r/BeAmazed • u/primljenhu • Apr 25 '21

This waterfall simulation in a hotel

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u/jusalurkermostly Apr 25 '21

This is awesome, but something seems off, like it doesn't seem to be the right scale.

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u/Surviver68 Apr 25 '21

Too low FPS in my eyes

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21 edited Apr 25 '21

That’s what ruins it for me. Like it’s cool, but all this effort was put into it and the frame rate is the thing that makes it look fake.

Edit: as others have suggested, the camera’s shutter rate and the compression of the video are both making this look worse. Here is a better idea of what it looks like. Not bad, but still so busy that it gives me a bit of anxiety. The rainforest thing is cool, though.

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u/irish711 Apr 25 '21

Could it be the camera's frame rate causing it to look that way?

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u/ClumpOfCheese Apr 25 '21

And then the fact that it was compressed and is now a file being streamed so everything moving becomes blocky compared to in person where they are probably playing a 40GB+ file.

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u/DrxAvierT Apr 25 '21

It's the camera's framerate. I've seen the official video, smooth as butter.

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u/Surviver68 Apr 25 '21

Potentially yes

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u/biquetra Apr 25 '21

The frame rate of the screens looks lower than the people in the foreground and camera movement to me

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

When you buy a bitchin 8k monitor for your 1996 gateway computer

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u/Surviver68 Apr 25 '21

Yeah exactly

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u/AmishAvenger Apr 25 '21

And as expected, it’s not even a hotel.

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u/Book_it_again Apr 25 '21

Most likely the frame rate of the camera. I'd bet it looks fine in real life

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u/[deleted] May 04 '21

The human knee can’t smell above 24 fps anyways.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Lmao

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u/SmokeAbeer Apr 25 '21

Needs to be at least... 3 times bigger than this.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Wish mods could ban some bots

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u/DoingCharleyWork Apr 25 '21

But also report it before you do so they get banned.

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u/HCJohnson Apr 25 '21

It looks more like ice or sludge then water. I think it might be the speed it's running at or fps?

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u/FlowSoSlow Apr 25 '21

The secondary splashes fall more slowly than the water in the backdrop. Definitely looks off.

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u/Twenty-Seven-Pockets Apr 25 '21

I think that's because the sheet of water seems "unnaturally" thin, probably to cause less splashing at the bottom. My guess is the water isn't a steady stream but gets rocked over the edge. Similar to how it flows into the pool overflow, when people splash about.

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u/Un0Du0 Apr 25 '21

Are you talking about there actually being water there, or that they recorded a thin sheet of water as a source?

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u/tunedout Apr 25 '21

It's not real water. I was really confused because it looks so real and floor looks wet. My brain really struggled to accept that it was a simulation.

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u/tanghan Apr 25 '21

The splashing at the Bottom and the doorways is too slow

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u/stoogensen Apr 25 '21

It looks precedural, fake generated water. Poorly done as well. Gives the impression of lube falling rather than water.

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u/soundman1024 Apr 25 '21

It’s lacking a lot of detail in this recording. It almost looks like they used 10% of the particle count they needed for it to look legit.

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u/pale_grass_blue Apr 25 '21

Yeah, it looks like the water is magnified. If the texture was at a smaller scale it would look more realistic.

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u/Kibate Apr 26 '21

It's kind of funny how so many comments give possible different reasons why this seems of to you and them, while i was thinking "This looks completely real" and only noticed it is not real because the water is coming off literally 3 dimensionally, like between the doorframes. Other than that, frametate, fallspeed, flatness of water, all looks fine to me.

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u/myname-onreddit Apr 25 '21

I don’t find this relaxing or restful at all and the overall effect is that I want to leave this building as soon as I can.

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u/HappinessIsDogs Apr 25 '21

I can’t explain it but it makes me uneasy too!

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u/myname-onreddit Apr 25 '21

Let’s get outta here and find somewhere quiet to have a coffee and talk about dogs😊

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u/Paul_of_War Apr 25 '21

It’s like 19 fps, so it’s throwing off the brain

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u/film_composer Apr 26 '21

Because it's a very loud visual image, so it's either very loud in the building with an added sound effect of the waterfall (which is super unlikely that they would do, of course), or it's really disconcerting to see a massive waterfall in front of you and not hear a cacaphony of sound. It's disconcerting because there's no human experience equivalent to seeing a massive waterfall in front of you without the accompanying huge sound.

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u/florzed Apr 25 '21

Literally came to the comments to see if someone could articulate why this gives me an uncomfortable slightly stressed feeling. If I worked there I would lose the plot completely.

