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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 mncharity »

I enjoy such videos, but find them problematic. I'd like to filter by bouncing-camera style vs no-bounce, or perhaps on degree of bounce. Avoiding-pan style vs slow pan vs pan vs swivel to interesting things. Interesting things can be fun, but... "fun, fun, fun, fun, zap ouch! - now I get to be queasy for an hour". So perhaps intra-video filtering, like automatic blackouts, or vr-like "given the current angular velocity, we'll gray out much of the display, narrowing the field of view to a smaller circle, to avoid sickness"? Can a plug-in see an embedded video to do optical flow? Perhaps a site already curating such videos might value-add some image analysis? Are there popular channels with moments problematic for some viewers, perhaps creating a persistent niche for a mediating middleman?

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

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Post by sanitycheck »

Very good! I like this a lot, my wife and I just spent 20 mins on it.

Thoughts:

There is too much USA, for people outside the USA. Multiple choice between different counties in the same US state becomes just guesswork, maybe that situation could be prevented. (Also, non-Americans don't know the abbreviations for most US states.)

It's too easy when the choices are too geographically diverse. Maybe the 'wrong' options could be selected based on a min + max distance from the location in the video, say 500km to 5000km.

Needs a pause button so I don't have to close the tab, or if there is one it needs to be more prominent.

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

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Post by eddieweng »

sanitycheck wrote: post #74

Very good! I like this a lot, my wife and I just spent 20 mins on it. Thoughts: There is too much USA, for people outside the USA. Multiple choice between different counties in the same US state becomes just guesswork, maybe that situation could be prevented. (Also, non-Americans don't know the abbreviations for most US states.) It's too easy when the choices are too geographically diverse. Maybe the 'wrong' options…

Hello, glad you guys like it! I've changed the pause/play mechanism of the game. Now when the tab is not focused, it will automatically pause the video. Is this good enough for you?
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