[HN Gopher] Open Sourcing Tilt Brush ___________________________________________________________________ Open Sourcing Tilt Brush Author : theBashShell Score : 86 points Date : 2021-01-26 17:09 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (opensource.googleblog.com) (TXT) w3m dump (opensource.googleblog.com) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-01-26 23:00 UTC)