How about VR glasses? Could similar approach help there?
Vehicle Motion Cues
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Re: Vehicle Motion Cues
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The biggest issue Android has both with Kinestop amd this app is unlike Apple's system it does not count for acceleration. I find myself having to look ahead when under acceleration or braking. I have experienced the Apple's motion cues when my friend got curious if it would work because he had no use for it since he did not have motion sickness and I'm unsure if it was just psychological but it felt better than Kine…
When did you try it? I got a bit confused by your comment because there's no obvious reason why the accelerometers in an android phone would have a problem reporting forward/backward acceleration any less accurately than lateral. So I installed it and the 'Dots' mode definitely responds to acceleration normal to the screen, but that mode is marked as 'New' so might not have been present when you last looked.
I had used it in my last bus trip around two months ago. It could be, I'll be testing it out in the future and hope the issues with it get resolves because for me there was no reaction to acceleration.
Re: Vehicle Motion Cues
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried this and it did nothing for me. For a start, the white dots disappear on a white background, so not a good start. The main thing, though, is while it picked up on the vehicle turning it didn't pick up on acceleration much, which is what actually gives me motion sickness.
It's supposed to handle acceleration though, if you bring your phone to your face quickly dots get larger. I've done some in-car testing, but things get squeamish quickly so it's not the easiest to validate. Changing the color / adding some contrast would be quite a simple change
I just tested and it does if I move my phone around violently. It would maybe work in sports car, but not regular driving, which can still make me sick.
Re: Vehicle Motion Cues
#114These are the type of problems that are completely invisible to someone who doesn't experience it. I wouldn't have even known it was a problem to solve. A few years back we played an escape room game online with the whole team. One of the clues was in one of my colleagues "room". All he had to do was read it. "Come one read it man, we can win this." He froze. We all insisted he reads it. He could not read it. We thou…
> He could not see the note we were talking about because he is colorblind. A similar thing happened to a friend who was over for game night. We were playing the Monopoly Deal card game when he put a brown and a red card next to each other with kind of a confused silence. Look at this: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/374991_dc4dfa2a6f0d4ebb81... (Pictured: Three red property cards next to two brown property cards.…
I'm colourblind and I have lots of trouble with red and brown, so your friend has my sympathies.
Though in this particular picture on my particular screen, it's not too bad for me.
I have a lot of problems with Splendor and Set though.
(And the fix in Splendor would have been so easy: give every kind of gem its own fixed space, instead of flushing them all to the edge.)
Re: Vehicle Motion Cues
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Damn, I really didn't expect to get a downvote on this. Anything I said wrong, or someone just disagreeing? I'd think the concept of "brain tweaks can improve color vision" is a good thing.
I think the issue is that color blindness is typically the result of a physical abnormality with the rods/cones in the retina. Your claim is essentially akin to saying a black-and-white printer could somehow print in color. It's a physical impossibility. Whether certain substances could trick the brain into believing it can see colors is another story altogether. That said, there are forms of color blindness that are…
Oh, once you eat enough magic mushrooms, you'll probably see colours from your black and white printer.
(I'm colour-blind.)
Re: Vehicle Motion Cues
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems pretty straightforward. 1. Be a developer and you (or a spouse/child/friend) get motion sickness when looking at the phone while travelling. 2. We’ve known the mechanisms of motion sickness (looking at something static while your inner ear indicates you’re moving) from before smartphones were a thing. 3. We already have a ton of information on the phone to know when we’re in a vehicle, how fast we’re moving, di…
And this is exactly how things in large corporations don't happen. Things in large corporations who pay so well that nobody makes it through the recruitment filters and competition who's more than 2% off from being a pure assessment metrics maximiser. In my mind, chasing an idea like this just does not match the type. Why it isn't likely to have happened before: trying is only easy for a developer who is not only ver…
> And this is exactly how things in large corporations don't happen. Things in large corporations who pay so well that nobody makes it through the recruitment filters and competition who's more than 2% off from being a pure assessment metrics maximiser. In my mind, chasing an idea like this just does not match the type.
What's your evidence for any of this?
I worked for Google and a lot of other large companies, and recruitment does not work like this at all.
If you want to blame the big companies, you should maybe say that people don't get time to chase these things. Google's 20% time was famously nicknamed 120% time, after all. (The joke being that you can get your 20% time, if you put it on top of your 100% working hours.)
Re: Vehicle Motion Cues
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> I don't know why they don't suggest it to folks when car or train movement is detected Apple whole idea to UX seems to be "Mostly hidden by default, let people trigger it accidentally to learn about it, or reading about it somewhere else" as even after having my iPhone 12 Mini for so long, I still "discover" new things every now and then that nothing or no one told me about. Like how are people supposed to "discove…
Younger me used to "explore" the OS or any software by clicking all the things. It was part of growing and learning. I was never afraid to click the wrong thing. It's similar to those that take things apart just to see what's inside. I had no idea that I was the edge case of personality types. Things that are "hidden" are just discoveries waiting to happen for those that look. For those that need their hands held and…
I disagree. Things that are hidden are not meant to be discovered and utilized by everyday users.
When I write software or apps and there is a feature that I want users to utilize I do not gate it behind the rare chance that a user will activate it by shaking their device or rotating it 360 degrees or something else obtuse that nobody ever does.
I grew up with custom android ROMs with all the customization I could want and now live in an age where I can take just about any software and use an LLM to customize it to meet my needs, I use Tasker and have scripts out the woohaa on my Linux desktop. I hate it when companies add "hidden" features and don't tell you anywhere.