Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr2/ Or for yoga poses or proper form for strength trainingQuote TweetVenkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @chenoehart@chenoehart yes! Ikea needs these online. Also great for yoga poses, correct form for free weight lifts...bottleneck is animation artwork16
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr3/ Dig deeper, and you realize the animated gif is actually a refactored pause button218
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr4/ Time is linear and smooth paced (1s/s). Pause/resume makes it choppy, but freeze-frame is not really what we want14
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr5/ Think how you actually consume video that's faster than you can process. You rewind/play repeatedly, rather than pausing27
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr6/ This picture illustrates a-gif time. It's loopy time.113
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr7/ This suggests a novel type of video player. Set "loop base" points and intervals on a regular video. Player loops there by default328
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr8/ This would generalize the principle of animated gifs to a new kind of non-sequential playback video idea.115
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr9/ You could go beyond single-point-anchored loops and create all sorts of gnarly topologies on a basic linear time stream14
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr10/ As interactivity in video gets more important, this could be the future. Also applicable to audio (loop clips for important bits).16
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr11/ With audio too, we notice it already exists as a hack (rewind/replay, DJ stuff). Lesson: consumers make good use of sequence control26
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @vgr12/ I bet there's a billion $ YouTube like business waiting for whoever rethinks the whole << < || [] > >> time control UI. It's too simple6:57 PM · Jan 1, 20163 Retweets19 Likes
Kevin Marks kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks@kevinmarks·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr you mean bringing back chapter lists? I'm in. But ad supported media hates the idea.11
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @kevinmarks@kevinmarks No no.... that would be a big step backwards IMO. This would be dynamic playback control via hidden set of anchors11
shashashasha@mastodon.publicinterest.town@shashashasha·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr Traktor's been doing interesting UI work by always auto beatmatching / snapping to beat13
Nikhil Sonnad@nkl·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @shashashasha@shashashasha @vgr See @lenagroeger on the explanatory power of loops https://propublica.org/nerds/item/on-repeat-how-to-use-loops-to-explain-anything…247
Boris Mann@bmann·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr we’ve been thinking about this for 360 video & VR. Time & space, branching POV, etc. means new interfaces needed.2
Balázs Kégl@balazskegl·Jan 1, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr I often want to comment and link a video at a given time.1