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Hyper-Reality (2016) [video]
- beefman 3y agoThe creator, Keiichi Matsuda, has released this app for Vision Pro https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wisp-world/id6476198961 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wisp-world/id6476198961
- SebFender 3y agoJust the sound makes me noxious
- doublerabbit 3y agoI was going to say Cyber-Reality sounded worse, but actually doesn't sound too bad.
- mostlysimilar 3y agoCharming and lovely. I would absolutely plop that down on my desk if I had a Vision Pro.
- pimlottc 3y agoWhen you "this app", I thought you meant a version of the experience in the posted video. To be clear, it's something completely different.
- dang 3y agoRelated: Hyper Reality [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29813343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29813343 - Jan 2022 (2 comments) Hyper-Reality [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11754564 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11754564 - May 2016 (108 comments) Augmented (hyper)Reality. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110539 - Jan 2011 (2 comments)
- Animats 3y agoThat's a great video. I've been saying for years that it's the Zuckerberg version of augmented reality. But Apple shipped first.
- jazzyjackson 3y agoI'm fascinated by the way apple dodges blame for the degeneracy of social media. Sure people are logging into facebook and tiktok, but Apple makes the device that lets you carry it with you. I like to say they made spending time on your phone desirable.
- CrzyLngPwd 3y agoThe worst part of it is that it could happen. Great video :-)
- cglong 3y agoFrom the comments of a previous submission: > AR could be an awesome tools. Maybe it will be - if we can keep the people who ruined the mobile and the web out of it. Eight years later, the two biggest names in this space are Apple (who ruined mobile by turning it into a money making machine) and Meta (one of the biggest names in targeted advertising on the web).
- 38 3y agoyeah, thats depressing. the modern web is an absolute hellscape. even stuff as simple as documentation. the old Go docs used to look like this: https://godocs.io/fmt https://godocs.io/fmt now its this nightmare: https://pkg.go.dev/fmt https://pkg.go.dev/fmt
- krapp 3y agoA lot of the modern web is terrible, but your example of a "nightmare" still seems to be a clean, well formatted and informative page without ads, popups, or any of the usual bugbears, unless I'm not seeing them. The modern version just adds more information in the header. To each their own but I would consider that an example of how modern web design can be done correctly.
- 38 3y agoIt looks decent enough, but they forgot that it actually needs to be usable.
- krapp 3y agoIt what way is it not usable?
- 38 3y ago1. change the width of the window. you will see the layout of the page change at least 10 times. 2. scroll down. you will see the layout of the page change at least 4 times. 3. the single most important part of the page, the NAVIGATION, is hidden inside a drop down. so every single navigation for every page forever takes a click, mouse down and click again. instead of just clicking a link like the old style. 4. fixed elements on the top AND side. the whole page is just a painfully obvious over engineered piece of shit, that may look nice, but is awful for actually navigating/using.
- dvh 3y agoThe best/worst part is when the headset restarts and noise cancelling stops working, you can suddenly hear the baby crying in the background at 4:00
- z7 3y agoIn the grocery store: enter your shopping list into an app and it will calculate the shortest path to collect all items and display corresponding arrows on the floor.
- thrance 3y agoBut that would defeat the purpose of the confusing layout made specifically to have you see a maximum number of products, deliberately wasting your time!
- rbanffy 3y agoI imagine there'll be a huge market for ad blockers on AR platforms.
- denvaar 3y agoClicked expecting an Adam Curtis documentary, but turns out I was thinking of HyperNormalisation (also 2016).
- nox101 3y agoI know this video is both a dystopian vision and also an inspiring vision at the same time but, now that we have VR/AR/MR and thought through the privacy implications, most of what's in this video seems close to impossible without zero privacy. Want bus notifications? They'd need to send them by your location, otherwise they'd have to broadcast all bus locations in the entire world to all people. Want info in the supermarket? The supermarket gets to know everywhere your eyes wondered. Not just which products you looked at but which other people you looked at. Similar issues for everything else. When I first saw this video back when it came out I was mostly on the inspired side and assumed I could turn off the ads. Now, not so much.
- CubsFan1060 3y agoI don't think it has to be like that. You already are giving "someone" that information when you look up a bus schedule on the web. But, downloading a bus schedule for an entire state doesn't seem unreasonable, and only locates you down to a state. I don't think the supermarket needs to know where your eyes wandered. An app can have information in it about all the products in the store and handle it on-device. There's no need to transmit real-time eye tracking to the store just for this purpose. I'm sure that stores would _love_ this information, but it's not needed for the experiences mentioned. I don't think you'd need any more information than you'd already provide by searching the web. Also, though I don't necessarily think Apple is altruistic in everything, if I'm guessing today, I think Apple would go a similar direction to iCloud Private Relay, and Meta would go the direction that you're worried about.
- nox101 3y agoA bus schedule doesn't give you what you see in that video. That video shows you the bus is arriving, not when the bus was scheduled to arrive. To show those things it needs to know where you are and where the bus is. Same with the supermarket. It shows you what's actually in front of you, not what some stocker claimed was there when they put stocked the shelf 6 to 72 hours ago. Other examples would include ads on stores. Your device can't show all ads simultaneously nor can it download all of them at once. Too much data. What it can do is ask each store for it's ad at the moment you get near but now you've just told the store you're near. Even near would be too much data though, looking down a busy shopping street or a a mall. It would likely only download what you look at and now the store knows what you looked.
- rco8786 3y agoThis is the first thing I thought of when I watched Casey Neistat’s VP review. He was obsessed with using it out in public, in NYC, where other reviews are in living rooms. I immediately imagined enhanced store signage, with dynamic, personalized ads floating in consistent space, placemarkers, directional arrows, etc. Love it or not. It seems to be what’s coming.
- DaleNeumann 3y agoI have a deep feeling that in the future on any given street a random group of people wearing glowing ski goggles will mindlessly flail there hands in the air talking to themselves in broken sentences that are impossible to make sense of, similar to the cellphone addicts of today who look down at there toes with indifference about the world around them, these hand flailing people will be another liability to consider when stepping off a bus platform onto a busy street.
- pseudosavant 3y agoIs that what the Android version of Vision Pro will end up being like?
- smingo 3y agoThe dystopia in the film version of Ready Player One clearly borrows from this.