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There is some irony in one of the largest companies in the world changing their name to Meta; and hordes of people preaching about the metaverse and the brillia
by jncfhnb 2y ago
There is some irony in one of the largest companies in the world changing their name to Meta; and hordes of people preaching about the metaverse and the brilliance of Neal Stephenson and Snowcrash and then all at the end of the day paying basically no attention to the part of the book where he explains the thing that made the meta verse popular in universe (it was high fidelity facial expression copying).
- grumbel 2y agoMeta is working on that with their Codec Avatars[1], but since their focus is on affordable self contained VR headsets, and PCVR support is all but abandoned, they'll likely remain R&D experiments for quite a few more years. They just don't have enough compute in their current hardware offering. Apple with their VisionPro is quite a bit further along and their Persona[2] are available to consumer, though the price tag of the device puts it out of reach for almost everybody. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDxMZ9zjqMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDxMZ9zjqMs [2] https://youtu.be/H3PB2zA6Q-c?si=E_OU1WeF4tsqhpTR&t=288 https://youtu.be/H3PB2zA6Q-c?si=E_OU1WeF4tsqhpTR&t=288
- jdashg 2y agoI'm too much of a transhumanist to understand why, when you can choose to look like anything you could imagine, you would choose to look like your default human self!