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> If the web was being made form scratch today, it would probably start with a repurposed game engine. Doubtfully, for the same reason that VR is still looking
by ethbr0 4y ago
> If the web was being made form scratch today, it would probably start with a repurposed game engine.
Doubtfully, for the same reason that VR is still looking for a general purpose problem.
Visual metaphors are great when demonstrated visually (e.g. in futuristic movies), but their information bandwidth sucks compared to text et al.
Or to put it another way, how many emojis would it take to convey the content of this post reliably?
- TuringTest 4y ago> Visual metaphors are great when demonstrated visually (e.g. in futuristic movies), but their information bandwidth sucks compared to text et al. Holy false dichotomy there, Batman! VR had some problems in the first batch of devices with low resolution, but as resolution improves there's no reason why it can't be integrated as first-class in it. There's no need for the structure of the text to be a long linear sequence. When you put together a sequence of more than a few paragraphs, it is convenient to group them into a text chunk under a headline; and in fact these chunks can be placed in non-linear structures such as trees and networks, which benefit from a visual representation. The 3D environment of VR would allow better manipulation of these structured text structures in space, compared to the limited 2D possibilities of minimaps and tables of contents.
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