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Spatial Pixel: a new kind of social computing
- EarlKing 2y agoIs this a spinoff of DynamicLand?
- taneq 2y agoI was thinking the Augmented Reality Sandbox (https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/SARndbox/ https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/SARndbox/) but yeah, that too!
- seltzered_ 2y agoNot sure, there's also been projects like https://folk.computer https://folk.computer which iirc was done by someone who was had a bit of involvement with Dynamicland
- taneq 2y agoUh, "can you now make a noise" and "can you not make a noise" are very different instructions. Also noting that the plonky xylophone music and voiceover soldier on over where we'd presumably hear the theremin-style tones of 'an oscillator based on the length of the line'. The overall idea seems cool but I'm not sure how useful it would be outside of demos where you already know the questions to get the answers you want.
- TheRealPomax 2y agoNot sure calling this "new" pays enough homage to the literal 40+ years we've been doing experiments like this already, but it's still neat.
- jsheard 2y agoThis time they added AI key-jingling though!
- torlok 2y agoI can't imagine a projector being more practical than AR glasses.
- cayleyh 2y agoHear me out: Projector Glasses
- outofpaper 2y agoJeri Ellsworth's platform is just this. Rerto reflective mats/screens that show each user only their own projections. I haven't used them but friends that have loved them.
- outofpaper 2y agoAlso this really reminds me of https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uI7J3II59lc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uI7J3II59lc
- EvanAnderson 2y agoI have some of the Tilt5 glasses. They're pretty cool, albeit I wish I had more to actually use them for. They've mostly sat in their case. They work very well in moderate light-- like the kind of lighting that you might have in a living room to watch television. I feel like they're a little washed-out in light bright enough to read by.
- jsheard 2y agoProjectors are notoriously terrible in well lit environments, especially if you don't have a specialized screen to project onto, and double especially if you don't want one that needs active cooling and constantly dumps hundreds of watts of heat into the room.
- ipsum2 2y agoConsidering that there are no commercial AR glasses with spatial tracking, projectors are a lot more practical!
- nexustext 2y agoDoes anyone remember MIT's Sixth Sense? It won a massive amount of awards in 2009. It was going to change the world. Wearable gestural interfaces that would free people from computers. Until the mass hallucination stopped and people realised projectors just don't work like that in the real world.
- hlfshell 2y agoReminds me of Bonfire from... Jeez 2009. https://youtu.be/O3MZYRAZJNk?si=C9fcjABHWwOxbs5O https://youtu.be/O3MZYRAZJNk?si=C9fcjABHWwOxbs5O
- deadbabe 2y agoGreat, more apps.
- amazingamazing 2y agoMaybe this will work when we live in dark caves. DOA until then.
- mgraczyk 2y agoA long time ago I interviewed at an Andy Rubin company building something similar for telepresence. I asked, why wouldn't the user just mount a few iPads on the wall? It would be cheaper. Their answer made no sense, and the product never launched.
- eightysixfour 2y agoThis site's DNS does not resolve for me on either Cloudflare or Google's DNS, but I can resolve it using MXtoolbox and some other DNS checkers. New site?
- MitPitt 2y agoI'll add touchDesigner to the list of things other people are mentioning here. It's probably the most expansive software piece of this kind.