One of our development dreams is that instead of installing asset packs when creating stuff, you can select from a library of uploaded assets. Not so much an asset store, but more like a huge unlimited filesystem of stuff that other people have uploaded.
That came a bit closer this month as we enabled accessing models from asset.party. You can browse cloud models in the asset browser like everything else. You can even open them in modeldoc to take a look.
So check that video out. What's happening there is I'm purposely opening models that I haven't previously downloaded so you can get an idea of how it doesn't really matter that they're on the internet.
So when I double click on them it's downloading the actual model and then opening it in modeldoc. How awesome is that shit?
There is a LOT we need to do here to make it truly work. Discoverability, ordering, sorting, categorization, ratings, moderation. These are probably going to be the hardest things to get right with this system, but we'll work through all that shit.