3 ms·
(ex-Meta person who came in via the CTRL acquisition, and quit back in Dec 2022) It’s still going! CTRL labs has received a ton of internal resources, and scal
by escapecharacter 3y ago
(ex-Meta person who came in via the CTRL acquisition, and quit back in Dec 2022)
It’s still going! CTRL labs has received a ton of internal resources, and scaled up significantly the 3.5 years I was there. Almost all of that effort is going towards stamping out edge failure cases on the path to making a reliable consumer product.
Consider: What works well for an onstage demo or a store demo you store needs a lot of “last mile” work so that a naive consumer can take it out of a box at home and have it work flawlessly. This is especially true for a new product category. I doubt it will be in the wild until it’s rock solid. There was incredible improvements while I was there, but keep in mind it’s an entire new product category, and so it’s not worth the risk of shipping early and imperfect.
- cobertos 3y agoAh good to hear! Even if it wasn't consumer ready, I wanted to tinker/hack with it pretty bad! Of my VR and AR device experiences, ive found I just dont have the bodily endurance for long sessions over multiple days like I do with computer screens. I thought screens + an "anywhere, any position" keyboard would be more suited to what I wanted[1]. The TapStrap got me partially there. [1] WIP blog post about it, still have a lot of blanks to fill in, https://cobertos.com/blog/post/portable-computing-setup https://cobertos.com/blog/post/portable-computing-setup