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Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery

56 points by stagas 6 hours ago | 16 comments

lukan 5 hours ago

I .. don't get it. (And don't want to sign up to find out) What am I looking at? People raving online? (Or letting their avatars do it) But there are real people mixed in, so those are the real DJ's?

alfanick 4 hours ago

It's ('is/was) amazing! On launch date I've spent good couple of hours there. The execution is magnificent. Realtime rave in minecraft-like world. Somehow this needs business model to keep it actually alive and well.

stagas 4 hours ago

We are selling T-shirts if you saw and there is a donation pill bottom right :)

lukan 4 hours ago

Ok, trying it out now from my PC. Nice, one can even go into second dancefloors, in a tent (with youtube that I can influence) but there movement could be polished. But I like the idea.

rzzzt 5 hours ago

Here's the Show HN post for it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304260

stagas 5 hours ago

It's a VR world recreation of a rave party. There is no signup, just a nickname.

hackingonempty 3 hours ago

I've tried this a couple of times but it doesn't work for me, probably because I'm not willing to let Google follow me everywhere on the web. It looks like YouTube is required for music and won't start without it.

Instead of using giant Opus files that require you to rely on Google to make your site affordably hosted, how about using the "tracker" technology of yore? It let folks enjoy downloaded electronic music back in the dialup era. Formats include MOD, XM, IT and S3M and there are a bunch of semi-abandoned JS implementations.

stagas 3 hours ago

Why not? It is open-source[0] so this can be added by anyone interested in this.

But IMO a major component of the experience is seeing a DJ playing on the stage, which is why all of the videos are from HÖR Berlin[1] where this is their format.

[0]: https://github.com/stagas/hallucinate

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@hoer.berlin https://hoer.live/

ArekDymalski 3 hours ago

> how about using the "tracker" technology of yore?

now that would be a party I'd join to rock to some Dune/Orange or Purple Motion/FC tunes :)

mangelovski 4 hours ago

Nice dance moves :) For some reason took me back to some of the underground berlin raves I visited when I lived there . . . I miss those days

stagas 4 hours ago

It's inspired by Berlin spaces and raves yeah! The music is also from HÖR Berlin.

smrtinsert 28 minutes ago

This might be greatest thing ever, especially if you have any experience with that culture.

thomasfromcdnjs 4 hours ago

Hats off, really well built.

alpineman 5 hours ago

Who needs Berghain, the loading bar is much shorter and with less uncertainty at the end (a bit when it gets stuck at 93% briefly though :D)

stagas 4 hours ago

And photos allowed! :)

hmokiguess 6 hours ago

this is amazing

veiledge 5 hours ago

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