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Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?

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Re: Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?

#11
I don’t know any of the science behind it, but my experience with these kinds of ideas (including the 2007 wiimote target demo which I replicated and showed to family), is that they feel exhausting to use beyond a 15 min novelty.

My guess is that the brain detects that the motions and such are not quite right, and like a wrong eyeglass prescription, your brain and eyes work overtime trying to figure out compensation.

Re: Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?

#14

I'm fairly convinced that the immediate potential of AR is tricks like this, which will whet people's appetite for more.

Maybe. But when Apple added that kind of parallax/motion to iPhone/iPad people flipped: "It makes me feel sick." Well, some people.

Did it use eye tracking or was it just using the tilt sensors?

Re: Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?

#17
> That video is from 2007, and yet the technology being shown is so impressive that it feels like it could have been made yesterday.

Really? Who thinks this in 2023? I thought it was a fun little demo back then, but that was it. Both then and now I just want AR as the default for everything and for screens to die already. We've had the tech for it since then too, but not enough demand from general consumers.

Re: Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?

#18
post #13

It doesn't work if 2 people are looking at the screen?

It works fine but the image will only appear 3D to the person wearing the sensor because the effect is entirely based on responding to the wearer's head movement.

Re: Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?

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post #19

Having it be targeted as in-browser, not to mention for shopping (?!) Is weird. But it seems like an interesting technique. I wonder if it would be more applicable to an iphone app where the hardware is more consistent.

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