Sam Mateosian's profile on Product Hunt

Sam Mateosian

Co-founder, Yarn Corporation

#530878@semateosdriftspace.com

Activity 2 Made 1 Hunted 449 Following 65 Followers

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Joined on April 24th, 2016

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Messaging, APIs, Developer Tools

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Hey Product Hunt! I'm Sam, a co-founder of Yarn Corporation, the team building Driftspace. We’ve been working on Driftspace for the last several years, and today we’re excited to share it on Product Hunt! Here’s the premise: The Problem: The ability to create VR content is out of reach for most individuals and organizations. Companies and brands seeking to take advantage of these trends often turn to video production studios and digital marketing agencies. The software that these studios use today is complex and requires specialized skills, which in turn makes it time-consuming and expensive to produce VR experiences. The resulting expense often outweighs the benefits. Furthermore—and perhaps most limiting—existing solutions fail to prioritize user experience. They don’t enable creator collaboration. And, they don’t easily enable remote social experiences. The Solution: Driftspace is a new media platform truly native to spatial computing—a combination of Squarespace and Instagram for VR—a creation tool and a publishing platform for VR experiences. Initially targeted at professional VR video studios, our intuitive interface empowers “creatives” like art directors and video editors to publish interactive VR content without having to write code. We provide high-quality user experience and design elements, and then our creators add their own content to build and share immersive VR stories about people, places, moments, products, and brands. We call these immersive stories “drifts.” Like an Instagram “story,” a drift combines video with 3D-rendered content, floating text, images, and effects. Drifts can be linked together like pages on the web. You can experience these stories from the inside and travel (or drift) between them, visiting interesting places and times both captured and created. We make it easy to create immersive experiences and provide a simple way to publish them. Cheers, Sam

on Driftspace

1mo ago

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Very cool, congratulations on the release! I've been following the SSB project for a while now and this strikes me as a major milestone. I see the project is in React Native - which is what my team primarily uses for mobile dev - so... shouldn't be *crazy* hard to ship this for iOS right?? ;) Are there any major blockers to running an SSB client on iOS?

on Manyverse

2yr ago

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Agree re: the forcing to Snapchat issue. I own a v1 pair. That was *the* blocker for me - it made the introductory adoption curve too steep. They *could* take more of an "embrace the ecosystem" approach, recognizing the existence of their peers and making their tools compatible. They could then more gradually draw people to using their app. If I start out using Spectacles daily with Instagram and loving the device, then I'd then be a lot more interested in using their other tools. No - import to Snap, export to camera roll, import to Instagram does not count - too much work.

on Spectacles v2

3yr ago

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