Noiseblend Reviews

IMVU Reviews

1. Jesse Li Starseed

   | Owner at Starseed Productions | about 2 years ago
   Immersiveness and Realism is not always based on the Platform

   In most virtual worlds, whether on a 2D screen or 3D headset, the platform provides the means, but most of the userbase provides the "content". I am no stranger to 3D virtual. I was on the very first one called Cybertown back in 1999, and have accounts in Second Life and Sansar. To be honest, I had tried IMVU over a decade ago, but it seemed marketed to teens and the younger generation. But it is now 2022, and IMVU has made great strides in graphic quality, creator tools (IMVU Studio), and even V-COIN, the first cryptocurrency approved by the SEC for use in virtual worlds and convertable to real life currency. The bottom line though is the quality of the content, but especially that of the IMVU "avatars", which I have to say "still" greatly surpass most of the avatar looks available in standard 3D VR headset platforms. The content available for objects, rooms, and outfits, poses, movements, audio and even shadow/shade rendering is leaps and bounds better than it was many years ago, and much more is available in the IMVU Store for purchase. IMVU is now a subsidiary company of "Together Labs", has procured 35 million dollars in venture funding, and was ranked a few years ago as the Best Virtual World Game for Realistic Graphics for 2020 by Lifewire, a prominent tech site. I choose to use IMVU as a platform because it is a very good quality one, both technically and socially, and have developed ways of marketing and streaming music and video to and from online broadcasting sites in conjunction with this platform.

   🏁 Competitors: Second Life, Sansar, VRChat, Anakin

   👍 Pros:    Quality of content|Ease of use|Large selection of content|Two client platforms available for computer|Phone app|Cryptocurrency|Creator tools|Custom content can be made by users who are creators|Age verification required for adult content (ap)|: free, or paid-subscription vip tier levels|Greeters program|Live chatrooms can have thousands in the room|Furniture (tvs & screens) in live chatrooms can stream audio/video content directly from youtube

   👎 Cons:    Not a true 3d vr world, like vrchat|Not available for 3d vr headset|Limit of 10 avatars in a chatroom, although more can be invited or pulled in

Noiseblend mentions (4)

• I created a macOS spotlight-like app that allows you to control your Spotify music from anywhere

  I also worked for 8 months on a music discovery webapp called Noiseblend that uses Spotify. We were never accepted for their commercial program and were not allowed to ask for money on the website. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Alternative ways to make money with coding and system skills?

  My most ambitious web project was https://noiseblend.com which is a web app for discovering music on Spotify. It’s a next.js + React slow and memory hungry mess [1] which could have been static HTML with some JS for the dynamic bits. Experience taught me to keep it simple nowadays, but I had to go through the Noiseblend mistakes first. The stack is Python with Sanic for the backend, Postgres for db and Redis for... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Songdata

  I’m serving everything from the Spotify API directly on Noiseblend (https://noiseblend.com) and rate limit has never been a problem. When a request fails because of a rate limit, Spotify responds with 429 and a Retry-After header so you know when to schedule the next request. In my tests, that header never had a value greater than 10 seconds, and 429 responses were very rare. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Songdata

  I've been using this site ever since I discovered it! I'm glad to see it featured on HN. I started learning to play the Romanian Kaval [1] last summer and Songdata helped me enormously in finding good backing tracks to improvise on. I'm mostly improvising on chillhop tracks right now because I'm trying to develop less traditional rhythms (although I'm still clumsy with the breathing and knowing when to keep the... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

IMVU mentions (1)

• Alternatives to Everskies

  Games I don't know enough about that can be played in a browser that DON'T have forums or forum-like features: MovieStarPlanet2 (made by the same company as MSP1, so expect it to be just as pay to win and unsafe as the first game) Games I don't know enough about that don't have forums (as far as I'm aware) that you have to download: Habbo Hotel IMVU Hotel Hideaway The Sims 4 (it's free and lets you dress up... Source: about 1 year ago