This looks pretty neat but also distracting and not very convenient. A useful follow mode should provide a view into the next several dozen seconds of road conditions. This projection forces road sections after sharp turns to go off screen, and does nothing to compensate for that (e.g. by rotating the view), so the distance and time of useful prediction changes constantly. Since you're already willing to give the driver nausea, consider unwrapping 90 degree turns into something more straight until they're close enough.
Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
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Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#42I see a whole new business category being born: Nausea as a Service!
Yeah it made me feel the instant onset of what I recognize from vast personal experience as motion sickness. I would never be able to use this.
Even aside from that, the constant feeling of going downhill would be off-putting to me.
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#43First time I saw this idea was Berg's "Here and There" poster from 2009 (a year before Inception) though they acknowledge a bunch of earlier inspirations... https://berglondon.com/blog/2009/05/04/here-there-influences...
That seems like enough prior art to invalidate much of what could conceivably be considered novel in the pending patent...
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#44Is this supposed to be usable at all on Firefox Android?
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#45This would be an insane video game map.
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#46What problem does it solve tho ?
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#47This looks pretty neat but also distracting and not very convenient. A useful follow mode should provide a view into the next several dozen seconds of road conditions. This projection forces road sections after sharp turns to go off screen, and does nothing to compensate for that (e.g. by rotating the view), so the distance and time of useful prediction changes constantly. Since you're already willing to give the dri…
I found it useful because it shows context for the next turn and information about the street network near the next turn
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#48This is pretty intuitive and useful, I think. I would suggest swapping to an angle equal to half the angle of the turn once your approach is within a certain distance, to show the user what is coming up around that turn. Frequently you need to turn then turn, so seeing 'ahead' a bit would be cool
Zero chance you can patent this though.
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#49I see a whole new business category being born: Nausea as a Service!
Yeah it made me feel the instant onset of what I recognize from vast personal experience as motion sickness. I would never be able to use this. Even aside from that, the constant feeling of going downhill would be off-putting to me.
Yea, I felt like I was perpetually at the top of a roller coaster and going over the hump, but never finding the bottom. And I like roller coasters. But no thanks. Not even sure what the benefits of this view really are.
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#50Patent Pending, In europe?
TIL Software Patents are still totally a thing in Europe via a back door.