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Nice project! Was actually hoping for something a little different; I've thought about having 4k streams with (local) ambient audio from around the world for use as virtual "windows". Just hang a 4k tv on a wall, and play a location/timezone that suits your mood... (Perhaps with a 24h buffer, so that one could match relative sun height/light to local time if one wants to...).

Would be interesting to see an accompanying technical write-up (choice of technologies, frameworks, rationale -- what was easy, what was hard etc).

Nice use-case for soundcloud, btw.

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You and I are on the same page, I love your idea too. This is my very first project, I'm entirely new to coding, but hopefully eventually I can extend Hyperlax to what you're talking about. Appreciate you checking it out!

Neat project!

Last christmas in SF I wanted to create a "winter vibe" as we were celebrating with the family, and I was looking for videos showing cozy snowfall and winter landscapes. It was surprisingly hard to find something really good. I think it'd be cool if you could select what kind of "window" you want and had a few presets like "Tropical", "Winter landscape", etc.

I personally found the mix of soothing slow music and hyper lapse videos to not be relaxing, I think I'd prefer if the videos were running at normal speed or maybe even in slow motion depending on the video.

Awesome job! Very impressive for a first project

Very impressive for a first project. I've been writing code for 20 years and haven't ever made anything this cool :D You're inspiring me!

Nice job! I just created a video review of your project and the one you were inspired by, here. It was a great first project for me to review for the very first episode of my new site. Thanks!

http://ratemyapp.com/video/6K_HgG_Xmf8/walkthrough-two-new-a...

http://expedia.com/pictures/ -- choose a location, start the music player and press the Slideshow button :)

I'm in the process of rebuilding it, it's a prototype that ended up in production and I was tasked with rebuilding it on a modern stack; the new version is a fully isomorphic React and Flux (Flummox) application.

Working on it has been great, though it's definitely fired up my imagination and made me want to plan a holiday! We have the slideshow running on a 60" LCD all day at work :)

That's nice, but not what I had in mind. I was thinking a live 4k video stream with local audio -- so an "actual" digital window.

Slideshows and stills are nice -- but they serve a different purpose. Think of it as a different kind of augmented reality -- putting a "real" window in your windowless office etc.

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