Looks heavily influenced by Unity. Kinda random that Amazon is building a web based Unity competitor. Doubly weird when you consider that this is their second game engine project. They are already building one called Amazon Lumberyard, forked from the serious AAA game engine CryEngine [1], and it appears at first glance to be entirely separate from this one.<p>Is Amazon really getting value out of all the dev time they are putting into building game engines? I'm not aware of any games built in Lumberyard at all, though I haven't been paying much attention.<p>[1] <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/</a>
This is clearly based on Goo Create, which went bankrupt a few years ago: <a href="https://goocreate.com" rel="nofollow">https://goocreate.com</a> I never figured out how bought the assets as it was never announced.<p>Take this screenshot of AWS Sumerian:
<a href="https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2017/Sumerian-07-MannequinAsset.png" rel="nofollow">https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2017/Sumerian-07-Ma...</a><p>And this screenshot of Goo Create:
<a href="https://learn.goocreate.com/manual/editor/create-ui.png" rel="nofollow">https://learn.goocreate.com/manual/editor/create-ui.png</a><p>They are the same.<p>Here is a side-by-side image of the two: <a href="https://twitter.com/BenAtExocortex/status/935158702180417536" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/BenAtExocortex/status/935158702180417536</a>
All that nerd culture love stuff in the beginning bugged me enough that I didnt want to read the rest of the article. For some of us this is a career and we dont really play into to the whole nerd is beautiful movement.
The GUI is reminiscent of that of goocreate: <a href="https://app.goocreate.com" rel="nofollow">https://app.goocreate.com</a> <a href="https://learn.goocreate.com" rel="nofollow">https://learn.goocreate.com</a>
omg took me some time to find the actual product page: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sumerian/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/sumerian/</a>
This is product launch? Where is the product page? API docs?
How does Sumerian relate to Lumberyard, the other Amazon 3D engine?<p>They demonstrate basic placing of 3D objects in environment, what about UI?
I have a different perspective on all this. Alibaba, recently did something with VR[1][2] Shopping and had good success with it (in China). I think, Amazon might simply be trying to experiment with it to see if it works outside of China. And for this, of course, they need a platform to build on, just like they did with AWS.<p>I'm also quite curious to know how all this turns out. If we'll be seeing "Total Recall" style ads around us, thanks to Amazon, Google and Facebook, then in which case, we're screwed.<p>[1] <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/11/28/alibaba-vr-shopping-stevens-pkg.cnn" rel="nofollow">http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/11/28/alibaba-vr-sh...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/07/18/alibaba-merges-online-and-offline-shopping-experience-with-three-new-physical-stores" rel="nofollow">http://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/07/18/alibaba-merges-online...</a>
A bit at a tangent, but I was recently looking for software (open source or commercial) that could help me develop a 'interior design / planning' editor. I.e.: given a specific area (outside dimensions), allow to drag walls, doors, etc to create a floorplan, and given that, allow more detailed planning like kitchen, bathroom appliances, etc. Ideally, this would result in a 3d-model which could be imported in a tool like Amazon Sumerian to do a 3d-walkthrough. Any advice on where to look?
Recently they have added ARView made with ARKit on iOS. I think moving forward they think the future in AR, VR and provide their vendors and other developer to build on this platform.<p>This is really forward thinking approach and it is kind of same they had done with AWS in 2000.
Back in the day, I really loved Poser on the Mac. Is there a good web-based or free linux alternative these days? Something you can use to create realistic humans?