• dhork@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I see your confusion. The ad copy gives you the impression that it is selling the display, but what I really want is that amazing AI-enabled hover-mouse that doesn’t need to be on a table to be used.

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    The marketing is “get them to stare at our ad for more than 2 seconds, and maybe get some people to post it around for free as ‘content’.” Looks like it worked perfectly.

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 years ago

    What’s so confusing? Is it the hand holding the laptop, the foot holding up the monitor, the face down cupboard? I’m sure there’s more.

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    2 years ago

    It’s actually a good ad, though I question the setting for a young woman. She is so immersed by the display, the room she is in has faded away and become whatever game she is playing. That’s why there is no computer desk.

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      I agree. It’s clever, given the theme of escapism - at a glance it’s a pic of someone using a monitor, but the more you look, the more things are weird or uncanny. And yet she is so engrossed, she doesn’t know (or care).

      Took me a while to spot that the outside is rotated 90 degrees!

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      2 years ago

      The “desk” appears to be random limbs of other humans. Also, it looks like her game then is somehow taking place in a kitchen that’s on its side?

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    Said like somebody who doesn’t know that using two keyboards allows you to hack twice as fast. Same logic here.

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      What that gotta do with someone’s foot holding up the monitor and clouds on the ground though?? 🤔

    • SacralPlexus@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I don’t think that’s true at all.

      I realize the geometry predicts some optimal spot for viewing the curve but that just is a mathematical ideal not a real world necessity. If it was then everyone who has ever watched a flat screen would be like “omg I feel like I’m too close because I’m not watching from infinity.” I have a 35” monitor with 1800R and it is very pleasant in a normal desktop setting. I looked into 1000R screens since I like to sit fairly close and the curve felt so extreme that it was a major distraction no matter which distance I sat at.

      I guess I’m saying that the curvature is very much a personal preference thing and if people can tolerate a flat screen they can also tolerate a curve that isn’t meeting some mathematical ideal.

  • JoShmoe@ani.social
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    2 years ago

    Your computer has been infected by a pornographic virus. You have 25 seconds to close all 517 popups using the office’s deadliest mouse.