The Creation Engine No. 2
Replicated Redux: The Movie
Tue 22 May 2018 by Jim PurbrickThe recording of my recent React Europe talk about Replicated Redux is now online and I’ve written several other posts describing designing, testing and generalising the library if you would like to know more about the details. If you’d like to play the web version of pairs or see the rest of the code, it’s available on github here.
People often describe multi-user networked VR experiences as laggy, but code to hide latency by optimisticly predicting the effects of local actions is hard to write, difficult to test and often application specific. It feels great to have helped make this problem a little easier to solve for React developers by building Replicated Redux.
Replaying Replicated Redux
While property based tests proved to be a powerful tool for finding
and fixing problems with ReactVR
pairs,
the limitations of the simplistic clientPredictionConstistenty
mechanism remained.
It’s easy to think of applications where one order of a sequence of actions is valid, but another order is invalid. Imagine an …
read moreTesting Replicated Redux
Opening a couple of browser windows and clicking around was more than sufficient for testing the initial version of ReactVR pairs. Implementing a simple middleware to log actions took advantage of the Redux approach of reifying events to allow a glance at the console to reveal precisely which sequence of …
read moreReactVR Redux Revisited
There were a couple of aspects of my previous experiments building networked ReactVR experiences with Redux that were unsatisfactory: there wasn’t a clean separation between the application logic and network code and, while the example exploited idempotency to reduce latency for some actions, actions which could generate conflicts used …
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Mike and I have been talking about how to easily build simple networked social applications with ReactVR for a while, so I spent some time hacking over the Christmas break to see if I could build a ReactVR version of the pairs game in Oculus Rooms. Pairs is simple and …
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At the 3rd Party Dev State of the Union at EVE Fanfest 2016 earlier this year, CCP FoxFour drew my attention to a limitation of the current approach used by crestmatic to generate CREST documentation: it only discovers resources always reachable from the API root from the perspective of the …
read moreSuper Hyperpolyglot
A few years ago nearly all the code I wrote was in C++, but increasingly I’m finding myself writing in a variety of mostly C-style languages and having to perform crunching mental gear changes as I switch between them.
In the interests of making these language switches less painful …
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There was a slide in the early talks that Cory Ondrejka used to give about Second Life about alien abductions in Second Life. One of the most exciting moments in Second Life for the early Lindens was when a resident constructed a UFO and flew around the world abducting other …
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