spatial memory is an underappreciated mechanism of our brains, and was one of the founding concepts of MacOS (that you could spatially remember where files are)
For me it’s about positioning data in a visually unique space, so when I’m browsing my file system trying to remember where I saved something, I’ll have the visual cues of form and pattern to help.
I don’t have an updated preview but I describe my reasoning more in a blog with screenshots of a year old 2D prototype.
I’d be very curious to know where your project is at, eventually I’m going to have to port this to Unity so it works outside of web browsers, but I really want to keep the cross-device compatibility, so I’m working on a data storage layer that can serve both (you guessed it, everything is in JSON)
That's awesome! VR has lots of potential but i'm not (and it's not) there yet. Your project sounds really novel. I've equated mine to a 3D database because you can do inner/outer joins, search, filter, and materialize "views" in 3D space.
I'm nearing a demo stage, been at this for a few years - but wow will i need to revisit my code before I expand on future development - it's a lot of code to sling and compared to my day job doing web dev in MVC, leaves a lot to be desired architecturally.
Great job on blogging about your project - i need to get better about that.
Additionally, I think having this sharable and on the web opens a lot of possibilities. I hope you keep working on it.
But man, that color change on your blog really messed with me. I have F.lux installed which adds warmth to whites to help with getting to sleep at night or as daylight changes and your site is like a rapid version of that. I'd prefer either not that at all, or at least scroll position based.