Comment by fpgaminer | Hacker News Reader

Comment by fpgaminer | Hacker News Reader

This is obviously a comically idiotic idea, but ... hmm ...

If someone had taken this and put it in a museum as an art installation, I would love it. Thinking about it like that ... it tickles something in my brain. Using those absolutely huge, gorgeous screens, using our most sophisticated technology ... just to display a flat, bland, skeuomorphic representation of a completely mundane part of the human experience: the convenience store fridge section. I dunno, I'm finding it hard to describe what I feel thinking about this as a piece of "art". It would definitely make quite the statement. The size and scale of it is what takes it to another level.

But yeah, instead this is reality...

There is an art installation in Las Vegas[0] which is basically a grocery store from an alternate, mildly dystopian, dimension. This would fit in perfectly there.

0: https://www.travelandleisure.com/culture-design/visual-arts/...

You're right, I could see them panning to these doors in their video, and the irony would be obvious. But like gp said, instead, this is reality

That place looks amazing, thanks for the link.

I've seen the "unsettling supermarket" concept last year in a museum in Tallinn, Estonia. It's a shelf where most but not all products have the wrong brand. Coca-cola soap, Tampax cookies, Snickers canned fish, Evian ketchup and so on. I thought it was a really neat idea to make me think about the huge simplification of "brand" and what is really happening behind and around a product.

Not just showing something mundane, but actually showing what is behind the screen!

It’s like connecting VR goggles to a front facing camera, so you can watch what you would see if you took of the headset.

As art, I’m kinda digging it too.

I want VR goggles which block the ads and replace them by art.

These will be everywhere in a few years so not idiotic just downright evil.

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