[HN Gopher] Meta Is Building a Smart TV in VR
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       Meta Is Building a Smart TV in VR
        
       Author : signa11
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2025-10-19 16:50 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | andsoitis wrote:
       | There's an opportunity to break out of the LRUD-driven user
       | interfaces and input modality.
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       | Only issue is all the TV apps that will run on this virtual smart
       | TV assume LRUD, so I don't have high hopes for a transcendent
       | advancement in usability. Not even Apple, who introduced a touch
       | remote, control the Apple TV (hardware) and the Apple TV app
       | attempted to supersede LRUD.
       | 
       | LG's pointer-based input devices (you can think of it as a mouse)
       | have been with us for many years now, but hasn't caught on with
       | more device manufacturers.
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       | Some people hold out hope for Voice UI, but it has a number of
       | downsides that make it worse than LRUD.
       | 
       | Once you rethink the vending machine interface, maybe a different
       | modality reveals it self.
        
         | dmonitor wrote:
         | I still hold to how amazing the Wii's user interface was. All
         | pointer-based, using simple IR cameras, an underpowered CPU,
         | and a downright ancient IMU (it didn't even have a gyroscope!)
        
         | pimlottc wrote:
         | I think LRUD means "left-right-up-down" here? I had to google
         | it.
        
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