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It's cool to see things like this, I wasn't aware of. I made something similar for VR around 6 or 7 years ago with full DJ mixing on real vinyl turntables. I got things built so DJs could play their set from anywhere in the world and have access to their music from their own studio or home etc. Unfortunately i was one guy making this and health issues have sadly put this project on hold indefinitely. It would be a shame to let it die like this and would love others to carry the project further.
What would be the best way to share this, i really don't know as i made it using unity engine, all my own assets, scripts etc are made by me, no vibe coding or anything like that.
Here's a couple of videos of the project if anybody is interested in carrying this further, please let me know thanks.
https://youtu.be/qXeiqlFA7Rg?t=171
Super cool, during covid times I sorta started making a system where you could back2back dj mix with a remote friend, but never really got anywhere. Would love to pick it up again, or know if there have been some new developments in this field? There are some ‘jam together’ type projects but as I recall, these werent really suitable for DJ mixing electronic music (latency wise).
If you want other people to carry it further, release your work as free software.
Publish to github or radicle. If you're not sure how, just have an AI CLI help.
The GitHub repository is https://github.com/stagas/hallucinate - License is MIT - All contributions are welcome.
Now that I have your attention, I've made this and I've been unemployed for a very long time -due to health issues- but now I'm fine and I'm looking for a job, creative frontend development in TypeScript is my specialization. Remote preferrably - European timezones. My email is in my HN profile if anyone's got any offer it would be amazing. Tysm everyone!
This is unhinged, I love it! Just a flat hierarchy of like a hundred ts files.
It see some mixamo references. How are you playing animations? Is it optimized in any way for that many characters?
Add a README file, bro
Shout-out to the dearly departed theclub.zone, which did this with a bit more panache (as well as a punishingly difficult secret platformer puzzle).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAXY_bZvWUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9I_zfQrfzM
But imho, the truest club experience is the short game SLAVE OF GOD by Increpare:
The experience has improved a lot over the past week — also set up an authorized mirror at hallucinate.live if the main site is under load.
I think allowing jumping would add a lot. looking over the top of a whole crowd would be more visually dynamic.
Added! b for bounce!
Good idea. PR will be accepted.
I made a player motion heat map from ~5 hours of data: https://i.imgur.com/7lDuJI6.png
Aside: I’m not sure how many people realize how big DJ events are in VRChat, especially amongst furries. The virtual furry con Furality is coming up for example and the dances there are huge, thousands of simultaneous attendees. Worlds for events will have full DMX lighting control and sophisticated audio setups.
DJs will often do live mixing as well, it’s not just pressing play on pre-recorded sets, while wearing their VR gear. Recently an event was fully synchronized between an RL version and VR version, complete with integrated lighting setup (the same DMX signals were controlling both RL event space and VR world lighting simultaneously).
Every weekend there’s dozens of huge rave/DJ events going on 24 hours a day mostly be EU and US organizers, although Japan goes hard too (their virtual cons are mind-boggling huge and have major corporate sponsors).
This reminds me of the 2021 Secret Sky online music festival put on by Porter Robinson. The 2020 one was similar but the 2021 version had little human-like avatars. Some other people and me were messing around with the browser console to do things like change our accent colours or change the location text above our heads to whatever else we wanted.
https://www.webbyawards.com/crafted-with-code/secret-sky-202...
https://www.webbyawards.com/crafted-with-code/secret-sky-202...
So fun. Long-time fan of electronic music and am heading to my first DJ-centered concerts this year.
I think that scene is overrun with influencer types and various types of recreational substance use. Maybe I'm wrong.
Bookmarking for background while I do other things!
I couldn't play, the site didn't load for me :(
The progress bar was stuck on 0% for about 2 minutes afterwhich I gave up.
I am on Firefox 151.0.1 (aarch64) and if that helps at all MacOs 26.3 (25D125) if that helps at all.
