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This, extremely this. I wish we were more excited about volumetric displays or programmable matter, instead.
by bckr 4y ago
This, extremely this. I wish we were more excited about volumetric displays or programmable matter, instead.
- walleeee 4y agoagreed!
- denkmoon 4y agoMaybe I'm uninformed, but are those technologies not a long way off?
- bckr 4y agoWhat I care about is that people largely don't talk about them, even though they're at least as plausible as fully immerse VR, which looms large in the collective third eye. The public imagination is bent toward the cyber-dystopian, whereas these two technologies represent other possible futures.
- jazzyjackson 4y agogreat point, I consider the zuckerverse a kind of target fixation, where we are doomed to hit the dystopia because we can't look away / imagine an alternative
- walleeee 4y agoI really like this way of thinking about it- if we can't imagine different futures, we won't create them!
- jazzyjackson 4y agovolumetric displays have a lot of room for improvement but "looking glass" has been shipping a pretty slick product for a couple years now, I hope they can keep innovating https://lookingglassfactory.com/product/overview https://lookingglassfactory.com/product/overview I don't really know what programmable matter means, sounds like biology to me :)
- soared 4y agoTough to believe in a company that can’t even get their animated headers to size correctly on mobile. I’d love to see what the product looks like.. but on an iPhone 13/chrome I have no idea what the thing does.
- jazzyjackson 4y agofair critique, I just linked to that to show its a real thing you can buy here's a quick sizzle reel that shows the product - it's a stack of transparent displays that produces a very convincing depth hologram, I've seen them in person, they're really cool https://youtu.be/4pJxdNRA1CM https://youtu.be/4pJxdNRA1CM
- bckr 4y agoI love this thing! Very exciting!