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Sortie en mer – A trip out to sea
- rememberlenny 12y agoWas this a Oculus production?
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- reportingsjr 12y agoI got 3mins 28s before drowning and then it said "you tire faster than you think at sea. Always wear a life jacket." I'm gonna go with it being an interesting PSA.
- listic 12y agoHow do you even try to stay afloat? I get 0. EDIT: Ok, you scroll up. For some reason, it didn't work for me last time I've seen this. 5m02s. But you cannot win in this (not)game. Splendidly done.
- kenbellows 12y agoIf you've got a mouse with a scroll wheel, scroll "down" constantly to stay afloat
- tootie 12y agoI'll bet I could cheat it with WebDriver or something, but I'm not that industrious.
- pgrote 12y agoVery well done. At one point I thought I could bob on the surface. Nope.
- saganus 12y agoThis looks very interesting. However for those of us with a slow internet connection, the fact that I can't pause and let it load means my experience is cut every few seconds.
- sirwolfgang 12y agoDevelop as part of an interactive experience by the agency CLM BBDO for yachtwear manufacturer Guy Cotten and released on Apr 24, 2014. The goal is to remind people to buy and wear lifejackets.
- 32faction 12y agoDefinitely convinced me. I figured life jackets on boats are what seatbelts are to cars. It's a small thing you probably should put on.
- acjohnson55 12y agoI just get the splash page, and then nothing. I assume I'm missing something?
- lkurtz 12y agoWhenever you go out to sea... well... just don't go out to sea.
- PeterWhittaker 12y agoPlease - include an "autoplay" notice in headlines.
- ekidd 12y agoVery nicely done, technically. And the marketing message is both true and useful: Swimming at sea is surprisingly hard, and life jackets make a huge difference. I was once a very strong swimmer, and back then, I tried swimming 60 feet to shore in water with choppy, 6-inch waves. I wound up repeatedly inhaling water and choking. To combat this, I tried to keep my head high above the water, which was exhausting. After 30 feet, it was clear I was in real trouble, so I called to the rowboat shadowing me 5 feet away and they towed me to shore. Similarly, cold water will shut me down frighteningly fast—even with a wetsuit and lifejacket, I've been stunned into near immobility after less than a minute of swimming. And I'm somebody who grew up swimming in the Gulf of Maine, which can be frigid (because Cape Cod deflects the warmer Gulf Stream eastward). The actual risk here is cold shock, not hypothermia—rapid vasoconstriction in your limbs will flood your core with blood, causing your heart to work much harder to maintain circulation. It's incredibly draining. A life-jacket will keep your head above water with minimal exertion. This means that (a) you keep breathing and (b) you remain visible to rescuers. It turns survival from an incredibly strenuous and terrifying athletic event into largely passive floating.
- dbbolton 12y agoThe peripheral vasoconstriction is part of a reflex known as the mammalian dive reflex in which your heart actually slows down, rather than work harder, as soon as your face touches cold water. Muscle cramping is a direct result in the decrease in cardiac output. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian_diving_reflex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian_diving_reflex
- shiggerino 12y agoAnother thing to note about mammalian diving reflex is that the nasal cavity is especially susceptible to triggering it. Which is why it's important to hold ones nose when jumping in the water to abandon ship, regardless of how silly it may look. And at this point you don't need a life jacket, you need an immersion suit.
- puzzlingcaptcha 12y agoLife jacket is good, but in higher seas one of the main problems (assuming the crew remaining on board is actually competent) is visibility - consider investing into something like a dan buoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMGWk6s9G4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMGWk6s9G4k
- fit2rule 12y agoThat made me very, very uncomfortable. Probably one of the worst things I've ever felt while comfortably sitting in front of my computer, browsing the web. Well done! :)
- spain 12y ago> That made me very, very uncomfortable. Probably one of the worst things I've ever felt while comfortably sitting in front of my computer, browsing the web. No kidding. I only noticed after it was over how much I was sweating. It was pretty powerful.
- swamp40 12y agoI was doing good until he tore his fingernail off. Yuck! Is that something that really happens?
- 32faction 12y agoI think what they were going for is the water can be so cold you loose the sensation in your fingers so trying to get a response combined with decreased body temperature, results in applying too much force to break it off. Also makes for a good cringe factor to make the simulation feel even more real.
- joncp 12y agoSo, let's see... autoplay, splash screen, a video with no navigation controls. That site's UX sucks in a big way, so why is it #2 on HN?
- simi_ 12y agoIs this trolling? I honestly can't tell.
- mattsoldo 12y agoThe UX of this app is quite innovative and immersive. You are applying heuristics that are true for man websites, but don't apply here. I would say this is more like a simple video game. It would make no sense for example to have navigation control over this video. That is the point, you can't just rewind to before the accident occurred.
