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Re:Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited a... by jayd16 on Monday April 12, 2021 @08:32PM (#26786849)
You're not going to be able to encode that much data on a little stamp. Its way more reliable to use a WebVR link.
Re:Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited a... by Robotbeat on Monday April 12, 2021 @08:51PM (#26786990)
3 kilobytes (what you can store on a little fiducial QR code stamp) is a pretty large amount of data. But you don't need that much. If you just encode a 64bit identifier plus 48 bits of data encoding a bounding box in half-precision floating point for a total of 112 bits (14 bytes). Or maybe 1 byte of precision in each dimension and about 100 points defining the shape for a total of 300 bytes (and another 8 for identification).

You really can store plenty of info in a fiducial. And you can use multiple fiducials to store more if you like. This is still a pretty rich vein to mine.

Re:Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited a... by jayd16 on Monday April 12, 2021 @11:01PM (#26787704)
I haven't seen any formats that give you that much space in a reliable way, but even then, you won't get any texture mapping, normal mapping, animation, etc etc. Why bother when you can reliably store a link and have anything you want?
Re:Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited a... by fapjacks on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:50AM (#26790512)
Links have implied costs far greater than a few KB.