Hottake having read the whole thing, I think too much is made about the "personal vs social" binning of Meta vs Apple. It's true off the bat, but, is more use

Hottake having read the whole thing, I think too much is made about the "personal vs social" binning of Meta vs Apple. It's true off the bat, but, is more useful as a hook to hang philosophy about our isolated selves on, than a concrete projection of how this is going to develop. To put a sharp edge on that, I will go so far as to say I think this is quite the wrong take, and I have receipts. Maybe. The FaceTime bit about scanning your face, and presenting you sans mask in teleconferencing? Great, I look fine in FaceTime! ...the exercise left to the student to infer is that if you can appear in FaceTime, next you can appear in the space with me outside that frame. Or your AI-backed agent, which also you know, can replicate your manner of speaking and voice, because Apple has infinite hours new and old of your speech, written and verbal, on tap, right? You and proxy-you are going to be in shared space with other wearers... soon. And then well we have something world-altering to deal with, because our monkey-minds fully accept such figures as "real" and our memories filter out the virtuality of our interactions, where our analytic mind does not. The world of "Her" and Joe's "girl friend" in Blade Runner etc are all getting really close. See the clickbait about someone "marrying" their AI boyfriend yesterday? Anyway I digress, but, yeah, I think Apple is quietly collecting cards for shared virtual presence, and as per usual will take their time to make it wow on disclosure.