Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery (hallucinate.site)

65 points by stagas 10 hours ago

23 comments:

by thih9 5 hours ago

This is “gallery documenting the Hallucinate project (a MMO rave)”, and not “gallery made by AI hallucinating for two weeks” (as I originally assumed).

by lukan 10 hours ago

I .. don't get it. (And don't want to sign up to find out) What am I looking at? People raving online? (Or letting their avatars do it) But there are real people mixed in, so those are the real DJ's?

by alfanick 9 hours ago

It's ('is/was) amazing! On launch date I've spent good couple of hours there. The execution is magnificent. Realtime rave in minecraft-like world. Somehow this needs business model to keep it actually alive and well.

by lukan 9 hours ago

Ok, trying it out now from my PC. Nice, one can even go into second dancefloors, in a tent (with youtube that I can influence) but there movement could be polished. But I like the idea.

by stagas 8 hours ago

We are selling T-shirts if you saw and there is a donation pill bottom right :)

by rzzzt 10 hours ago

Here's the Show HN post for it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304260

by stagas 10 hours ago

It's a VR world recreation of a rave party. There is no signup, just a nickname.

by hackingonempty 8 hours ago

I've tried this a couple of times but it doesn't work for me, probably because I'm not willing to let Google follow me everywhere on the web. It looks like YouTube is required for music and won't start without it.

Instead of using giant Opus files that require you to rely on Google to make your site affordably hosted, how about using the "tracker" technology of yore? It let folks enjoy downloaded electronic music back in the dialup era. Formats include MOD, XM, IT and S3M and there are a bunch of semi-abandoned JS implementations.

by stagas 8 hours ago

Why not? It is open-source[0] so this can be added by anyone interested in this.

But IMO a major component of the experience is seeing a DJ playing on the stage, which is why all of the videos are from HÖR Berlin[1] where this is their format.

[0]: https://github.com/stagas/hallucinate

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@hoer.berlin https://hoer.live/

by ArekDymalski 8 hours ago

> how about using the "tracker" technology of yore?

now that would be a party I'd join to rock to some Dune/Orange or Purple Motion/FC tunes :)

by Aardwolf 4 hours ago

I had no idea what I was looking at until I read the hacker news comments, what I was thinking it was was AI-hallucinated images of a combination of the Backrooms and the Metaverse

by stagas 4 hours ago

In a sense, this whole game has been hallucinated by an AI since it's vibe-coded entirely with GPT 5.5.

by fallinditch 4 hours ago

I love this, great job! Do you have any plans to take it further?

by stagas 4 hours ago

Thanks! I'm open to suggestions, right now I'm improving the experience every day a little. It's also open-source[0] so contributions are welcome.

[0]: https://github.com/stagas/hallucinate

by fallinditch 3 hours ago

It would be nice if users could generate their own venues, maybe also use AI to convert text descriptions into venues, live events, (sponsored venues/events?), regular 'festivals' where the whole world changes: forest, desert, beach, etc

by stagas 3 hours ago

They can! Through AI and a PR :)

by mangelovski 9 hours ago

Nice dance moves :) For some reason took me back to some of the underground berlin raves I visited when I lived there . . . I miss those days

by stagas 9 hours ago

It's inspired by Berlin spaces and raves yeah! The music is also from HÖR Berlin.

by thomasfromcdnjs 9 hours ago

Hats off, really well built.

by alpineman 10 hours ago

Who needs Berghain, the loading bar is much shorter and with less uncertainty at the end (a bit when it gets stuck at 93% briefly though :D)

by stagas 9 hours ago

And photos allowed! :)

by smrtinsert 6 hours ago

This might be greatest thing ever, especially if you have any experience with that culture.

by hmokiguess 10 hours ago

this is amazing

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