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In the late '80s I created version of Augment [1]. Takeaway was a hierarchical menu that saved all of your places. So a menu of average of 7 choices, which went 7 layers deep, would address 7^7 end points, or about 823,543 items. The number of auto-bookmarks would be 7^6 (117,649). Because the bookmarks would save your place, the average number of gestures to reach any item is about half that, or 3.5 clicks.

Am now playing with that idea for a Heads up Display for AR glasses, using SwiftUI [2]

The first use case is to port a visual synth, I created in the early Naughts, which used a static template on a Wacom Tablet[3]. The interface controlled > 2000 parameters.

The question is: how to control thousands of real-time parameters with virtual touch?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31676445#31677125

[2] https://github.com/musesum/DeepMenu

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXlkzZubHnM




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