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Meta's head of augmented reality software stepping down
- npalli 3y agoLooks like this is a great time to announce executive firings at large tech companies, people getting mentally prepared for thanksgiving and the holidays to care ...
- cvhashim04 3y agoFriday afternoon news dump
- choppaface 3y agoThanksgiving firings mean fewer end-of-year bonuses and also peace of mind to the admin and legal teams.
- asylteltine 3y agoThat’s not surprising seeing how much of a massive failure it is.
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- FirmwareBurner 3y agoWDYM? Meta's VR tech is solid. Not sure it's his fault it's not selling well because Zuck poisoned with Facebook and bullshit Metaverse features.
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- asylteltine 3y agoVR is not mixed reality and their metaverse stuff is a massive failure in usage and in tech
- mjhay 3y agoZuck has been the one pushing for this Metaverse stupidity from the beginning. Good thing he has controlling interest. This guy was more on the tech side, but the fundamental problems with Zuckerberg's vision are not technical. This really sounds like scapegoating.
- Apocryphon 3y agoI know just the guy who's open to work
- aalimov_ 3y agoSam Altman?
- Apocryphon 3y agoDon Box ;)
- tempodox 3y agoHe could get fully automated retinal scans of all users.
- timeon 3y agoToo many layoffs.
- shmatt 3y agoSo supergroup AI tech leaders announce new company raising $1B pre seed at $7B valuation Monday?
- xwdv 3y agoMore like an AI tech Legion of Doom.
- WhatIsDukkha 3y agoIts kind of underappreciated how much of a failure their entire software stack is (Bosworth should be the first to leave). For those paying attention, the technical VR "stuff that works" is basically written by Qualcomm. The user side Android system is, really badly done and irritating for people using it as people like Carmack have pointed out. This is possible the biggest software development blunder in history, they seem to have spent 10-20 billion dollars on... Qualcomm making a good vr headset for them and them failing to deliver a good experience with it.
- ge96 3y agoDoes this include the newest headset? That one looked pretty good feature wise.
- WhatIsDukkha 3y agoYes its still the underlying software thats terrible. It's an almost straight port of normal android into the headset which is at least familiar but they've really not made any progress in making it more VR and comfortable over time. Lots of small tweaking of whats probably not a great overall fit for VR. For a direct example look at the room boundary system and setup. Even with the new depth sensor and the color passthrough, it fails to figure out whether a table is a surface or a pillow of polygons, it fails to set reasonable wall boundaries (and then the ui is awful for addressing that) and then it nags and irritates people with those failures and misunderstandings. Last I checked, the room software still only stores one room in your house. If you go to your kitchen for your coffee... remake the room boundary over again. This is very fundamental for any AR to be built on and its terrible and unreliable. Edit- also, last I checked, if you turn off boundary nagging with the devtools you cannot use the passthrough mode whatsoever.
- Panini_Jones 3y agoThis is the head of AR software that's stepping down, as well, which doesn't even do SLAM or DFS afaik. They just chucked the custom silicon team out in September. I wonder if we'll ever see their mostly functional AR headset vs. Raybans with cameras.
- throwaway19423 3y agoOh .. Don Box? (remember reading his books on the Microsoft stack a lifetime ago) .. if this is the same person.
- golergka 3y agoLayoffs got to C-level?
- givemeethekeys 3y agoAt the executive level, there are parachutes. Layoffs don't hurt the same.
- justinclift 3y ago"Golden parachutes" is the term. Along the lines of: "I was laid off from the last two places, and I will never need to work again".
- stephc_int13 3y agoFish rots from the head, as they say. In my opinion, the technical know-how of Zuck was perfectly valid to build Facebook, but not this. VR/AR/anything with real-time world simulation and rendering is completely different from the web tech stack and could be considered to be a different world, with a different mindset. Carmack obviously had the appropriate mindset, but AFAIK not the power to act. So Suck and his appointed staff probably took critical technical decisions regarding the software architecture of this project. Given that we know that part of plan was to buy Unity back in 2015 and build their Metaverse on top of this engine, I seriously doubt this team really understood what they were doing.
- autoexec 3y ago> In my opinion, the technical know-how of Zuck was perfectly valid to build Facebook, but not this. Technical know-how is the least of their problems. The tech is irrelevant to me. Facebook's user-hostile and abusive actions have made it so that now anything they make is automatically something I want nothing to do with. In my opinion, no matter how good the tech is, anyone foolish enough to participate in Facebook's "Metaverse" is just bending over, spreading, and asking to get screwed over and over again. The company has repeatedly demonstrated that it is toxic, criminal, and actively harmful to their users. No amount of fancy VR tech could ever be cool enough for me to let them use me. They can change their name as many times as they like, but they've already shown us what they are.
- ryandrake 3y ago> Technical know-how is the least of their problems. The tech is irrelevant to me. Facebook's user-hostile and abusive actions have made it so that now anything they make is automatically something I want nothing to do with. You got it! I have an original Oculus Rift (CV1) and when they were bought by Facebook it was like a kick to the gut. Felt as if Philip Morris or Monsanto bought the company that made my beloved headset. I wish they could be spun off or something so I could use the product with a good conscience. For a while, I could justify using it because my money went to Oculus, not Facebook, but now that they require a Meta account just to use it, no way Jose.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoIts time they call their failure a failure and rename their company back to Facebook. That is what I have been calling them anyways.
- JacobAldridge 3y agoI think everyone on Twitter still calls it Facebook, but not sure if every Google employee thinks differently.
- seydor 3y agoBut does everyone in Facebook call Twitter X?
- JacobAldridge 3y agoOnly if they know their Alphabet
- wkat4242 3y agoPaywall free: https://archive.ph/SQcMd https://archive.ph/SQcMd
- 6stringmerc 3y agoYeah the future is in Bovines not Humans. Better platform. This human needs glasses and still takes breaks with them off. Brains and this tech now are primitive.
- wg0 3y agoZuck and Musk are among the most clueless tech leaders of the past half a decade?
- ohcomments 3y agoThis: https://youtu.be/watch?v=Drbs7w9diCM https://youtu.be/watch?v=Drbs7w9diCM aged like fine milk.... In hours! Lol