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visit and donate. they need help. it's foolish to speculate on the possibilities of a new medium on this extraordinarily limited medium. i can't even embed ima

• westoncb 9y ago
  I'm pursuing similar lines myself, and am only able to work in spare moments due to lack of funds, so I'm in no position to donate. > it's foolish to speculate on the possibilities of a new medium on this extraordinarily limited medium I'll be happy to be shown otherwise, but I haven't yet found any counter-example to the idea that the 'verbal medium' is sufficient to describe any principle. So my original question still remains: is there some principle which would allow them to achieve similar generality to traditional computing without using some kind of re-combinable primitives? Edit: to be more specific: without that, how could this ever compete with AR? People could build their own spatially interesting, room-scale workspaces without having to find physical materials to build every application out of. The fact that it can deal with actual physical things has an appeal to it, but I can't see any way of escaping the tradeoff of a massive loss in generality.
  • Glench 9y ago
    > how could this ever compete with AR? "How could the written word ever compete with pictograms?" It's a different medium with real benefits and tradeoffs. Right now for you it's all theoretical, but one day hopefully you'll be able to see for yourself if the medium has the time to grow, breathe, expand, and develop. Funding Dynamicland means that we as a species have the option of seeing how that medium might work if it was allowed to flourish.
    • westoncb 9y ago
      We'll, I wish you guys luck and sincerely hope this removes some desk time from my life :)