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Re: Alive

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Doesnt work with Firefox: Uncaught TypeError: pointerContainer is null

I think it's just overloaded right now; I used it successfully with Firefox before.

Yeah, it's not working in any browser for me at the moment.

Re: Alive

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For people who can't see this due to hug-of-death problems, it appears to be an art project in Japan where all current site visitors control real mouse pointers made of light, projected into a physical space, with streaming video. That is, you move your mouse pointer around over the video, and instead of rendering it on your screen, it gets rendered physically, with light, in a specific room in Japan. You and all oth…

It's pretty awesome indeed! I see glimpses of what AR can be in this project.

The artist is Yuta Sasaki and this link goes more detail into this cool project: https://sasaki-sasaki.com/info/en/alive_en/

Can't believe this made the front page. Hopefully it gets back on soon.

Re: Alive

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Infuriating that they decide I shouldn't be allowed to view the page on my phone, even when I switch to desktop view. My power's out and I'm not going to hunt down and tether a laptop. Guess I don't care about whatever this user-hostile site is.

Web devs: don't do this.

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