LaunchVideo turns a URL or prompt into an explainer video with Opus 5.5 and a headless renderer
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LaunchVideo 的做法是：你给它一个网址或一段文字描述，Opus 5.5 直接写 HTML、CSS 和动画脚本，然后一个无头 Chromium 微虚拟机逐帧渲染成 1080p 30fps 的 MP4。整个过程没有用到视频生成模型，靠的是把页面里的时钟（requestAnimationFrame、Date、CSS 动画等）替换成虚拟时钟，保证每一...
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LaunchVideo generates a ~30-second product explainer from a URL or a text prompt. Opus 5.5 writes the HTML/CSS/animation script, and a serverless agent renders it frame by frame in a headless Chromium microVM — no video generation model is used. Each video costs roughly 100k tokens and takes about four minutes, outputting 1080p 30fps MP4 with a virtual clock for deterministic frames. The page shows five unedited examples including NVIDIA and Linear. The whole product is one TypeScript agent file plus three tools, fully open-source and one-click deployable to your own OpenComputer account. The post doesn't mention pricing or whether models other than Opus 5.5 are supported.