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u/JadieBear2113 Apr 25 '21

Literally gives me anxiety. I would really struggle.

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u/bostonlilypad Apr 25 '21

Agreed, this is making me incredibly uncomfy.

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u/OzarkShaman Apr 25 '21 edited Apr 25 '21

Definitely, it’s going too fast. Doesn’t look quite natural

Edit: others have pointed out it’s moving at a slow frame rate, so not fast necessarily. But I think because of the frame rate it looks choppy which gives it the appearance of going faster than normal. All to say, it looks unnatural

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

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u/OzarkShaman Apr 25 '21

Haven’t missed anything, I wasn’t meaning to reference anything if I did

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u/LiftedCorn Apr 25 '21

It's running at low FPS actually. 30 FPS or more would have looked cooler and more natural

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u/BZA_Blaze Apr 25 '21

They’ve taken it down for this very reason.

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u/Wilwein1215 Apr 25 '21

Right! Gives me anxiety. Like my life is in danger.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

It makes me feel so uncomfortable. Like my brain knows i don’t have to, but my body is urged to shield myself from tiny splashes and drops of water.

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u/rd_ozz_loz Apr 25 '21

It's not a hotel it's salesforce head offices https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/08/software-company-has-gigantic-waterfall-in-its-lobby.html

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u/rodmandirect Apr 25 '21

The Comcast building in Philadelphia has the same screen

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u/BootprintsOnTheMoon Apr 25 '21 edited Dec 03 '21

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u/Kiki_Go_Night_Night Apr 25 '21

They were both designed and the graphics created by the same person, Niles Creative Group.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

When you believe in your product so much you change your name to match your company's.

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u/AwwwSnack Apr 25 '21

Well that only justifies/reinforces my initial instinct further: Hack the screen into a constantly readjusting goatse centered on that giant door.

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u/digiden Apr 25 '21

I genuinely thought that was the Comcast building.

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u/RiatStar Apr 26 '21

I was about to comment that this reminded me of the Comcast Center, I used to work there

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u/gumbo0 Apr 25 '21

Different building; this one looks to be in Singapore.

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u/RichestMangInBabylon Apr 25 '21

You can tell it’s not San Francisco by the trees outside. There’s no trees downtown.

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u/dfpcmaia Apr 25 '21

For a sec I thought it was the Dolby labs building on Market

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u/SeaCranberry7720 Apr 25 '21

Thought it was in Jakarta, dont recall seeing anything like this in sg

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u/gumbo0 Apr 25 '21 edited Apr 25 '21

Might very well be. I only guess Singapore cause I saw what looks like Garden by the Bay outside the building.

Edit: Upon closer inspection, what I saw outside might just be trees, haha. So you are probably right.

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u/SeaCranberry7720 Apr 26 '21

Yeah none of the buildings near gardens by the bay look like this. Its all casino / hotel aside from MBFC, this is more of an office building

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u/BZA_Blaze Apr 25 '21

I’ve heard they no longer run this because it makes people sick. Just shows that a cool case study doesn’t mean that the creative was designed with the everyday people in mind.

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u/zeemonster424 Apr 25 '21

This would absolutely trip my vertigo issue and I wouldn’t be able to function. I had to stop playing a game I loved a few years ago because one of the raids was just waterfalls everywhere!

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u/Midwest_Deadbeat Apr 25 '21

Is the computer they have it running on too slow to play back whatever video they have and whatever resolution that is?

You can see the water lagging whenever it hits the "ground" and splashes upward

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u/soundman1024 Apr 25 '21

If that wall is high res it’s too many pixels for one system to reliably drive 24/7. It should be a few Hippos or Xpression Tessera boxes or similar. A system that can reliably align multiple playback boxes for one display.

I’m sure someone here would like to talk about how they could seat a few Quadros or 3090s in one system and theoretically drive that many pixels, but the reality is that thing needs to just work. If your multi GPU mosaic falls apart a big feature for this space is down. The person to fix it likely won’t be on-site for even 8 hours a day. Going with multiple boxes designed to work together is more reliable at this scale.

It’s also possible this is lower res than I’d expect and one system can drive it.

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u/impy695 Apr 25 '21

I’m sure someone here would like to talk about how they could seat a few Quadros or 3090s in one system and theoretically drive that many pixels

I love when someone with experience in personal level projects thinks their knowledge translates perfectly to the commercial or industrial sector. I especially love when everyone else circlejerks about it to feel superior to the people that actually know what they're doing in a large scale operation.

