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What swapd0 said! :D

Yeah well, what I meant is that this time they have real-world models instead of a world built of lego bricks and repetitive palm trees. It appears to be running properly in real time as well. Maybe the scenes are cherry picked and so on, but it still looks nice.I was wondering about the bandwith requirement as well. There has to be a catch.

But yeah, the video was pretty bad in other regards. The narrator is very talented at being annoying and in hyperbole.

still no demo? D:

NEXT...

The narrator / CEO / whoeverthehell has always been this condecending and annoying, so that's nothing new. Even in this video, where he basically just ignores most of their previous claims (which were more or less shot dead by Notch, John Carmack and a slew of others) and still manages to try to sound like they have the best thing since sliced bread.

Even though what they REALLY did was to take their original and wildly unconvincing and unproven claim and reduce into the one niche use-case everyone said it was only good for to begin with -- and spin that as a positive.

Whoopdie-fucking-doo. Stick your tech and attitude up a cangaroo's bottom, aussie frauds.

I think their new logo makes them look a little more credible (compared to that old one with the seahorses or whatever it was), but that Bruce Dell guy just sounds so much like a scammer. As for the technology, the way they keep calling it a search algorithm makes it sound like a giant hashmap of the form (ray origin, ray direction) -> colour.

Not as discreet a change from game graphics to just point cloud visualisation as it could be, though their algorithm did seem to have big problems with animation so it's pretty logical.

Still waiting on that exe.

They did mention in the latest video that it's very fast to covert other kinds of data to the format their engine needs - it can deal with gigabytes in 3 hours, or something like that. A few meg of animated object should be manageable at upwards of a frame a minute :D

I got the impression that they provide a service to convert a client's data - meaning they perform the conversion on their own high-end multi-node hardware. I think this is the catch with their method, you need a lot of powerful hardware and a lot of time to convert from point-cloud to their optimised format.

I think the change in focus from gaming to GIS is a smart move for them. Being able to zoom in on the arse of an ant glued to the bark of RegularInstancedTree#9847356 isn't that useful for games.

boring

I had to turn off the audio, that guys voice was getting to me.

Anyone noticed that it took ~1sec to render a new location.

So Looking at the video without audio I don't get what special.

now that looks like they have a working product finally - convinced me, despite of the horrible marketing bla bla

t21: the special thing seems to be that the competitetors products in the geo spacial industry seem to suck.

btw. he does not seem to have the slightest technical background - i imagine him as the pointy-haired boss from dilbert. ;)

Still no animation of course, but looks like a good use to what they claimed before. But yeah where's my exe? :)

exe or it didn't happen!

Boyc: will the exe be a TERABYTE of download?

God. Of course they do have something. You people don't seem to be aware of how startups work. Jeez! Ask me if you want to know anything.

Yeah... the claims are probably, MAYBE a little exaggerated. But that's how it works. Besides, you don't know that for sure.

Try to make a company first before you judge.

Enlighten me. How many years does a company have to exist before they are no longer labelled a "startup."

didn't they have sponsors or atleast some lil development funding since the first video. this' no startup. not anymore. ever was? it's actually an established company in a marketing phase. they have a very own technique and product. they just need good uses, try now and sell it to anybody who might need and use the product. this' what i see.

I'm a startup co-founder and I have no idea. :D

Wikipedia: "A startup company or startup is a company, a partnership or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model"

So I suppose a company is a startup until it has its first customers or goes under.

You call your company a startup until you book a profit.