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Well, that felt like entering a dream on my phone. Fuzzy virtual environments generated by "a mind" based on its memory of real environments...

I wonder if it'd break our brains more if the environment changes as the viewpoint changes, but doesn't change back (e.g. if there's a horse, you pan left, pan back right, and the horse is now a tiger).

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I kept expecting that to happen, but it apparently has some mechanism to persist context outside the user’s FOV.

In a way, that almost makes it more dreamlike, in that you have what feels like high local coherence (just enough not to immediately tip you off that it’s a dream) that de-coheres over time as you move through it.

Fascinatingly strange demo.

Our minds are used to that: dreams

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