Browser Tabs to VR: Creating my Digital Memory Palace
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Okay, so, you know that feeling when you’ve got like a million tabs open and zero idea where anything is? I turned all that into a VR memory palace. Using Unity, I tried to bring joy back to my research - now I can literally walk through it.
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this is actually a brilliant idea, if someone was to create something like this but with like integrated browing (you use some shortcut to actually open the website) and the ability or create a new palette or whatever and a file browser and a notes app/IDE, doesnt even have to be a heavy one you could just inegrate Kate or Lite XL or even Obsidian I would literally pay for that ngl
This! I’ve been thinking the same thing that’s great idea
@@quietqui8816 yeah I tried looking for something like that and only found starcel basically
This is dope! I don't know why RUclips suggested this but I'm glad it did.
I've long thought that VR could be a very compelling spatial information place.
I am personally working on a social version of this kind of thing -- virtual memory palaces are a really cool manifestation of our digital lives!
Keep up the good work man.
This is why Cyberpunk netrunners are in a VR world while interfacing with the net
great project, cant wait to see more!
Such a great concept!
Sweet Mother of God! This is revolutionary. You are literally building your own matrix with all content you gather. But I have a question. How do you categorize everything and how portable it is ?
That's the future, The Infinite Tsukuyomi from naruto but with technology
Nice! I also had an idea like this before, a minecraft-like sandbox world where I could build and store information like a memory palace. Would be nice if we could actually build things and make it more visual instead of a bunch of tabs and book pages laying arround.
Imagine studying Biology for example, you could build an actual Zoo or maybe a garden for Botany, then add mind-maps, book pages, videos or whatever you want.
You could just use your creativity and keep expanding and building stuff as you learn more. AI could also help you do all this without too much effort, imagine just asking for an image or a 3D model of something and it just pops up right in front of you.
I actually used the memory palace a lot studying for college exams. But I usually just created a tower-like building for a subject, and each floor had a certain theme for a topic in this subject. For example, I had a Data Science tower that had a floor full of pandas playing and rolling arround, some were organizing stuff into a table, others were doing math, all of these actions were related to functions from the pandas library in Python.
This specific Data Science exam was almost 3 years ago, and the fact that I still remember most of the floors shows how powerful this technique is. If I had the tower "saved" somewhere and could revisit it, I'm sure I would still have perfect retention for this subject.
Dude great idea
This feels like a 3d manifestation of the Second Brain system and I dig it.
Also, that pile of cards made my brain go "There's a mystery/puzzle game to be created here among a sea of clues and threads of a fictional world"
That actually sounds really cool. I would definitely swap my room with a friend / stranger and say “what do you find interesting in here?”
Gothic spotted in a random comment section?!? alright then
@@kylerjordan9616 is this what movie stars feel like when they're recognised getting groceries?
Fuck, I love it
Please tell me this is actually something that's in the works. I have a VR but honestly I need a reason to use it for work before I am able to use it to play games lol.
Are you literally building a mental palace in Unity?
Edit: just saw you meantion in the video; If I were you and trying to make this actually usefull, I'd make into a minecraft mod (or roblox, since its easier to learn), that way I could not only use the "framework" of a pre-existing game, but also the whole modding scene behind it
Thats really interesting; I am a big fan of minecraft, definitely the closest thing to a metaverse we have right now. Minecraft Mod is an interesting idea - will have to take a look at how difficult it would be to port over the behavior to a mod
@@EJFox thats so funny i had exactly this conversation recently. This scales a lot. Im a developer myself. Maybe @EJFox is interested?
Next time use it like a minority report screen
Like motion-controlled? I have actually never seen Minority Report lol
this idea is fucking brilliant bro
One word for you: Zettelkasten.
this is cool, I shared it with a friend who's more into making this stuff than I am. But I'd love to.
i like the way u think
Thanks for sharing! I think gamefying how we research and work will be huge in the next few decades, also your prototype is super interesting. Congrats in the build 🎉
Thank you for the kind words!
sub'd to hear more brain or thought dumps on this topic :)
Coming from future. No joke. You will be continuing on this and eventually what you will achieve is an ai that's literally you based on what you see everyday. Reads your comments, learns your hobbies, what you have been working on recently.
I don't know how I ended up in this end of RUclips but I think that optimizing my algorithm is now finalized. Tell me more about this project. 🤓
Since you touch on tagging it reminded me of something like tag studio, would be cool if something like that could be used as a backend for such a system.
Yes, I would love to have a physical space to move around and throw things together, then just be able to save that room so I know its just how I left it, but still be able to recall it and walk through it again.
I had a similar idea but never got to working on it T_ T, hope you make something cool!
funny had exactly the same idea floating in my books for a couple of years. This idea expands to many different areas.
I don't get the appeal, but it seems like people like it!
cool, now implement minimap.
Super Cool!
Brilliant, I’m working on something similar in unreal engine, I look forward to seeing more of your creations, amazing work bud
I mean realistically, having a 3d space memory place should become almost impossible to organize because humans usually think in higher dimension, I feel like a personalized AI that only runs locally that gathers your preferences and your values should be more optimal.
Throwing it around instead of organising it is good use of your inteligence man
Sometimes throwing it around IS organizing it
i love this. please make it possible to put the same thing in multiple places
I was actually just thinking about that- my intuition is that there should only be one “original” but maybe there is a mechanism to make copies, and an easy way to find the original? Would love to hear more about how you would use copies
@@EJFox when you put objects in different rooms or just put them in proximity to each other you have a perspective/metric in mind under which those objects fit together. for example the "psychology room" where everything psychology related is stored. but concepts have fuzzy borders and one "thing" can relate to many other concepts. you could have a "writing room" where you put ideas for your stories, but then you want to talk about a topic in the psychology room.
it's the same problem that folders have. one file can only be in one place.
if you make the "original"/"copy" distinction, there will be a problem for the case that you initially thought something should be in room a, make a copy in room b and then you change your ontology and decide that you want to delete the original in room a. it shouldn't matter which one is the original.
also: one screenshot is always a collection of things. maybe you want to talk about the picture in the article and the content. or different paragraphs of the content.
the mind palace in the brain is not a fixed layout with one definite structure but a graph that can be viewed through multiple lenses.