It feels like whether or not it's possible to make a model of new york misses the point. This kind of project could just as easily scale up to be an isometric map of the entire world, every city, every forest, every mountain hut, and update continuously as new buildings are built and cities grow. Expensive yes, for now- but the speed and scale to make and maintain such representations will absolutely be outside the realm of what was previously possible. Not just maps of the world, maps of human knowledge, history, to such detail that would entail not just tens of thousands of hours but billions or trillions of hours if done by hand.
These videos I feel were the first to really give a glimpse into the weird and surreal future we're heading into.
The whole Balenciaga shtick felt like a metaphor for the rising tide of machine-generated content— and I tried to weave this narrative through the quotes of this computer history version, "the balenciaga revolution is far more important..." yada yada, while ostensibly about the history of computing, it is moreso intended to let us ponder its future.
I mean, fair. My first impression of the harry potter one was that it was some high-budget ad, but it's just some guy making weird mashups and exploring what's possible with AI. The balenciaga one just stuck because it was a perfect collision of familiar (harry potter) and uncanny (luxury fashion).
It might be the cynic in me talking, but I doubt this wave of Balenciaga ads is just the outcome of a random guy overusing a set of parameters. It would be trivial to find any other theme to exploit, but this is too focused on a single brand and relentlessly pushing it's name. It's guerilla marketing no matter of where you look at it.
Do you have any proof? Everything about it seems like it's a naturally-occurring meme. Nobody pushed it until it went viral 2 weeks after the original video, and the channel has clear history of many different experiments that didn't go viral.
I have also seen Versace and Gucci versions, maybe some others I don't recall. I think they chose Balenciaga because the name itself feels kind of unusual and it fits the wizarding theme.
That being said, if it's an actual marketing campaign, then it's been quite successful at least in my case, as I never even knew Balenciaga existed before seeing these vids... Then I took a look at what they actually sell and promptly concluded I would never buy from them, even if I had the money lol.
There‘s no marketing conspiracy behind this. The Balenciaga meme is an homage to a quote from the first scene in the movie „Triangle of Sadness“. This scene contrasts H&M‘s commercial appeal with Balenciaga‘s contempt for the consumer. The meme even paraphrase the dialog from the movie.
This seems like "organic" marketing in the sense that an individual is parodying a brand but as a consequence giving the brand lots of exposure. This is no more guerrilla marketing than if a food reviewer gave exposure to McDonalds.
From what I've read about it, one of the exciting things about QUIC and HTTP/3 is that they're much more extensible. Meaning anyone might be able to dabble and experiment with their own version of the protocol.
So yes, I'd think the rate of progress may well increase. Not all will become standards, but I imagine we might see HTTP/3.1, 3.2, etc. long before we see an entirely new version like HTTP/4
As someone who has developed similarly playful online spaces with spatial audio I am pleasantly surprised with Skittish. They really "get it" when it comes to essence of digital places in a way that virtually no other apps in the space seem to understand
Glad they exist, and I hope they may inspire people to build more creative, fun, and playful spaces for themselves and their friends :)
I've never had strong visual imagery, but recently I've been practicing visualizing mental images as well as attempting (and failing) to overlay those images over my vision.
Whenever I do visualize images, they feel as if they are positioned behind just my forehead or at the top of my head. Sometimes I imagine this as a sort of "canvas" on which I can imagine or draw images. With your example of visualizing a ball, the ball and my hand can be on the same "layer" on this canvas, but do not affect my vision at all.
What I find interesting is that I can actually move this canvas around spatially or create new ones. On each canvas for example, I can imagine a different rotating object. As well, each canvas retains its image as a form of short-term memory. So I can switch focus between different imagined images or compositions.
I'm curious - with more practice - how mental imagery can aid in memory. Recently I learned a song in a language I do not understand, and the words of the song would appear on my mind's "canvas" almost like karaoke or like reading off imaginary flashcards...
It's always interesting to read about how other people's experiences are similar or different to my own. The minds eye is endlessly interesting.
That would be very interesting, reminds me of an demo a couple years back of sketching buildings and and immediately being translated using procedural shape grammars into 3d.