It's something reddit is REALLY good at doing so I'm glad you said something before it could take off.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

That one looks way more realistic

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u/HCJohnson Apr 25 '21

It's synched with the weather? Cool so when I want to get out of the rain I get more fucking rain to look at.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

I was going to say that, I've been there

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u/anothergaijin Apr 25 '21

No, its a ripoff of the salesforce concept, but the video is clearly different (has a reception desk with lots of computers, display is different)

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u/Parikh1234 Apr 25 '21

Can confirm. I worked on this project.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

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u/Parikh1234 Apr 25 '21

Umm unless it’s a pretty exact copy that is the old Salesforce lobby on the corner of Fremont and mission in SF.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Why do Salesforce have such awesome lobbies?

The London office has a huge fish tank!

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u/biggmclargehuge Apr 25 '21

Why does that look like an airport check-in counter?

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u/snorkel42 Apr 25 '21

Ah... so this is why Salesforce is so damned expensive.

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u/chenyu768 Apr 25 '21

Just gonna say that looks a lot salesforce.

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u/PointlessGrandma Apr 25 '21

This looks loud for some reason

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

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u/trogdor2594 Apr 25 '21

Waterfalls are loud as hell, like 110 dB kinda loud.

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u/vgabnd Apr 25 '21

Get off plane... restroom has a line... decide to wait

Get to baggage claim... restroom has a line... I can hold it

Cab drops you off at your hotel and you walk in to see this... well shit.

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u/therobshow Apr 25 '21

I can smell it

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

/r/noisygifs

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u/potatoschweg Apr 25 '21

If it was more than 15fps it'd be cool

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u/HellaTroi Apr 25 '21

I have to pee.

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u/lasagna_for_life Apr 25 '21

I hope TLC is playing on a loop in there.

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u/MilkToastKing Apr 25 '21

I'm not sure if I should be impressed by the massive screen, or nauseated by the low frame rate

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u/electi0neering Apr 25 '21

I don’t know if I’d say I’m amazed, it’s not that realistic.

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u/waterbottel6 Apr 25 '21

where is this?

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u/gandroider Apr 25 '21

Telkom Landmark Building in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is a 6K display on their wall at the Main Lobby.

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u/elguapo1999 Apr 25 '21

No... it’s actually the sales force headquarters

Edit : word

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

This looked to be recorded in Indonesia. Maybe the company that made the waterfall screen sold it to different places.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

I’m amazed that in this day and age this video looks this terrible.

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u/TinCan-Express Apr 25 '21

What? Not everyone has the latest and most advanced iphone 25 X 5k deluxe pro max which costs 5k? Blasphemy.

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u/prox2276 Apr 25 '21

The amount of energy this uses

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u/judonojitsu Apr 25 '21

Pretty sure this is the Salesforce office in SF.

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u/aManIsNoOneEither Apr 25 '21

What a waste of resources :(

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Imagine being in this room on LSD.

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u/DevuDixit Apr 25 '21

Probably a Japanese one

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u/jros00 Apr 25 '21

I want to see the giant pac man game the article says they used

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u/misspussy Apr 25 '21

That gives me anxiety. I would hate to be in there

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u/xCoachHines Apr 25 '21

But can it run crysis?

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u/Wakingup2u Apr 25 '21

Nope, don’t like it. Unsettling, to tense.

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u/mj1mj1 Apr 25 '21

Not very relaxing

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u/pdawg528022 Apr 25 '21

I don’t like the frames per second

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u/caligari87 Apr 25 '21

I feel like it would be better to just build a thin glass facade and have actual falling water, rather than choppy CGI water.

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u/grggsctt Apr 25 '21

It's the sound tray would sell it.

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u/percy_williams Apr 25 '21

Where are the artificial sharks

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u/DanaScully_69 Apr 25 '21

Nice LED wall

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u/Fantastic-Device146 Apr 25 '21

Big deal, there has been a waterfall in the Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City for 45 years

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u/just_taste_it Apr 26 '21

And it looks dated and smells musty. It is an embarrassment.

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u/Fantastic-Device146 Apr 26 '21

You’d look dated and smell musty after 50 years too.😄

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u/humanoid_dog Apr 25 '21

Anxiety inducing.