I love silly stuff like this and can only hope that with AI we see more of it. Enjoyed dropping in and the beats were fire.
IJKL for movement instead WASD? An interesting approach...
Very cool to vibe out with folks anonymously. Almost like the old days where you could go to a rave and be you without fear someone would take pictures or people outside the rave would know who you are. Would love an option to cycle skin colors / tones.
I just had more fun here than doing anything online for years. Thank you.
I joined but seemingly I had to click start on the youtube video and there was no centralized sync sever. I can only assume the song in the 2hr mix that was playing for me, well, wasn’t playing for everyone else which kills the whole vibe of a rave for me. You should give the ability for clients to sync to the master playtime so it’s at least only a few seconds off! Would really increase the vibe instead of feeling gimmicky.
The first time I saw something like this was in a music-focused virtual world from the 2000s. Strangers would strike up conversations with each other, dance (in some cases to well-known artists), wander around to see what others were doing, and generally just hang out.
I think it was called vSide.
Awesome app, spent 10 mins on it and had a good time - thank you!
One question, not requesting a change, just looking for a "why" type comment; why did you make it so you can change the progress of the videos playing?
Reason I ask is, seems to be it would be more immersive/mmo-y, if everyone was experiencing the same thing as the same time.
Thanks!
I like it! but without ability to execute own dance moves, not really dancing... Tried with keyboard but it didn't work.. Now imagining infrared webcam thing and some DIY stick on reflective things.. set up your own rave cave, attach sensors, dance, your virtual self mirrors... now you're raving
Making movement on IJKL instead of WASD is kind of evil
The whole point of a rave is to take Molly and have fun connecting with others who have also taken Molly. At least for this introvert.
I was never a fan of Electronic Music, I tolerate it for the drugs and the temporary extroversion.
Fun idea! I was surprised that it loaded on mobile and UI was kinda reasonable but I could tap any buttons to move or do anything. I’ll look into sending a PR for fixing that.
That is super cool. I think that's probably the longest I've played with anything I've seen on Hacker News. That is super cool. :)
Rave chat was working fine until I wrote "I think rust is overrated" and I can no longer see my or anyone else's messages. Yes, really.
Damn :D even tho i prolly just gonne use it this single team, it kinda made my day :) very cool thing - just a collaborative experience to enjoy !
I have been raving for the past 15 minutes. Very cool idea. The chat system and can be improved - It could be nice to "force" more interactions with the other players. Atm everyone just seem to run around and switch dance moves. Maybe you could considering some basic rewarding system ?
Very very cool! I love everything except the "pan" functionality. Conceptually I want to pan the world (i.e. grab the world and spin it around my character), not pan the character's FoV. This inverts R and L and makes it the opposite of basically every 3D pan I've ever used.
Suggestions:
- make the controls work like a typical FPS (i.e. WASD controls should not rotate the player but just strafe)
- make spacebar jump, and a different key to talk, like T
- make the jump work like a platformer where you start falling as soon as you release the button. so people can make small hops to the beat
- stop dancing after a few seconds of inactivity
And it was immediately fouled by racism.
I think most of these players aren't real :( they're bots, I catch them teleporting to certain places, also as soon as I sit down in their spot they get up, and it seems real players don't they just continue sitting.
I got a little motion sick with this camera control. I won't be visiting this site again but for other people like me, please add a crosshair. They help with motion sickness by giving you something to stick your gaze on.
Feels like if Minecraft and Turntable.fm had a baby. I say that endearingly.
Where is jungle basement or something for those who like their beats broken?
what-a-way to pre-start a work day. Thanks for the contrib! :D
add a real player count
Reminds me of the minecraft based raves during the pandemic.
This is a really fun, the number of side quests you can come across at a festival is endless, I love it
Did this get hugged to death? Not loading for me at all.
The people who worked on the metaverse must be jealous
Pretty cool so far. I'm wondering if it could go in a more decentralized direction, gossip or even gnutella.