Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery

Posted by stagas 3 days ago

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Comment by thih9 3 days 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).

Comment by lukan 3 days 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?

Comment by alfanick 3 days 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.

Comment by lukan 3 days 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.

Comment by 0x6c6f6c 3 days ago

Microtransactions. In a non-joking sense. People pay for outfits or gear to wear to the rave. Or they can work for it in game. Maybe a bit like EVE Online where you can pay monthly to play but if you make enough in-game you can buy a months subscription.

Comment by stagas 3 days ago

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

Comment by rzzzt 3 days ago

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

Comment by stagas 3 days ago

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

Comment by hackingonempty 3 days 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.

Comment by stagas 3 days 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/

Comment by ArekDymalski 3 days 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 :)

Comment by mangelovski 3 days 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

Comment by stagas 3 days ago

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

Comment by thomasfromcdnjs 3 days ago

Hats off, really well built.

Comment by Aardwolf 3 days 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

Comment by stagas 3 days ago

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

Comment by fallinditch 3 days ago

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

Comment by stagas 3 days 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

Comment by fallinditch 3 days 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

Comment by stagas 3 days ago

They can! Through AI and a PR :)

Comment by alpineman 3 days 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)

Comment by stagas 3 days ago

And photos allowed! :)

Comment by smrtinsert 3 days ago

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