Folk Computer
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Folk Computer
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Re: Folk Computer
#2What is this?
Re: Folk Computer
#3What is this?
https://folk.computer/notes/tableshots
This page gives more explanation than the landing page does I think
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#4What is this?
I think a better overview is under the "Towards a folk computer" link on the main page (perhaps the submission link should be changed?). Essentially (if I understand correctly) they want to let you control computer by moving things in the physical world: mainly items on a real tabletop. Sort of anti-virtual reality, in a way!
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#5What is this?
I think a better overview is under the "Towards a folk computer" link on the main page (perhaps the submission link should be changed?). Essentially (if I understand correctly) they want to let you control computer by moving things in the physical world: mainly items on a real tabletop. Sort of anti-virtual reality, in a way!
Tangible Computing :D
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think a better overview is under the "Towards a folk computer" link on the main page (perhaps the submission link should be changed?). Essentially (if I understand correctly) they want to let you control computer by moving things in the physical world: mainly items on a real tabletop. Sort of anti-virtual reality, in a way!
Tangible Computing :D
Someone get Tim on the line to look into this.
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#7The button is pretty amusing, but The rest of the site does a better job of motivating it.
I've taught a few kids a little bit of programming with things like scratch, but I think this would be infinitely more fun. I could imagine a group of kids who don't think programming is for them having a blast with something like this.
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#8Both seem to have worked at/with Dynamicland previously, though not mentioned on this site.
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#9What is this?
I think a better overview is under the "Towards a folk computer" link on the main page (perhaps the submission link should be changed?). Essentially (if I understand correctly) they want to let you control computer by moving things in the physical world: mainly items on a real tabletop. Sort of anti-virtual reality, in a way!
Not to sound dismissive, because this is cool, but this pretty solidly AR, just instead of a headset you're using a projector. I don't think it'd be too difficult to port this to vr headset of choice
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#10Both seem to have worked at/with Dynamicland previously, though not mentioned on this site. https://omar.website/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/ https://cwervo.com/projects/dynamicland-experiments/
I was gonna say, this sounds a lot like continuing the research of Dynamicland, which itself contained research from CDA, VPRI, and other groups. Why is it so hard to find a consistent funder of basic research like PARC in the 70s?