This seems too good to be true.
Note that this "only" adds depth. It can't make anything appear to "come out of" the screen, the effect is more like a window. It's not like holograms in science fiction.
It's still pretty impressive tho.
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#32Do you think something like this would significantly improve experience for remote workers?
No. Better video won't help you with the basic struggles of social life, isolation and having to be on chat large portion of your working day.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really nice tip: Click the little keylock on the left side of the address bar when on medium, go into site settings, under javascript block it and medium articles will now load as just pure easy to read text :)
For me it removes images when doing this. I'm only surprised they don't require JS to display text yet.
The next version will use microservices where every single character on the page will be downloaded and rendered by a different web worker. Good for concurrency!
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#34Off-topic: Can someone please write a Firefox extension that removes that _stupid_ fucking popover on medium "Pardon blah blah give us your money". Does that shit really need to take over the entire fucking screen?
I wonder what the signup rate is. Does anybody actually start paying them money after getting this slammed in their face?
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#35The video game Prey2 features similar technology also called LookingGlass. It has a fairly prominent role in the story line. I wonder if the naming is a coincidence or a nod.
> ...coincidence or a nod.
That depends on the patent status. Without patent => nod; with patent => theft.
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#36Off-topic: Can someone please write a Firefox extension that removes that _stupid_ fucking popover on medium "Pardon blah blah give us your money". Does that shit really need to take over the entire fucking screen?
Block Javascript with uMatrix or similar, problem gone.
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#37This seems too good to be true.
Note that this "only" adds depth. It can't make anything appear to "come out of" the screen, the effect is more like a window. It's not like holograms in science fiction. It's still pretty impressive tho.
This looks like "coming out of the screen" to me: https://miro.medium.com/max/1200/1*-nm0AvcydVzyhgDFdh6V2g.gi...
Do you mean the effect doesn't work with back to front motion? Like that pan can't start in the back and move forward?
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#38Off-topic: Can someone please write a Firefox extension that removes that _stupid_ fucking popover on medium "Pardon blah blah give us your money". Does that shit really need to take over the entire fucking screen?
Really nice tip: Click the little keylock on the left side of the address bar when on medium, go into site settings, under javascript block it and medium articles will now load as just pure easy to read text :)
I don't see this feature? FF 70.0.1
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#39The camera motion makes it look like they're trying to hide something... like the effect only works horizontally, not vertically.
The looking Glass display is horizontal parallax only (HPO). HPO is a common information reduction method in the 3D display world. Most holographic stereograms, all rainbow holograms, and all 3D lenticulars are HPO. Occlusion, horizontal motion parallax and stereoscopic cues are preserved, which are our primary 3D cues.
The loss of vertical parallax changes computation from an N squared to N problem. An interactive display like the looking glass provides vertical parallax cues as a result of user interaction (rotating the object vertically with user interaction).
This class of display also does not have accommodation cues, but in the range of 3d cues accommodation is the weakest.
Looking Glass displays are great! Shawn and the team has done careful, practical engineering work to get these displays out there.
Ref: I have a PhD in 3D display technology and worked with holography pioneer Steve Benton and his group at MIT to develop the most advanced holographic stereograms at the time. I own a Looking Glass display.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me it removes images when doing this. I'm only surprised they don't require JS to display text yet.
The next version will use microservices where every single character on the page will be downloaded and rendered by a different web worker. Good for concurrency!
Plus, makes it easy to slap on a paywall for the vowels.