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Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

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Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

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Post by cyxxon »

sinuhe69 wrote: post #48

I got 32 out of 33 :) The scripts, weather and the people are the telltale clues.

Yeah, I had a similar score. It is way too easy, I'd say. I often had video segments that gave the answer away: a skyline with skyscrapers, and a list with one mega city and three random unknown towns, I had the Eiffel tower, and several signs with the location name. I know that the last can't be filtered out, but maybe the selection of the three wrong choices needs to be made a bit more... similar?

Good work otherwise though, very nice!

Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

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Post by k_ »

jdhzzz wrote: post #46
beeboop wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the idea is to guess where you are. It keeps track how many you get right.

It took me a while to pick up on that. I first thought I was choosing where to go next. I then wasted a bunch of time on it. Fun.

Took me a while too. The domain (explordle) would have made it kind of obvious given the current trends of wordle clones, but I was misled by HN title which seemed to imply (imo at least) it was some kind of exploration app instead of a guessing game.

Still, enjoying it now :)

Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

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Post by mbustamanter »

Awesome work! First time I played I got 50/55, generally I look for signs on the street, apart from the architecture of the place, how the people look and what language they speak. Naturally the US seems to be overrepresented, but on 4 of the questions I got wrong I was undecided between two american counties.

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Post by superasn »

This would be super incredible inside a vr headset like quest. But i think the video resolution must be scaled a lot like 4k at least, 8k preferably for it be meaningful.

I actually did have an app that was kind of similar and it used to make you exercise in streets of paris, etc in first-person pov but the video resolution was so bad it just didn't work. But i am sure there will be a huge demand for this in vr as it gets more popular.

Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

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Post by samieljabali »

meesterdude wrote: post #6

cool site, confusing UX.

When the app is playing audio & titles visible read:

- "unmuted" "visible"

instead of

- "mute", "hide".

Button/label showing current state of the app is better than how the state will change via the button.

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