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The web is plenty immersive when there aren’t 84738473 ads and user hostile UX layouts and popups and shifting layouts and all the other things everyone ought to already know are bad.
Imagine, for example, opening your favorite brand’s website and being presented with a miniature virtual storefront. You could look at their most popular products as if you were standing on a sidewalk peering into their shop. I imagined this as instructed as was simultaneously bored and depressed. Why does it always have to be about shopping.
I imagine a youtube where the ads would pause as soon as you don't look at them anymore. Like that one black mirror episode. But yes, first promote some gimmicky fun stuff to get the foot in the door and when it has arrived, show the real face.
The techniques themselves are very cool and inspiring. That said, the reason such things do/don't take off isn't about how cool they are, generally. It's about how useful they are. Even for games, immersion and realism are secondary to gameplay. For most applications, it's hard to see how a "realistic window" is useful. A flat paper, paper-like screen is better to read off, for example. Cool tech. Definitely worth ex…
I can also see doctors having a use for this tech
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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?"
Or invade my privacy otherwise
Research indicates the ideal reading speed for corporate PR emails is 40 wpm and your teamwork KPI at review time will be stack ranked based on how close you move your eyes to the ideal 40 wpm reading rate.
Cynical take: Seems like an excuse for Shopify to add eye tracking to product pages for ad analytics
I'd imagine not many people are willing to give the webcam permissions to e-commerce shops.
The reality is the fixed flat scrollable page was a huge step up from the real world reading experience.
Reintroducing 3D in a 2D space in a real 3D world is beyond useless without a dramatic shift in what media is consumed. And there is no atomic element of media right now that might benefit other than Instagram adding lights-box size 3D image to its feed for ads.
Wait… oh no…
This is the perfect example of a really cool solution desperately looking for a problem
Imo the real problem is more a lack of imagination mixed with too much fear.
The fire phone did this 7 years later with 4 front facing tracking cameras and nobody cared
He managed to get a brand new in box one, not spoiling if it works or not you'll have to watch to find out...