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Overte
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Overte, an Open Source social VR platform, has received an NLnet grant
Overte is an Open Source desktop/VR platform similar to VR Chat or Resonite.
Unlike most other similar platforms, we follow a very distributed model. We don't have a walled garden users must log into, instead the architecture is reminiscent of a 3D webserver -- anyone can deploy the server anywhere in a few minutes, and connect to it.
We don't monetize anything, collect data, or deal with cryptocurrency or NFTs.
The grant will be used to modernize the rendering engine, build system, audio system, and make some other improvements:
https://overte.org/#we-ve-obtained-an-nlnet-grant
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A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D
That looks amazing!
If you'd ever like to see it in VR, we run an open source desktop/VR social platform at https://overte.org/
It shouldn't be too hard to set up a server and take a walk among the past.
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Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned
Sure.
High Fidelity, sort of. Failed commercial project to develop a sort of VR world from the same guy that made Second Life. Their advertising honestly cheesed me off and seemed to reek of desperation. Their adoption of cryptocurrency didn't help either. What did was that despite that they had promising technology people I knew talked about, so I did check it out despite all my initial misgivings, and it was good enough for me to stick around there for a good while. When they gave up, I was part of the group of people that tried to keep things going, which eventually became a non-profit I'm now a member of, https://overte.org/
Resonite. The new version of NeosVR, still in development. Happened after an ideological split. I heard of NeosVR mostly from Reddit discussion and friends who love the system.
Linux Weekly News. Only news site I pay for, they post interesting highly technical information. Pretty sure I heard them mentioned in Linux discussion spaces.
Linode -- Same deal, Linux users that use their services. Now it's much bigger, I signed up back in the early days, back when they used User-mode Linux, and had no SSDs.
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Exa Is Deprecated
Oh, I mean we started a non-profit to support our particular project (https://overte.org/), not that we've got a general purpose organization providing service to whoever needs it.
So I'm not sure we're we're a good fit, in that we're neither something comparable to Code Shelter, nor unmaintained.
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Flatpak Is Not the Future
I think it's an unfortunate necessity for some kinds of applications.
Eg, we make this: https://overte.org/
We're currently using AppImage because that was the first thing that worked for us, but most of the reasons are the same either way: We want to spend time developing the software, and that means it's hard to justify packaging every release for a dozen distributions. And I'd say nobody particularly wants to do it.
We also expect our users to keep reasonably up to date, not whenever it's convenient to the distribution. Code changes can change the networking protocol, and some of those can require everyone to upgrade.
So at least to me it makes perfect sense to package some kinds of applications this way. Maybe not KDE's calculator, but definitely things like games and tools with specialized markets, where it may be difficult to find people wanting to do the work of packaging them for a distribution.
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The Quite OK Audio Format for Fast, Lossy Compression
It's probably something we (https://overte.org/) can use.
We have a 3D environment with spatial audio. Audio is encoded server-side, and since it's spatial everyone needs their own mix. We're using Opus, and audio encoding turns out to be the usual limiting factor on small servers.
So this kind of thing is exactly up our alley: an alternate option that uses less CPU than Opus, but consumes less bandwidth than raw audio.
But adding supporting for FLAC is also on our list. It seems nicely performant when compared to Opus.
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The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse | Folding Ideas
Philip Rosedale (the Second Life guy) after a while left the company and started something called High Fidelity. That was something like SL 2.0 design-wise and was built with VR support from the start. This also died eventually and got picked up by volunteers, which is what I do now :)
- Overte - Open-source virtual world and social VR software
- Overte – open-source virtual world and social VR software
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How do you personally take advantage of Linux’s open source nature
More practically, I currently work on a former commercial project that was luckily open source. Thanks to that, we can keep it going!
AppImageLauncher
- New to fedora, any advices?
- Flatpak Is Not the Future
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What is the proper way to install?
Every file that you want to execute has to be in your environment PATH. I would also advise to put symlinks and personal executables in ~/.local/bin and put that to your path. Since your user has ownership over that directory, you won't have any probs with permissions that may or may not occur at all. Since we're talking about AppImage files, you might also want to take a look at AppImageLauncher which does a pretty good job at creating entries for your Desktop Menu for the AppImage files that you install to your system.
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What’s the best way to install App Man, direct or via distrobox?
I think it's safe to install it directly as it stores everything in a single directory. For AppImages there is also AppImagePool + AppImageLauncher (can be installed rootless, useful for better integration of appimages).
- Newer Linux Administrator, have a question regarding Debian builds like Ubuntu and installer.appimage files.
- AppImage won't ask anymore to Integrate after Running only once
- AppImageLauncher no longer working on Fedora 38
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Working on an app to "install" and manage AppImages
This reminds me of a prettier version of AppImageLauncher. Is there also an "Uninstall" option in the right-click menu of the app launcher?
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Can I trust Flatpak apps if they are not managed by the app developer?
I'm using AppImageLauncher on Fedora.
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Standard Notes users - how are you creating shortcut to SN inDock?
"... I recall that this was related to an issue with most Electron apps, wherein the AppImage cannot be integrated with the desktop or the favourites bar. So far we've found that the AppImageLauncher (https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher) helps with getting around this!
What are some alternatives?
vircadia-native-core - Vircadia open source agent-based metaverse ecosystem.
appimaged - appimaged is a daemon that monitors the system and integrates AppImages.
eza - A modern, maintained replacement for ls
void-packages - The Void source packages collection
waybox - An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP)
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Array - A virtual to physical world value system and vice versa
go-appimage - Go implementation of AppImage tools
REFramework - Scripting platform, modding framework and VR support for all RE Engine games
bauh - Graphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Debian and Arch packages (including AUR), Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications
specification - The specification for TinyVG. This is the central authority for the file system
AppImageUpdate - AppImageUpdate lets you update AppImages in a decentral way using information embedded in the AppImage itself.