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Information(Idea in mind) => Write a document => Write on PC and print out on paper => Display on screen Two dimension paper or screen is never the b

Information(Idea in mind) => Write a document => Write on PC and print out on paper => Display on screen Two dimension paper or screen is never the best way of displaying information, but it is the cheap and easy one. the core problem is how we organize and display information, I don't think the old screen will solve it in the good way, but recently MR, AR show us the three dimension way, maybe we can find more dimension in the future.

simonh 7y ago
I see people write things like this from time to time, but I'm not convinced this will work out in practice. Human 3D vision is quite limited. We have distance perception, but it's quite crude and we have no way to perceive through things, to see their actual depth or full dimensionality. We only get a view of the side facing us. In fact fake 3D on two dimensional displays provides a very convincing analogue. The primary way we exchange information is text and for that 3D provides no advantage, in fact it makes it worse by being distracting. Visual representations are a niche for representing certain constrained forms of formatted data, in the form of charts. These can be very compelling for very structured and regularised information. The old saying that a picture paints a thousand words is all very well, but if I give you an arbitrary thousand word text, you'll have a heck of a time representing that entirely visually.
- pharke 7y ago
  We do have 3D senses, but the primary ones aren't vision. Proprioception tells us the position of our body in space and is relevant to the discussion because we can tag and encode information based on posture or movement, think hand-gestures, body language, right hand rule, counting on fingers, etc. Another is enabled by the existence of grid cells[1] in the brain. These allow us to be aware of (and imagine) our position in Euclidean space. This is where AR/MR could really shine by bringing the Memory Palace mnemonic to life and possibly extending it in all kinds of fantastic ways. People have exploited these senses for millennia as memory aids and ways of understanding and interpreting information, we shouldn't lose that tradition and should make every effort to enhance it with modern technology rather than replace it with a single interface metaphor. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell

simonh 7y ago

I see people write things like this from time to time, but I'm not convinced this will work out in practice. Human 3D vision is quite limited. We have distance perception, but it's quite crude and we have no way to perceive through things, to see their actual depth or full dimensionality. We only get a view of the side facing us. In fact fake 3D on two dimensional displays provides a very convincing analogue. The primary way we exchange information is text and for that 3D provides no advantage, in fact it makes it worse by being distracting. Visual representations are a niche for representing certain constrained forms of formatted data, in the form of charts. These can be very compelling for very structured and regularised information. The old saying that a picture paints a thousand words is all very well, but if I give you an arbitrary thousand word text, you'll have a heck of a time representing that entirely visually.

pharke 7y ago
We do have 3D senses, but the primary ones aren't vision. Proprioception tells us the position of our body in space and is relevant to the discussion because we can tag and encode information based on posture or movement, think hand-gestures, body language, right hand rule, counting on fingers, etc. Another is enabled by the existence of grid cells[1] in the brain. These allow us to be aware of (and imagine) our position in Euclidean space. This is where AR/MR could really shine by bringing the Memory Palace mnemonic to life and possibly extending it in all kinds of fantastic ways. People have exploited these senses for millennia as memory aids and ways of understanding and interpreting information, we shouldn't lose that tradition and should make every effort to enhance it with modern technology rather than replace it with a single interface metaphor. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell