism flash is suuuuper fancy holy crap
        
       | metadat wrote:
       | I'm confused, what is this? I don't want to hook it up to my
       | GitHub just to see...
        
         | plusECON wrote:
         | You can see the flow without hooking up GitHub here:
         | https://twitter.com/steventey/status/1565739260312952833
        
         | nutlope wrote:
         | It's a conference registration site that involves a series of
         | challenges involving a wordle and a multiplayer experience with
         | a prism built with Three.js
        
       | stevenfabre wrote:
       | Really impressive experience! Great work Next.js!
       | 
       | Love the work 0xcaOa did with Three.js to create this multiplayer
       | light effect. Glad to see https://liveblocks.io was able to help
       | them prototype this out to get a feel for that experience.
       | 
       | And... it's great to see the web become a place where people can
       | hang out and feel like they're together in the same space!
        
       | jridgewell wrote:
       | See a video preview at https://youtu.be/iQvviFlz7G0
       | 
       | Edit: @steventey has an excellent video at
       | https://twitter.com/steventey/status/1565739260312952833
        
       | steventey wrote:
       | the engineering that went into this site is insane - given also
       | how performant it is in production globally
        
         | cal85 wrote:
         | All I'm seeing is a very simple website for registering to
         | attend a conference. What am I missing?
        
           | Operyl wrote:
           | There's a game the further into registration you get
           | basically.
        
             | elmo_on_fire1 wrote:
             | Here's what you will see in multiplayer
             | 
             | https://twitter.com/steventey/status/1565739260312952833?s=
             | 2...
        
       | jokethrowaway wrote:
       | I wonder if this is going to become the new normal for websites
        
       | hughes wrote:
       | Whatever this is it brings my 2019 MacBook Pro down to 1fps in
       | Firefox.
        
         | mlsarecmg wrote:
         | sounds like gpu accel is off. or extensions messing with the
         | browser? mbp going to 1fps over a bit of webgl must have a
         | cause.
        
       | aboodman wrote:
       | Hi all, if you login with Github on desktop, you'll see a
       | multiplayer experience built with https://replicache.dev and
       | webgl.
       | 
       | I can't answer questions about the (absurdly epic) webgl stuff.
       | That's https://twitter.com/0xca0a.
       | 
       | But happy to answer questions about the multiplayer.
       | 
       | As an overview, this uses an upcoming version of Replicache that
       | has been upgraded to support high rate collaborative experiences.
       | The current client-side only version of Replicache can manage
       | about 4-5 updates / second, depending on your server setup, or
       | maybe 10 if you spend a lot of time tuning it.
       | 
       | In this upcoming version, we are offering our own server for
       | Replicache, based on Cloudflare's durable object technology. We
       | are getting about 40 updates per second now, but our goal is
       | 60fps.
       | 
       | We have been really happy building on Cloudflare, and think
       | durable objects in particular are a super unique and valuable
       | tool. Not useful for every situation, but there's nothing else
       | really like it on the market and when you need it you really need
       | it.
        
         | aboodman wrote:
         | And if you're curious, here's a video of the multiplayer "game"
         | in action:
         | 
         | https://twitter.com/aboodman/status/1565817772772564992
        
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