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It's not just these companies. There should be some serious discussion about the Oculus purchase. The result of that is a company focus which is to the detriment of any number of up and coming metaverse/VR companies.
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Former competitive shooter here. This is easy, nearly any bolt action rifle resting on something is incredibly accurate. And this is not a long shot - that would be 600 yards and up. And still possible at that range.
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this. VRML != metaverse. A bad graphics layer essentially. Nothing to say really about multi-user scalability, performance, or really interactivity. Even Carmack was disparaging at the time : https://www.reddit.com/r/
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The are competing with Epic, which has a huge presence in the VFX industry - including Unreal being used on the real-time VFX for the Mandalorian. Weta was using Unreal at one time, as well. This is likely a more strategic move to a) obta
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Architectural. A sea change from thinking about client-server web and game like applications where you are explicitly synchronizing state - to AR and VR objects/functions "running persistently" in the metaverse/cloud, a
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Not correct to my understanding, and somewhat out of date information. I do suggest looking at the natural beekeeping literature, for example : https://www.naturalbeekeepingtrust.org/natural-bee-husbandry this source freque
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I believe this to be an incorrect statement. Evolution in insects is working on a much tighter time-frame, for example: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-evidence-peppe... Also there are plenty of "bee
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Not everywhere. On the western slopes of places like the santa cruz mountains, we mostly get a thermal sea breeze that keeps things cool during summer (our so called "natural air conditioner"). This also does a very good job of
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If you are introverted (not saying you are), or just having difficulty connecting to people the way to go is to do some sort of shared goal directed activity that you can talk about with said other people. Join a club, or take up an activi
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What you are looking for is an "intentional community". Google that and you will find plenty of them, and a book.
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More broadly that the worry about the device being locked IMO is the issue of consent . I, personally, don't consent to being filmed by what amounts to facebook in a public space and then especially not to having that data being inpu
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You mean this. Which already happened: https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/16/augmented-reality-explorer...
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If that were true, we would have no problems with lack of immunity to things, or invasive species and organisms displacing things in ecosystems.