Jitsi + Svelte
We’re happy to announce a new open source (MIT licensed) library called jitsi-svelte, available on npm and github. I’ve been using lib-jitsi-meet for a few months now and have a little bit of an understanding of its API. A little …
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Kinder, Gentler Community
Our online spaces need to be more welcoming—they need to have more hospitality, more civilization, and more heaping helpings of kindness. You might be skeptical that there’s hope—after all, the social networks are most often a crap shoot: opening Twitter, …
How is Relm better than Zoom?
In some ways Relm is like Zoom (video chat!), but at the same time, a lot of people notice it also looks like… a video game world!? So, what’s up with that, and is it better than Zoom? Video game …
The Online Social Universe Manifesto
Version 1.0 Human beings are fundamentally social creatures. But the world wide web was not designed to meet our social needs. When we look around at the networks we’ve created online, we see a travesty of real connection with each …
I don’t wear hats (well)
But I’m about to wear several, for now! I’m thrilled to announce that I (Duane) am starting full-time this week at Relm.US Inc. as CTO and acting CEO. When my brother, Chris, and I started this video game-like virtual world …
Relm Updates – July 9
Most of the development work has been focused on a server update that will be coming soon, but there have also been some helpful updates and improvements that have landed on the browser side: NEW: Preliminary support for packed-glb and …
Screensharing!
An oft-requested feature is now here: screensharing! If you click on someone’s screen, you’ll get a full screen version of their screen. For now, the only way to initiate a screen share is via the command /share. Sending the /share …
New Features – June 22
Relm had a big refactor last month and as a result, there are quite a few new features: Foldable images: creates an improved illusion that a 2D image is 3D by putting a “crease” down the center. Ground: we now …
Fueling a Passionate Culture in the Remote Office
We were fascinated to read Chip Cutter’s article in the Wall Street Journal, “Office Culture: The Office is Far Away. Can Its Culture Survive?” He notes that managers “are fretting about how they can instill culture and encourage innovation when …
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Relm Tech Stack
We’re really excited to be using some very new technologies in the browser to make a 3D collaborative world like Relm possible. All of the software we use has one aim: to make it more natural and pleasant to work …