Speaking of founding Lindens, Second Life co-founder Cory Ondrejka, who quit his position as VP of Engineering position at Facebook at the end of 2014, has a new stealth startup called Overlook Research:
building better mousetraps since 2015
We are hiring designers and js developers.
If you think the second mouse gets the cheese, send a resume or portfolio link to [email protected]
That's all the site will reveal, and Cory himself is mum. But if you're a designer or dev looking for what's certain to be a cool gig, go here to consider applying.
Question is, what's the better mousetrap in this case?
Of course the obvious possibility is a virtual world, with Cory backing and advising the ambitious but now-defunct Cloud Party, or virtual reality, with Cory instrumental in getting Facebook to acquire Oculus. But who knows as yet?
Well, my guess is that it is simply a mouse. A really nice desktop mouse. Why? If the first mouse killed, then the next gets the cheese because this mouse will be a really expensice luxurious mouse for desktop cone-sour...oh no, spellcheck.fail :(
Maybe it is not a standard style mouse, maybe it can be lifted up and used for VR. Even without a headset on you can use it as an advanced pointing device.
Maybe a software mouse thing used on touchscreens! I wanted this while trying to draw on my tiny cell phone. It puts a pointer on your phones screen IN FRONT of your finger and you have buttons on the screen you can press with your other fingers. Ghostmouse, it would be translucent looking and sort of a ghost of the mouse that died because of touch pad converversion. He is back, and see through like and all clicky sounding. Precision of the mouse, no hardware to carry. Yeah, I know. I am a genius. MS should be all over this. In fact, logic dictates this tech should take over for most graphics based apps on phones and tablets. I can imagine wacom will make a stylus that is similar to their other tech for the cintique and for the mouse, yup the logic choice of tech is the ghostmouse as it is so genius born solution.
Maybe I should send these guys my ideas to research, I decalre it public domain. No UI patents, though I can't be bothered to draw any for you guys...but yeah, I'm not patenting the idea so have at it.
Posted by: namesgointhisbox | Friday, July 01, 2016 at 05:44 PM
http://mori.com is real web site and from looking at the source, it appears to be an ebook reader of some kind.
Posted by: Simon Edwell | Friday, September 30, 2016 at 01:10 PM