- nbardy 12y agoBecause sometimes quality content in buried underneath a bad user experience. EDIT: Not that I actually think its a bad UI. But either way its not always about the UI.
- axeldelmas 12y agoWell probably because that's a very creative way to spread their marketing message. And because it is very well done technically as well: stitching video segments in an order that depends on user action, without any visible transition, means they put a lot of work on that. So I don't think general UX/video guidelines apply in this case, even if they're valid for most cases for online video. Sure, they should probably have used an adaptive bitrate video for users with poor connection, because here they can't pause and let the video prebuffer for a while. Other than that this is pretty impressive
- dredmorbius 12y agoYou're not getting much love, but I agree with you. I land on a blank page. Nothing seeing. Flagged the post.
- joshontheweb 12y agoWhen I was a boy scout we were taught to take off our pants, tie knots in them and fill them with air either by blowing or by throwing them over and down on the water. You can create a makshift life jacket this way. Wet fabric can hold air. It isn't perfect, you have to keep refilling air as it leaks but it does work. I was in a swimming pool and not high seas so not sure how effective it would be in that situation. Definitely better than just treading water though.
- zimbu668 12y agoI was doing laps in college one time when an ROTC class was practicing this. At the same time they were learning how to use their M16s(or something in the family) while swimming.
- WillNotDownvote 12y agoThis was also part of the Survival Swimming course that used to be mandatory at Georgia Tech back in the olden days. At some point in the class, we had to jump off the high dive, use our pants as described, and remain floating in the deep end of the pool for some length of time (30 minutes I think?) Fun class, but I shouldn't have taken it in a poorly insulated gym at 8 am Winter Quarter. Brrr.
- mjlee 12y agoHaving a competent crew helps too. I'm in the Royal Navy. We practice a man overboard every time we sail and we critique each one. We even restrict movement on the upper deck after dark. We're professional sailors who live at sea - if you take a yacht out with a friend and you haven't been to sea since last summer you need to practice your man overboard drills.
- Animats 12y agoAll I get is a black screen with an intro logo, and an endless loop of ocean sounds. Won't play in a reasonably secured Firefox 35 on Linux. "This operation is insecure" - main.js:6 Because a huge function is on one line, it's hard to diagnose the problem.
- jordanlev 12y agoPerhaps you have cookies or localStorage disabled? I browse that way by default and it is unfortunate the number of sites that just plain don't work (without any kind of message to that effect).
- Animats 12y agoOf course I do. The question, of course, is what else is that site doing that needs cookies or local storage?
- jordigh 12y agoCookies disabled here, Iceweasel on Debian. I only get the intro on loop. And I can't full-screen. Once I allow cookies, the thing loads. Why does a website need cookies in order to show me a video?
- tabrischen 12y agoIt would be interesting to see full length feature films developed in this technique.
- mintplant 12y agoI made it to 4:30. Is there more to the story (more flashbacks?) if you survive for longer? I got the impression that Charles was deliberately trying to kill Julien. Maybe I'm reading too much into this. Also, there's a nice double-meaning in the French version of the title. "Sortie en mer" means "sea trip", but taken word-for-word, it could also mean "trip in the sea".
- lfowles 12y agoI didn't pay 100% attention to the dialogue at the beginning, but I was led to believe that Charles was "along for the ride" and not experienced enough to know what to do in emergency.
- bigbugbag 12y agoHaving a trackpoint equipped computer I scroll to infinity with no effort, I tried a few times and the character always drown around the 5 minutes mark. I suppose the whole thing is well made and everybody gets to see Charles waving goodbye and laughing right before the character drowns.
- kybernetyk 12y agoSo why didn't the other guy turn back?
- wffurr 12y agoSame reason he jibed unintentionally. He doesn't know how to sail.
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- driverdan 12y agoNo pause button and not fully preloading made this unusable on a "slow" (<10Mb) connection.
- bigbugbag 12y agoIt seems appropriate to plug this article "Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning" : http://gcaptain.com/drowning/?10981 http://gcaptain.com/drowning/?10981
- cbd1984 12y agoThis works for a while, then freezes.
- froo 12y agoThis is exactly why my girlfriend and I always use our PFD's with harnesses when passagemaking and alternating watches. It's a simple thing to strap into the jacklines and all but eliminates our fears about this sort of thing happening.
- ruggeri 12y agoI want to watch, but can't transfer fast enough. Therefore: wget https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/guy-cotten/videos/guy_cotten_experience_master_720p.mp4 https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/guy-cotten/videos/guy_cot... Hope that helps someone.
- gie 12y agoWho else here waiting for sharks?
- confiscate 12y agoi can't get past 5 min. Is 5 min the hard upper limit of how long you can play this game?