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If someone would tell me just a decade ago that Facebook will become one of the most open innovating companies and Mark Zuckerberg one of sane billionares I wou

by SXX 2y ago

If someone would tell me just a decade ago that Facebook will become one of the most open innovating companies and Mark Zuckerberg one of sane billionares I would really laugh in their face. But now... Regardless of how actually successful their attempts at VR and AI end up they already going to have some place in history for that.

sverhagen 2y ago
Grading on a curve...
cube2222 2y ago
To be fair, they have a very long history of open-sourcing internal software, and it becoming industry standards, this is not at all new, as some have been saying. Especially so in database technology: rocksdb, zstd compression, presto, Cassandra, Hive, Velox (this one’s new) are all Meta’s doing. And those are just the popular ones, there’s way more (database-related) projects they open sourced that didn’t get too popular! So all in all, as much as I’m happy to complain about them as a company, they’ve always been huge contributors to the open-source ecosystem.
- SXX 2y ago
  While this is true they wasn't so different before compared to Google and even Microsoft in later years. Other companies also released a lot of open source software. AI research is different though. Everyone else decided against open source and started to dig their own moats justifying it with different kind of BS. Yet Facebook / Meta has decided to be on side of open innovations.
- iddan 2y ago
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space_oddity 2y ago
I love my Oculus but VR has yet to achieve the cultural ubiquity (mb off topic).
- latentsea 2y ago
  I first had a headset back in 2017 for the fun factor of playing around with the hot new thing. It has to be tethered to a powerful gaming PC, was heavy, and the resolution / FOV was relatively poor, and of course no passthrough. I got a quest 3 about months ago and it's a world of difference from where the form factor was at in the past. It's to the point now where it's actually better for certain use cases than other alternatives and hence sees some daily use from me. If the trend continues to get better and hardware that's smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and generally more useful, then I do see it hitting mass adoption at some point. I think the demo Zuck did with Lex on his podcast where they did the podcast in VR using their avatars was pretty neat and the point where that is commercially available and as easy to use as a smartphone, it's a no brainer that it'll sell well.
- SXX 2y ago
  I totally understand that VR is loss leader for Meta and a lot of Metaverse stuff they do is cringey, but at least they do have some vision. They actually build some new tech and trying to make it work for mass market. What Google trying to do other than maintain their ad revenue? IDK.
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by SXX 2y ago

sverhagen 2y ago

Grading on a curve...

cube2222 2y ago

To be fair, they have a very long history of open-sourcing internal software, and it becoming industry standards, this is not at all new, as some have been saying. Especially so in database technology: rocksdb, zstd compression, presto, Cassandra, Hive, Velox (this one’s new) are all Meta’s doing. And those are just the popular ones, there’s way more (database-related) projects they open sourced that didn’t get too popular! So all in all, as much as I’m happy to complain about them as a company, they’ve always been huge contributors to the open-source ecosystem.

SXX 2y ago
While this is true they wasn't so different before compared to Google and even Microsoft in later years. Other companies also released a lot of open source software. AI research is different though. Everyone else decided against open source and started to dig their own moats justifying it with different kind of BS. Yet Facebook / Meta has decided to be on side of open innovations.
iddan 2y ago
Also in web development technologies: React, React Native, Jest, GraphQL, & Docusaurus

space_oddity 2y ago

I love my Oculus but VR has yet to achieve the cultural ubiquity (mb off topic).

latentsea 2y ago
I first had a headset back in 2017 for the fun factor of playing around with the hot new thing. It has to be tethered to a powerful gaming PC, was heavy, and the resolution / FOV was relatively poor, and of course no passthrough. I got a quest 3 about months ago and it's a world of difference from where the form factor was at in the past. It's to the point now where it's actually better for certain use cases than other alternatives and hence sees some daily use from me. If the trend continues to get better and hardware that's smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and generally more useful, then I do see it hitting mass adoption at some point. I think the demo Zuck did with Lex on his podcast where they did the podcast in VR using their avatars was pretty neat and the point where that is commercially available and as easy to use as a smartphone, it's a no brainer that it'll sell well.
SXX 2y ago
I totally understand that VR is loss leader for Meta and a lot of Metaverse stuff they do is cringey, but at least they do have some vision. They actually build some new tech and trying to make it work for mass market. What Google trying to do other than maintain their ad revenue? IDK.

01945503192 2y ago

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