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Alright someone has to be the skeptic: there's no fucking god damned way this works as well as the video suggests. There has to be enormous amounts of behind-the-scenes work to support this thing; the idea that it's self-hosting all in one room is an absolutely extraordinary claim. It's a big red flag that they only invite specific people who are good "culture fits", and don't have any public code. They can't risk people seeing the puppet wires.

It's some Wizard of Oz / Potemkin village / confidence trick. That's why nothing has been released after a decade -- there's nothing to release. It's vapor, this generation's Xanadu.




They ran an open space for a few years. The things being done aren't that wild. You have cameras tracking fiducials, running an associated script every frame that can either just be text or can pull from the computer to act on things not explicitly on a page in a frame. None of that is conceptually that wild or heavy and people have made versions of this that you can actually see the source of. PaperPrograms is one and Folk Computer is another.




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