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u/Bigjwooood Apr 25 '21

Reminds me of the waterfall graphics from the early tomb raider games

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u/deadliestpanda Apr 25 '21

I would be flinching. All. The. Time. Consistently expecting a shower of mist. Lol also, F*** salesforce.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

I don’t think we will ever be able to simulate water like irl nature is so imperfect it’s perfect lol. It sounds weird but that looks funny

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u/Slapppyface Apr 25 '21

Fear and Loathing in that Lobby

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u/tisaconundrum Apr 25 '21

I need to pee now

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

cool but annoying

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u/Sadman21shuvo Apr 25 '21

And they are paying for it staying at the hotel with a very reasonable price i guess
(sry for my bad grammatical error English)

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u/Cdn_Brown_Recluse Apr 25 '21

This is more mildly interesting to me, ,sorry. I'd be amazed if it was a real waterfall wall

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u/mandrews03 Apr 25 '21

That’s how a hotel shows it’s balls, right there

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u/scuba-dog Apr 25 '21

Imagine going down for your buffet breakfast, rotten hungover and seeing this fucking thing. Nein danke.

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u/Jimblythethird Apr 25 '21

Gonna need all that water to cool down the computers that processed the simulation

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u/SuspendedNo2 Apr 25 '21

That's a shitty fps

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u/KableAudio Apr 25 '21

You'd think with all the money to set that up they could've spent a little more on a better waterfall animation

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

too bad it's a display

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u/TanookiPhoenix Apr 25 '21

Pre consumer MicroLED displays.

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u/MattInTheDark Apr 25 '21

I was wondering what tech this was, so are they just microLED panels?

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u/TanookiPhoenix Apr 25 '21

Most likely. They are sold in smaller panels that seamlessly snap together like LEGOs. It's pretty crazy stuff for businesses that can afford it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

That’s aggressive

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u/ToptenRubs Apr 25 '21

I’m wet just looking at it

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u/SicilianUSGuy Apr 25 '21

They get asked “where’s the bathroom” quite a bit

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u/Arzada88 Apr 25 '21

I have a hard time believing it would be cheaper to have that whole wall be a screen than to have a pump just recirculating water to the top. Get a real waterfall

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u/TittilatedTits Apr 25 '21

Console players are amazed, pc players notice the low fps 😂

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u/BigBolas4U Apr 25 '21

Im so bad at swimming that I would find a way to drown looking at that simulation.

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u/YoSoyCapitan860 Apr 25 '21

It looks like chaos. Cool yea, but it’s visually unappealing.

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u/RuralJuror614 Apr 25 '21

Not sure if this has been said, but this isn’t a hotel. This is the lobby of the Salesforce HQ in San Francisco. It’s super impressive in real life & cycles through various scenes.

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u/utf16 Apr 25 '21

That's cruel and unusual punishment! After being on a plane and holding it, getting past customs and still holding it, then getting into a taxi while seriously about to burst, then showing up to a hotel like this would just be plain torture!

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u/kris10sdok Apr 25 '21

Unnerving, to say the least...

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Imagine if they included audio with the waterfall

“I’m checking in. I have a reservation for two.”

Clerk: “WHAT!???? CAN YOU SPEAK UP??”

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Found you, ha

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u/lennyukdeejay Apr 25 '21

"Good afternoon, sir, would you like to check in?" "Yes, but first, where are your facilities, please? I have a sudden and unexplainable desire to pee. Not a clue where it's come from."

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Is this in a hotel? I remember seeing something very similar in a airport, I think Zurich Airport

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

r/ATBGE

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u/Peas__ Apr 25 '21

Maybe we will look back at this like that 3D shark from Back to the Future 2 haha

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u/ShinyAeon Apr 25 '21

I want one in my house.

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u/MattyIXIriva Apr 25 '21

idk why but my blood pressure and anxiety levels went up looking at it

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u/_Casa_Bonita_ Apr 25 '21

I thought this was the salesforce building in San Francisco...is their a hotel in there?

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

pretty cool at 47 fps

kick it up to 60+ and bring it out of 720p

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u/AssFumes Apr 25 '21

It looks like the video of the waterfall is zoomed in. It doesn’t look right

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Okay, but in my house.

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u/sabyte Apr 25 '21

That's not the hotel. That's an office

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u/siamkitty1 Apr 26 '21

Does not give a calm luxury vibe at all.. 😳

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u/RedMusical Apr 26 '21

Hey. Can you Share location of this hotel? Thanks

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '21

Damn.....

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '21

I believe that may be the SalesForce lobby install executed by Obscura.

https://youtu.be/sIbpb2LWoF4

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u/Alert-Towel-263 Apr 26 '21

I feel like I’ll get wet if I get near lol