Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together • Hacker News Board

Re: Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together

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Post by shard » Tue, May 18, 2021, 8:21 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #21

abhv wrote: post #2

A good friend of mine at Google is the technical lead of this project (he has a Phd Princeton, and was a professor before joining Google). I've tried it in person and it was truly amazing. They used some very fancy tech when I saw the demo, so I'm thrilled it is finally being announced and possibly shared with a larger audience. Explanation of why it is amazing: It totally fools your perception. No glasses or goggles…

Was this display developed by Google, or did they buy it from elsewhere? Is it still on the market?

I recall there being glasses-less 3D displays about 10 years ago, when the TV industry was trying to make 3D displays the next new thing. I wonder if this is the same technology.

Re: Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together

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Post by varispeed » Tue, May 18, 2021, 8:21 PM UTC

dpratt71 wrote: post #14

encryptluks2 wrote: post #11

While cool for the top 5% wealthiest people, I'd be more interested in tech for the other 95% that will actually be affordable.

What is an example of important technology that did not start as something only available to the affluent/connected?

A wheel

Re: Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together

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Post by frakkingcylons » Tue, May 18, 2021, 8:21 PM UTC

I would pay a lot of money if this was commercially available. Very impressive

Re: Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together

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Post by wizzwizz4 » Tue, May 18, 2021, 8:22 PM UTC

dpratt71 wrote: post #14

encryptluks2 wrote: post #11

While cool for the top 5% wealthiest people, I'd be more interested in tech for the other 95% that will actually be affordable.

What is an example of important technology that did not start as something only available to the affluent/connected?

Minecraft. Linux. (Really want to write GNU, but that's not true.)

Re: Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together

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Post by AdamTReineke » Tue, May 18, 2021, 8:22 PM UTC

mrfusion wrote: post #23

I’m confused what the 3d display screen is? I thought we didn’t have technology like that without glasses?

Appears similar to the tech in the Nintendo 3DS: lenses over the screen so each eye sees a different picture. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereoscopy

Re: Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together

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Post by bsanr2 » Tue, May 18, 2021, 8:23 PM UTC

dpratt71 wrote: post #14

encryptluks2 wrote: post #11

While cool for the top 5% wealthiest people, I'd be more interested in tech for the other 95% that will actually be affordable.

What is an example of important technology that did not start as something only available to the affluent/connected?

Penicillin. But then, he wasn't trying to make money off of it.

And basically anything Nintendo pushes as a console gimmick. It's not that the tech immediately goes from research to broadly accessible, but rather that they tend to take old tech that no one saw as having profitable consumer applications and find one for it. In that way, as far as consumers are concerned, it goes from unknown to widely-used without making a stopover in early-adapter purgatory.

Re: Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together

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Post by patall » Tue, May 18, 2021, 8:23 PM UTC

abhv wrote: post #2

A good friend of mine at Google is the technical lead of this project (he has a Phd Princeton, and was a professor before joining Google). I've tried it in person and it was truly amazing. They used some very fancy tech when I saw the demo, so I'm thrilled it is finally being announced and possibly shared with a larger audience. Explanation of why it is amazing: It totally fools your perception. No glasses or goggles…

Interesting. Does the light field work only for one person or multiple (they show mother and baby in the video)?

Re: Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together

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Post by bradneuberg » Tue, May 18, 2021, 8:23 PM UTC

mrfusion wrote: post #27

Much simpler idea but I think I’d get a good sense of being together to play table tennis over the quest with a friend. (Sadly none of my friends will buy a quest.)

I agree I love my Quest, and the sense of presence is amazing. Can't wait until more of my friend social network has them so we can meet up and do things like table tennis.

Re: Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together

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Post by ricopags » Tue, May 18, 2021, 8:23 PM UTC

Looks like tonari[0] will have some heavy competition sooner than expected. This seems to have a lot more attention paid to the sensation of depth than the tonari offering. Could see this being popular at high end senior care facilities.

[0]https://tonari.no

Re: Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together

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Post by bsanr2 » Tue, May 18, 2021, 8:26 PM UTC

ortusdux wrote: post #7

somebodythere wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds super cool. I can't wait for LFD tech to become more accessible to consumers.

I've been thinking about pre-ordering the Looking glass portrait. $250 for the unit, and I already have a leap motion laying around. https://lookingglassfactory.com/product/portrait

It's neat and I'm waiting to see what creative things people come up with for it. A Japanese developer put together a Wizardry/Megaten-style dungeon-crawler demo:

https://twitter.com/mizzmayo/status/1394171128491487234