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High Fidelity Blog
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High Fidelity Blog is the company blog at blog.highfidelity.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Avatar Island: Our First Steps to a Distributed Digital Economy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on VR and virtual worlds, including audio latency for live music, Avatar Island, and blockchain-based DRM for virtual-world assets. The comments mostly link to posts without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
High Fidelity offers patented Live Spatial Audio solutions, including virtual spaces to gather online and APIs for developers. Learn more by reading our blog.
Most-linked posts?
- Avatar Island: Our First Steps to a Distributed Digital Economy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-05
What Hacker News says?
> Anything over 2ms is not acceptable for live music. That's the difference between a band sounding "in-time" to "needs practice" Obviously you want your in-ear sound to be as exact as possible, but a 2 ms difference will not make a band sound bad. I remember hearing 9 ms was the threshold for live music, but I can't find any references. If it truly is lower I would love to read some source material. There are very…
Comment linking /blog/2013/05/how-much-latency-can-live-musicians-tolerate
on “The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM”Submitted VNC in VR: Synchronized Virtual Desktops as a story · 54 points
HN discussionLike this one? https://blog.highfidelity.com/avatar-island-our-first-steps-...
Comment linking /avatar-island-our-first-steps-to-a-distributed-digital-economy-d319b43b933c
on “CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum”Submitted New Record: 256 Avatars Together as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNow here's a "blockchain" example which could have been useful, but it's just another "coin" and a lot of hype.[1] The idea is to have a DRM system for assets in virtual worlds, which might be useful if VR ever gets anywhere. When I heard about this, I thought, "they're going to use this to make assets portable". A game/VR/virtual world asset is basically a file, which has to be decrypted to be useful. It has a crea…
Comment linking /tagged/blockchain
on “Design Thinking for Blockchains”Submitted Paying Avatars on the Blockchain as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avatar Island: Our First Steps to a Distributed Digital Economy as a story · 1 points
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