F.A.Q.
When is the game coming out?
As soon as possible, we are very far along but haven't announced a release date yet.
I tink 4D toys allows you to view 4D and 3D objects on a 2D plane. It makes me wonder how much we can really perceive a 4D world in a 3D world on a 2D surface (screen). A 3D hammer could be appreciated in 2D, but could a 3D philips screwdriver? I am not so sure.
I remember reading something along the lines that human perception is extremely biased by the architecture we live within. Our edge detection gets much worse when it doesn’t follow similar lines of a room. Suggesting other cultures that live outside could perceive certain “illusions” that aren’t illusions at all. If that makes sense…
But can I work the other way? Can we ever have a true understanding of 4D?
I am not sure our edge detection gets worse in werid architecture. I visited a large scale surreal 3D art installation and had no problems with edge detection even if the scale of objects was designed to mess with my senses.
Peter Watts’ universe features vampires that get grand mal brain seizures when they perceive crosses (that is, intersecting lines at roughly right angles). The idea is that large right angles very rarely occur in nature, so vampires were able to flourish in antiquity, but as human architecture began wrapping civilization in boxes with walls, windows, roofs, etc, vampires would naturally stay away from cities and population centers, explaining their rarity.
In the story of course, humans developed drugs that inhibit that part of the vampiric visual cortex so we could subjugate them for study and free labor, but vampires are quite smart, so things predictably go off the rails…
“Echopraxia” by Peter Watts draws this idea further if you’re curious.