You just… built exactly the thing I was working on. Except it looks better.
I’ve had this before, but I figured this project would be small and niche enough that it‘d never happen. Crazy shit.
Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks
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#32Pretty cool!
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#33[dupe]
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#34Looks: nice Usability: useless
You could say the same about a physical library, yet most people wouldn't prefer a library of uniform books with 'boring' uniform spines.
This is not an argument, just a thought.
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#35Looks: nice Usability: useless
It’s only useless if you limit yourself to flatscreen technology. This is definitely useful for AR VR
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#36Very cool! I've wanted to build something similar to this for music. Some virtual environment where you can organize your albums on shelves and play them on a turntable. You could even extend this so you have to walk to a store to buy new albums etc.
I can't remember the name, unfortunately, but a year ago, I saw a oculus quest VR environment which re-created a standard 90s era bedroom. The user could then add a text file containing a bunch of YouTube URLs and all the associated YouTube videos got represented as physical VHS tapes that you had to put into the actual VCR in order to play them on the TV in the room.
Most probably EmuVR.
You also get to play NES and some other systems on a variety of old virtual TVs. :)
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#37You just… built exactly the thing I was working on. Except it looks better. I’ve had this before, but I figured this project would be small and niche enough that it‘d never happen. Crazy shit.
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#38Looks great. Though while I love me some skeuomorphism, it goes too far when it is plainly detrimental to usability, which it is here - I have to crane my neck sideways to read the titles. In a virtual world, the books could be stacked horizontally so that the titles are readable with user head upright.
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#39Something very similar was done a while ago by Petar Gyurov:
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#40This is awesome! If we want to extend this to be a whole virtual library, are there datasets that people know about for book covers? One thing that would be cool is book spine datasets!
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