I did a similar thing when I was in the market for a new house. It was ugly and very hackish, used as many of the built-in filtering features of the sites I was scraping, but did a lot more filtering in post processing. It really bugs me how so many real estate websites don't let you filter on arbitrary fields. Faceted search has been a solved problem for 20 years ...
You don’t need to fully fool the vestibular system. This could be installed in a large room and move users slowly back to center as they approach the edge
I tried out an experience last night called "SandboxVR" which would be the perfect customer for such a system - you walk into a room equipped with motion-tracker cameras, the staff straps you into VR gear, then you play an immersive video game with your friends. The games are designed so you don't need to move around much, because a flashing red grid appears in your vision if you get too close to the walls; with a moving floor, they could give you a lot more freedom to explore.
B'elanna Torres (and many other characters, mostly Klingon) are notorious for disabling the holodeck safety protocols, because the experience is not "real enough" unless one can actually get hurt:
I think this is the correct direction for AR/XR development (and why I'm a fan of AR as a concept, but not necessarily of VR): rather than trying to imitate a real experience as closely as possible (and then inevitably nose-diving into the uncanny valley), work with the medium and its inherent limitations and just let it be its own thing. We might discover applications we wouldn't dream of, just like the EMH from Voyager eventually rediscovers himself as a real person.
I think this is the most likely outcome. Then you get unlimited walking distance and no vestibular drama (or light vestibular drama).
I wonder if it makes you puke if you don't quite move as far as you expected... like each step counts for 3/4ths of a step or something... and then you imperceptibly move backward.
I don't think the size of the room matters much. The speed of the floor is determined by the speed of the person walking, otherwise they'll reach the edge of the floor and fall off eventually.
Maybe you could make the speed of the floor slower as long as the person stays in the middle, but as they reach the edge, it increases to keep them on it? I imagine it would feel strange to have a varying floor speed like that though.
An alternative to using GPT could be NLP Clustering.
If you clustered hierarchically, you could even make groups within groups (idk if chrome supports that, but there’s extensions like Tree-Style Tab in Firefox that do)
Beautiful answer. Beyond programming, our society is incredibly overstimulated. TikTok - and now YouTube reels, instagram, etc - are moving towards short form, algorithmically delivered content that gives you a quick dopamine hit for just swiping, and I think it’s killing our collective attention spans. I wonder if there will every be a movement to move away from such platforms, but for now everyone seems always wired in.
There are lots of movements to get away from such platforms, but are underground for the most part. Places like /r/digitalminamalism on reddit. The majority of people are not interested enough and do not have enough self awareness or personal motivations to get away from it.
It's like trying to change the way the world works due to climate change. There's a massive amount of inertia and resistance to make the changes required for a better future.
I think the problem is continually compounded by the shorter and shorter attention spans that also allow the bigger and bigger longer term problems to be unaddressed.
It’s been useful for finding new places for myself and my friends - we can usually get tours before the properties are posted on Zillow.
Though definitely against a few privacy policies