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Posted by smoser 18 hours ago

Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions(www.orbify.eu)
468 points | 152 commentspage 4
dengsauve 13 hours ago|
The top down view of upcoming traffic complications ahead of a forward angled view of your surroundings seems incredibly practical to me.

I'm fortunate to not suffer motion sickness in general, but I showed this to my wife for 5 seconds and she was feeling motion sick.

Personally, I love it. It's fun, and I look forward to using it one day in lieu of exclusively top down or forward angled alone nav tools.

hexator 16 hours ago||
A variant of this but taking place on an O'Neill Cylinder would be amazing. I've always been captivated by the idea of the horizon curving up in front of you.
grep_name 13 hours ago||
I almost immediately click-dragged into a nearby building by accident, and am fascinated by how this engine attempts to extrapolate the inside of the building using only information about the outside. It's kind of surreal, and slightly more convincing than it feels like it should be at times
Fraterkes 15 hours ago||
Folded cities being primarily associated with Inception instead of ringworlds really shows you pr is everything.
Krasnol 9 hours ago|
It shows PR is mind rape.
recursive 14 hours ago||
In the demo, the "Destination" and "Point of Interest" seem to be floating around randomly. I'd expect them to point out the things they're labeling, but their movement seems to bear little correlation to anything.
SubiculumCode 14 hours ago||
let's give drivers motion sickness isnt a good strategy, just my opinion.
overtone1000 12 hours ago|
I also experienced vertigo, but I'm particularly prone to vertigo induced by 3D scenes. Still, I think this is the first time a screen as small as my phone did it.
prometheus1992 16 hours ago||
Nice work! This sort of reminds me of a game I saw demo'd on HN about a year ago, where you could walk and talk to the people and do some tasks- the difference being - in that game the world felt like a convex sphere and here it is concave.
SkepticalWhale 17 hours ago||
Very cool. This would actually save me from those terrible times when the navigation tells me to turn, but not which lane is best for the next turn after that. Now I could visualize it clearly.

That being said, it is a little dizzying to watch.

NDlurker 16 hours ago||
At first I thought this was a cool gimmick, but this seems like it would be really helpful. You get to see the angle of the curve from the driver's perspective and the overhead view at the same time!
Hypergraphe 16 hours ago|
I think it could be useful in really dense exchange hubs when you don't clearly see which lane you have to take.
nelox 5 hours ago|
Thanks for the Vertigo Rollercoaster
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