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[–] 118 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I see your confusion. The ad copy gives you the impression that it is selling the display, but what I really want is that amazing AI-enabled hover-mouse that doesn't need to be on a table to be used.

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  • [–] 100 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The marketing is "get them to stare at our ad for more than 2 seconds, and maybe get some people to post it around for free as 'content'." Looks like it worked perfectly.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah but I still don’t want to buy it lol

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It’s not about wanting to buy it. It’s about recognizing the logo and trusting it when you see it.

    Quick without cheating by looking at the image, what does the product logo look like?

    If you don’t know, that means they successfully bypassed your conscious mind while presenting it. Bypassing the conscious mind, ie your attention, it allows them to introduce elements that are stored in your mind separately from the disjointed/unpleasant ad experience.

    So when you come across this product in the future, it won’t be “this is that brand with the ugly ad”. It will be “this is that brand I recognize”.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Quick, without looking it up, how many days ate there in a Saturn year?

    If you don't know, they have successfully bypassed your conscious mind.

    Sometimes an ad so shitty that you can't even remember neither logo nor the brand is just a shitty ad.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    Any time you see stuff about the "accessing the unconscious" assume it's BS until otherwise proven. That being said, brand recognition is a real thing that gets worried about, and passive absorption of it might be the idea here. There's two logos and they're both right in the center.

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    [–] 92 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    What's so confusing? Is it the hand holding the laptop, the foot holding up the monitor, the face down cupboard? I'm sure there's more.

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  • [–] [S] 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It’s not the cupboard, it’s the whole world that’s on its side, look at the clouds lmao

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even if you tilt the picture so the world outside is right-side-up, the cabinets are still not right

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    This confusing nonsense is why our firm shifted the entire marketing budget to hypnotoad endorsements.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    You can't escape...

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It’s actually a good ad, though I question the setting for a young woman. She is so immersed by the display, the room she is in has faded away and become whatever game she is playing. That’s why there is no computer desk.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I agree. It's clever, given the theme of escapism - at a glance it's a pic of someone using a monitor, but the more you look, the more things are weird or uncanny. And yet she is so engrossed, she doesn't know (or care).

    Took me a while to spot that the outside is rotated 90 degrees!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Said like somebody who doesn't know that using two keyboards allows you to hack twice as fast. Same logic here.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Everything is disjointed, confused, altered - except for the monitor.

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    At least the model looks about as confused as the rest of us lol

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    An arm holding up the laptop and a foot holding up the display

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    She's focussing deeply on using Windows' On-screen keyboard

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Your computer has been infected by a pornographic virus. You have 25 seconds to close all 517 popups using the office’s deadliest mouse.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    1500R? So, like, you need to sit 4.5 feet away for the curve to make sense?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I don’t think that’s true at all.

    I realize the geometry predicts some optimal spot for viewing the curve but that just is a mathematical ideal not a real world necessity. If it was then everyone who has ever watched a flat screen would be like “omg I feel like I’m too close because I’m not watching from infinity.” I have a 35” monitor with 1800R and it is very pleasant in a normal desktop setting. I looked into 1000R screens since I like to sit fairly close and the curve felt so extreme that it was a major distraction no matter which distance I sat at.

    I guess I’m saying that the curvature is very much a personal preference thing and if people can tolerate a flat screen they can also tolerate a curve that isn’t meeting some mathematical ideal.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Floating mouse, apparently it still works.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    This looks like a weird combination of 2020 Design and Space Engineers to me

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That mouse has nowhere to rest it, and that bothers me.

    Yes, I know.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Ouch! Ma neck!

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