Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?
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#2I'm fairly convinced that the immediate potential of AR is tricks like this, which will whet people's appetite for more.
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#3I'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.
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#4> Imagine, for example, opening your favorite brand’s website and being presented with a miniature virtual storefront.
I would puke
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#5Can't help but notice that we keep wanting to make content that should be flat more 3D (e.g., animated 3D backgrounds, scroll filler on corporate pages, the entire metaverse), and content that could benefit from being 3D more flat (like UI buttons losing their pseudo-3D bevels and not looking like interactive widgets at all).
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#7I still remember the first time I saw the Wii head tracking video. I had no idea anything like that was possible. I don't get why it didn't take off
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#8I still remember the first time I saw the Wii head tracking video. I had no idea anything like that was possible. I don't get why it didn't take off
Because it's a tough sell to put a camera right in front of people's TV. IIRC, the only product managed to do this is Portal TV from Facebook...
I actually tried something like this and talked to lots of potential users about this (during 2020 pandemic). But the willingness to pay for the camera is quite low.
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#9I still remember the first time I saw the Wii head tracking video. I had no idea anything like that was possible. I don't get why it didn't take off
The article describes an important issue. For the effect to look right, you have to close one eye. I suppose if you had a stereoscopic display this would not be an issue
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#10I still remember the first time I saw the Wii head tracking video. I had no idea anything like that was possible. I don't get why it didn't take off
Because it's a tough sell to put a camera right in front of people's TV. IIRC, the only product managed to do this is Portal TV from Facebook... I actually tried something like this and talked to lots of potential users about this (during 2020 pandemic). But the willingness to pay for the camera is quite low.
I remember when the Xbox 360 was announced and the core idea is that you plugged all your media crap into it. Combined with Kinect, it screamed, “we just want to know what you’re doing.”