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Cynical take: Seems like an excuse for Shopify to add eye tracking to product pages for ad analytics
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Cynical take: Seems like an excuse for Shopify to add eye tracking to product pages for ad analytics
Unfortunately it's stuff like this that's poisoned otherwise cool new tech for me. I can't help but wonder "how will this be used to advertise to me?"
That idea has been around for years, for "virtual windows". This is from 2010.[1] The illusion only works for one person at a time, so, as a window, it's not too useful. For games, as someone pointed out, it works fine.[2] Although it hasn't gone mainstream. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqu9NuINKbc [2] https://www.trackir.com/
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The New Nintendo 3DS was based around this, and although they abandoned it I think there's still a lot of room for something like it. It's more AR than AR is.
Did it do head tracking? It always seemed gimmicky to me, but I’ve heard that the Mario brothers 3D worked a lot better with the depth element than in any of the remakes (I did it enjoy it just fine on my switch)
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The New Nintendo 3DS was based around this, and although they abandoned it I think there's still a lot of room for something like it. It's more AR than AR is.
Did it do head tracking? It always seemed gimmicky to me, but I’ve heard that the Mario brothers 3D worked a lot better with the depth element than in any of the remakes (I did it enjoy it just fine on my switch)
It was fun and worked pretty well, but it was very much a gimmick.
EDIT: Just saw the other comment, I didn't know the New 3DS had actual eye tracking. Neat!
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Unfortunately it's stuff like this that's poisoned otherwise cool new tech for me. I can't help but wonder "how will this be used to advertise to me?"
One of the cooler takes of Bitcoin or "crypto" is that you can use native tokens to pay for visiting websites. A browser plugin combined with a lightning wallet for instance could enable a website to request a payment of any amount of Satoshis to view the site, or it will redirect you to a 402 error page. This generates a way of monetizing content without the need for ads or tracking.
Like, bouncing objects on grey surfaces, or dots that aren't there
I would love to see these illusions explored more and used to enrich UIs in some way.