Yeah, repetitive textures can be an issue. I don’t get easily addicted to video games, and I reluctantly installed Minecraft and got around to see how it works, but the simplistic flat structures made it pretty much useless. And it takes time to build, you don’t just smack up a house.
Roblox looks promising. Like here, there’s quite a lot of detail.
I have to stress, 3D and VR are worlds apart. VR is nothing short of amazing, for retention and wowing people. Get chased by a monster in VR and you’ll remember the place. And it would be easy to visualize something happening in all the loci. I half wonder if the best approach to retention would be screenshots from VR which then gets exported into Paint and associations pasted onto them, and then taking both into Anki: Empty loci on the frontside of the flashcard, and then you’re to guess which associations you’ll see in that very loci on the backside of the card.
I’m thinking of learning three.js as a way to make 3d memory palaces in JavaScript. (Always looking for an excuse to practice JavaScript). If I can get enough free 3d assets I could make some pretty outrageous ones.
I have been experimenting with 2D comic books and this looks a lot more promising.
Yes, Anki is great. I use it a lot. However, for memory palaces I found Anki frustrating. I made my own little app (badly). It downloads the memory palace information from Google Sheets. I update my palace in Google Sheets and when I want to be tested Voila!
Thanks for starting this great discussion. Now my wheels are spinning…
Your post in the other thread was amazeballs. I wish the world was smaller, so one could pop over to share advice on stuff. I’d love to see exactly how you get to work on books.
I am not sure if I catch your drift with 3D games. Please tell more.
But I’ll expand on what I wrote about Anki and VR. I was thinking of first exploring a world with Oculus Rift, so you’ll know the memory palace. Then take flat screenshots of loci, one of which would be empty, the other would have mnemonic images. So this would be the question side of the Anki card.
Looking at it I would quiz myself for what should be on it. And if I fail to recall “tree, sun, boar, tree, beehive”, then I’d hit “again”.
This would be the answer side.
So no text on the Anki cards, just a picture on the question side and another picture on the answer side. I could write on the answer side that mnemonics on the picture is supposed to represent three, one, four, one and five. But the picture alone on the answer side would suffice.
Fascinating. I was thinking the same thing. I am re-focusing on Anki more as I do think it is the easiest way to “load up” a memory palace. Also, I am using it as a way to trick myself to go to the gym.
Answer side with Mnemonics…
For me, I need a description of the Mnemonic. It would be too hard to draw the entirety of my outrageous mnemonic on the computer. I am now sometimes including a few still images of a few things related to the mnemonic on the back of the Anki card.
I was in error to think it was not worth putting an image of the mnemonic on the backside of the card. Just seeing the related mnemonic images when answering the card will indeed burn it into memory.
Apparently thew newer 3D Fallout games all have “level editors” you can download to create your own locations on the map. I actually purchased Fallout: New Vegas for this purpose. Unfortunately, I couldn’t stop playing it so I had to delete everything.
The same problem of limited textures and assets. Fallout 4 has one - the textures are quite a bit more advanced - although I don’t think my machine can run that one.
Hi I have some alternative options to make memory palaces. I am using sketch up software to create palaces easily and then I am converting them to a vr model using simlab software in desktop /laptop.Then I am genrating a file so that I can view that vr model in Android using a vr set and using the same simlab software which comes for Android. It’s very useful.
I had that exact same thought. I want to use them for songlines, but there isn’t readily available organic detail that you can say “Oh, well, this sort of looks like a duck so I think I’ll imagine this here”, although this has begun to change as scanning in textures and objects becomes more prevalent.
