Hacker News: dshankar

New comment by dshankar in "The 7th Guest gets VR remake using volumetric video"

dshankar — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 15:00:41 +0000

Bigscreen Beyond developer here. This game is incredible and moody to play in VR on the OLED-based Beyond headset. Congrats to the team on shipping a fantastic game. I love what you've done with it

New comment by dshankar in "Tested reviews the Bigscreen Beyond, the smallest VR headset [video]"

dshankar — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:53:34 +0000

Norm Chan from Tested.com reviews the Bigscreen Beyond and the Pimax Crystal, with brief comparisons to headsets like the Quest Pro and Apple Vision Pro.

disclosure: I'm Darshan, YC alum (W2011) and founder/CEO of Bigscreen.

Tested reviews the Bigscreen Beyond, the smallest VR headset [video]

dshankar — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:53:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQzSb_JPH5Y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37578178

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by dshankar in "Oculus Go"

dshankar — Tue, 01 May 2018 21:12:12 +0000

Speaking of Bigscreen...it was released for mobile today :-D

Oculus Go launch title and also Samsung GearVR support

New comment by dshankar in "Oculus Go"

dshankar — Tue, 01 May 2018 20:55:26 +0000

Bigscreen does this and is a launch title for the Oculus Go. It's available today.

https://blog.bigscreenvr.com/bigscreen-is-launching-today-on...

Stream your Windows PC --> mobile VR headset using the "Bigscreen Remote Desktop" feature

New comment by dshankar in "HTC’s Vive Pro will add more pixels to an otherwise familiar-looking VR system"

dshankar — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 22:57:46 +0000

> "almost no current laptops have the GPU performance for the recommended spec, though upcoming mobile GPUs may be able to support this level of performance."

This WAS true in 2015 but is NOT TRUE today. All the Nvidia Pascal-generation desktop GPUs (2016) run extremely well on laptops. Since 2016, there is no more "mobile class" Nvidia GPU designation.

The "VR Ready" laptops are popular, and they have a 1050, 1060, 1070, and even an Nvidia 1080 GPU. These are very powerful gaming laptops, and some are still in slim form factors like the Razor Blade, and relatively affordable for a laptop ($1400-2000)

Virtual reality startup Bigscreen raises $11M Series A

dshankar — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:45:45 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.bigscreenvr.com/bigscreen-raises-11-million-in-series-a-financing-led-by-true-ventures-a2d49da40e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15444293

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dshankar in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)"

dshankar — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 21:28:12 +0000

Salary & equity depends on experience, location, and the role.

We expect to be hiring much more senior management roles in the next 6-12 months as well, an engineering manager and a product manager.

Therefore, it's a very wide range from $50k to $150k in salary, and 0.1% to 2% in equity.

Fullstack: https://jobs.lever.co/bigscreenvr/284548b4-7876-4bb2-97fc-36...

Front-end: https://jobs.lever.co/bigscreenvr/2a268771-b32e-42b0-bc6d-98...

Back-end: https://jobs.lever.co/bigscreenvr/ade2408f-20ee-42d7-bfd8-3f...

New comment by dshankar in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)"

dshankar — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 19:52:45 +0000

Remote | Full Time

Bigscreen is a VR/AR company building an immersive, social computing platform. Think "VR Operating System"

We have over 250,000 users on the Rift & Vive. Our power users spend 20-30 hours each week using the product, and tens of thousands of people use Bigscreen every single weekend, making Bigscreen a "killer app" of VR.

We're a tiny team (3 developers) building one of the most successful VR startups with product-market fit and $3 million in funding from top VCs like Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, I was the founder of a Y Combinator startup (YC W11), and before that I studied EECS at UC Berkeley.

We're hiring experienced senior engineers, designers, and artists that enjoy working remotely. Most roles do not require any prior VR experience.

Our VR app is built in C++ and C# (Unity3D), our backend infra is WebRTC & Node.js, and our VR UI front-end is actually HTML/CSS/Javascript.

  - Frontend developer (HTML/CSS/Javascript)
  - Fullstack developer (Javascript)
  - Backend developer (Node.js, Firebase)
  - Interaction / UI designer
  - Unity3D developer

http://bigscreenvr.com/jobs/

darshan@bigscreenvr.com

New comment by dshankar in "VR social productivity app Bigscreen raises $3M with Andreessen Horowitz"

dshankar — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 03:22:26 +0000

Bigscreen lets you view any content in VR that you can currently view on your computer, not just web content.

You can see your entire desktop on floating virtual screens, which enables you to use your any desktop app (including but not limited to your web browser).

New comment by dshankar in "VR social productivity app Bigscreen raises $3M with Andreessen Horowitz"

dshankar — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 03:20:16 +0000

You are absolutely correct. I think there's a massive opportunity for "3D programs" (Blender, Maya, AutoCAD, etc.) to become native VR applications.

Bigscreen is instead about the other 99% content that's completely 2D. I wrote a blog post[1] about our founding mission and one example in there is Microsoft Word. Even in VR/AR, the words won't be flying around you in 3D space. Movies and videogames won't disappear and be replaced by 360 and VR games anytime soon.

The question that Bigscreen is tackling is instead: how can VR/AR improve our 2D computing experience?

[1]: https://blog.bigscreenvr.com/3-million-financing-round-led-b...

New comment by dshankar in "VR social productivity app Bigscreen raises $3M with Andreessen Horowitz"

dshankar — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 03:17:26 +0000

I'd love to learn more about how you're using Bigscreen (and how we can make it better for you). Could you email me? darshan@bigscreenvr.com

New comment by dshankar in "VR social productivity app Bigscreen raises $3M with Andreessen Horowitz"

dshankar — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 03:16:25 +0000

Bigscreen founder here. Thanks for the kind words! If you have any bugs or feature requests, please let me know! darshan@bigscreenvr.com

Virtual reality startup Bigscreen raises $3M led by Andreessen Horowitz

dshankar — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 20:17:25 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.bigscreenvr.com/3-million-financing-round-led-by-andreessen-horowitz-1a535c8c36a8#.j3cnoxe1p

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13727469

Points: 2

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What pro computing could be

dshankar — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 06:11:57 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@al3x/what-pro-computing-could-be-73ba8735e18a#.sqdj3ro88

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12843770

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Investor Day

dshankar — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 18:25:23 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.ycombinator.com/investor-day

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12051177

Points: 257

# Comments: 88

New comment by dshankar in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"

dshankar — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 19:51:51 +0000

The original "Show HN" turned out OK https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

(that was nearly 10 years ago!)

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dshankar — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 06:41:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6LMrXzBBbQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11558821

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by dshankar in "An engineer replaced four monitors with Meta glasses"

dshankar — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:58:29 +0000

There is no such thing as a `foveated display`

There is foveated rendering: a rendering optimization technique where you render at higher resolutions where the eye is looking at due to higher visual acuity in a small ~5-degree circle thanks to a large concentration of cones in the fovea of the eye.

This has nothing to do with the actual pixel density of HMDs. Physical pixel density remains an issue, and foveated rendering does not solve that.

edit: Perhaps I misunderstood, are you talking about retinal laser projected displays and concentrating the beam on the fovea?

Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration

dshankar — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 08:36:44 +0000

Article URL: http://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11063963

Points: 441

# Comments: 177