[HN Gopher] Spatial Pixel: a new kind of social computing
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Spatial Pixel: a new kind of social computing
Author : surprisetalk
Score : 66 points
Date : 2024-11-20 14:05 UTC (8 days ago)
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| EarlKing wrote:
| Is this a spinoff of DynamicLand?
| taneq wrote:
| I was thinking the Augmented Reality Sandbox
| (https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/SARndbox/) but
| yeah, that too!
| seltzered_ wrote:
| Not sure, there's also been projects like https://folk.computer
| which iirc was done by someone who was had a bit of involvement
| with Dynamicland
| taneq wrote:
| Uh, "can you now make a noise" and "can you not make a noise" are
| very different instructions. Also noting that the plonky
| xylophone music and voiceover soldier on over where we'd
| presumably hear the theremin-style tones of 'an oscillator based
| on the length of the line'.
|
| The overall idea seems cool but I'm not sure how useful it would
| be outside of demos where you already know the questions to get
| the answers you want.
| TheRealPomax wrote:
| Not sure calling this "new" pays enough homage to the literal 40+
| years we've been doing experiments like this already, but it's
| still neat.
| jsheard wrote:
| This time they added AI key-jingling though!
| torlok wrote:
| I can't imagine a projector being more practical than AR glasses.
| cayleyh wrote:
| Hear me out: Projector Glasses
| outofpaper wrote:
| Jeri Ellsworth's platform is just this. Rerto reflective
| mats/screens that show each user only their own projections.
| I haven't used them but friends that have loved them.
| outofpaper wrote:
| Also this really reminds me of
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uI7J3II59lc
| EvanAnderson wrote:
| I have some of the Tilt5 glasses. They're pretty cool,
| albeit I wish I had more to actually use them for. They've
| mostly sat in their case.
|
| They work very well in moderate light-- like the kind of
| lighting that you might have in a living room to watch
| television. I feel like they're a little washed-out in
| light bright enough to read by.
| jsheard wrote:
| Projectors are notoriously terrible in well lit environments,
| especially if you don't have a specialized screen to project
| onto, and double especially if you don't want one that needs
| active cooling and constantly dumps hundreds of watts of heat
| into the room.
| ipsum2 wrote:
| Considering that there are no commercial AR glasses with
| spatial tracking, projectors are a lot more practical!
| nexustext wrote:
| Does anyone remember MIT's Sixth Sense? It won a massive amount
| of awards in 2009. It was going to change the world.
|
| Wearable gestural interfaces that would free people from
| computers. Until the mass hallucination stopped and people
| realised projectors just don't work like that in the real world.
| hlfshell wrote:
| Reminds me of Bonfire from... Jeez 2009.
| https://youtu.be/O3MZYRAZJNk?si=C9fcjABHWwOxbs5O
| deadbabe wrote:
| Great, more apps.
| amazingamazing wrote:
| Maybe this will work when we live in dark caves. DOA until then.
| mgraczyk wrote:
| A long time ago I interviewed at an Andy Rubin company building
| something similar for telepresence.
|
| I asked, why wouldn't the user just mount a few iPads on the
| wall? It would be cheaper.
|
| Their answer made no sense, and the product never launched.
| eightysixfour wrote:
| This site's DNS does not resolve for me on either Cloudflare or
| Google's DNS, but I can resolve it using MXtoolbox and some other
| DNS checkers. New site?
| MitPitt wrote:
| I'll add touchDesigner to the list of things other people are
| mentioning here. It's probably the most expansive software piece
| of this kind.
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