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Co-founder of Simula here. Agreed. In many ways it makes zero sense that our micro team of 3 people with extremely limited resources is making the first (at l
by georgewsinger 5y ago
Co-founder of Simula here. Agreed. In many ways it makes zero sense that our micro team of 3 people with extremely limited resources is making the first (at least Linux) VR Computer (VRC). This is something that Big Tech companies should be doing in a well-functioning economy, but for some reason aren't, due to some combination of bureaucratic inertia and risk-aversion.
Every year Apple is one year away from releasing its supposed AR headset. Google basically abandoned Daydream (which was gaming/entertainment focused anyway). Microsoft had a great early Hololens prototype, but doesn't seem to be pushing consumer facing AR/VR at all (instead selling contracts to the military??).
Meta is investing heavily in VR (which is cool), but is unfortunately jamming it through the awkward framing of "make everything in VR a social network", which we're not fans of: https://simulavr.com/blog/we-dont-want-the-metaverse/ https://simulavr.com/blog/we-dont-want-the-metaverse/
In any event, we're really excited to help bring a Linux VRC to market that is focused primarily on office work, programmer productivity, and general purpose computing. =]