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> Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence So...what happened to that whole "Metaverse" thing? Is it time to rename the company a
by paxys 3y ago
> Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence
So...what happened to that whole "Metaverse" thing? Is it time to rename the company again?
- threeseed 3y agoMeta's AR/VR strategy is still the over-arching priority and given how well Quest 3 and Ray Bans glasses are doing shows that it is likely the right one. Especially once Apple Vision Pro ignites the industry. AI will be used to enhance that e.g. generated avatars, autonomous agents, hand/body tracking etc.
- aabhay 3y agoHow well are the Ray Bans doing? I’ve never heard anyone talk about them nor seen anyone wearing them.
- threeseed 3y agoSurprisingly well. Strong adoption by the younger TikTok generation which is an area that Meta has been desperate to bring back into their fold. Also the product is pretty impressive. The camera quality is really good and the AI features genuinely useful. Definitely caused many in the industry to wonder if that form factor could be the future of the AR industry in the short term as well as the long term.
- aabhay 3y agoDoesn’t seem to be the case —- https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/3/23818462/meta-ray-ban-stories-smart-glasses-retention-reality-labs https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/3/23818462/meta-ray-ban-stor... Less than 10% retention after two years.
- ben_w 3y ago> Especially once Apple Vision Pro ignites the industry. I may be repeating my own errors with the following as I said much the same for the iPhone and the Apple Watch when they were new, but… The prices Apple are asking for seem excessive given what the products actually do, surely the cheaper alternatives are going to be what really matters? (In this case, cheaper alternatives would include the Meta headsets).
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- hindsightbias 3y agoCheaper than an 8K OLED. Watched a guy spend $6K on iPads for his kids like it was a stocking stuffer. Took 15 minutes as he had to call the wife on if 1TB was enough. Felt bad I was just buying an Air so wandered to let the sales kid work him. Kid said it was an overage day.
- ben_w 3y agoMmm. You've just reminded me how weird I am with money. Back in 2000-ish, a summer holiday job I was doing for an hourly pay of… I can't remember exactly, but perhaps the equivalent of £10k/year for the full-timers… one of my coworkers said he'd bought a plasma TV for his 1- or 2-year old son. Those things were considered expensive luxuries back then. I guess people like him are the norm.
- ethbr1 3y ago> Especially once Apple Vision Pro ignites the industry. Ah, yes, the inevitability of Apple success. Just as everyone switched from cell phones to PDAs after 1993.
- blackoil 3y agoWow, you must go back 30 years to find a failure. That's hugely impressive. If we squint enough we can add FireWire to that.
- ethbr1 3y agoThere's a train of Apple misses. Hindsight is success after success, because we only remember the successful and final versions of products. Generally, they get it right a lot of the time. More than others! But argumentum ad Apple to convince of the inevitability of technological shifts is insane.
- pelagicAustral 3y agoMan, the Metaverse... what a fad. I almost can't even believe that WAS a thing. We had Habbo, and then we had Second Life, and NOW!!!!!!.... * deafening silence *
- rvnx 3y agoVR is a gadget, the same way that 4D cinemas are gadget. Ok it's +/- fun the first time to receive water droplets in your face while watching a movie, or for the cinema to spread fake fart smell, but this is not the experience you want to have every day. Apparently only a single-digit % of people who purchased AR headsets are using them once in a month (source: Valve developer Chet Faliszek)
- nomel 3y agoIn my opinion, HMD are clearly the future of display tech. VR is something you get for free, with an HMD.
- rvnx 3y agoA (dystopian) future is more likely the Neuralink injecting visual signals or thoughts. Even an ultra-light HMD gives the Glasshole feeling, besides not being comfortable to wear.
- nomel 3y ago> Even an ultra-light HMD gives the Glasshole feeling, besides not being comfortable to wear. Which have you had experience with? And, do you believe whatever you wore was as good as it gets?
- theshackleford 3y ago> but this is not the experience you want to have every day. It’s been the experience I’ve been having every day since the original oculus devkit. I’ve rarely touched a flatscreen title since. Eventually I hope they’ll become good enough to work in when I travel. edit In saying that, i've always maintained its not ready for normies yet, and that we were probably a good decade or two away from the point where its going to be in a format/design that the mass market would accept/have interest in. In fact in many cases, I still actively reccomend against purchase because I know it's still kinda incuating along.
- slowmovintarget 3y agoHow would one manage a fully connected VR-scape without AGI?
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- ivanmontillam 3y agoIt is that time. First it will be "Meta AI" and then the "Meta" will be long gone. I'm gonna get downvoted for this comment because this is not Reddit, but I had to say it.