dmarcos

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by dmarcos 3y ago
Yeah. https://twitter.com/stuffyokodraws/status/167879943947197235... Smart. A VC firm that heavily invests in software platforms will make much better decisions if they have first hand experience using the produc
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by dmarcos 3y ago
Palmer's article "Free isn't cheap enough" seems relevant: https://palmerluckey.com/free-isnt-cheap-enough/ Quest headsets are indeed cheap but but perhaps sacrifice too much on the experience quali
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by dmarcos 3y ago
I work from a co-working space on Mission & 20th and see them all the time.
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by dmarcos 3y ago
Not only downtown. I’ve been living in the Castro (Castro & Market) for a decade. 30% of commercial real estate closed / boarded-up, plenty of tents around and see people smoking crack every day. Not even trying to hide. It was not
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by dmarcos 3y ago
PCs and smartphones were both proven markets regardless of market size in a way VR is not today. People owned smartphones (blackberries and palm) and PCs, use them a lot and had established (not speculative) use cases. Clear market signal w
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by dmarcos 3y ago
Great news indeed. Announced support though is only experimental (disabled by default behind flag). It'll probably take some time post launch of Vision Pro to release enabled by default.
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Safari shipping WebXR experimentally on Apple Vision Pro(developer.apple.com)
14 points by dmarcos 3y ago|5 comments
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by dmarcos 3y ago
Relevant part 14:12 in
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by dmarcos 3y ago
Have you tried Bigscreen VR? State of the art to watch a movie together in VR
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by dmarcos 3y ago
Difference is that Apple enters categories that have already product-market fit (PCs, MP3 players, laptops, smartphones, fitness trackers). Only exception probably being the iPad. VR doesn’t have product-market fit except for some games gen
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by dmarcos 3y ago
Yeah. Apple enters categories that already have product-market fit. It outsources market research to first movers. VR has only significant traction for a handful of games. iPad is indeed an exception while watches and fitness trackers were
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by dmarcos 3y ago
I’ve seen cool demos and proof of concept of professional tools but don’t know of any that have traction and good retention. Do you have examples of tools with significant adoption?
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by dmarcos 3y ago
Don’t have precise answers to your questions but let me reframe. AAA games that pushes HW to the limit is a small fraction of all content. Among most popular content on Quest you have VR Chat, Gorilla Tag, Beat Saber, Job Simulator: Indie t
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by dmarcos 3y ago
Eventually but unlikely in the short term. Web APIs commoditize platform and hardware features. Browser content doesn’t contribute to user lock-in and takes away from exclusive apps where Apple generates revenue. We’ll probably see WebXR wh
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by dmarcos 3y ago
Important to mention. Team at Mozilla was affected by layoffs a couple of years back and the WebXR viewer is no longer maintained. Ships an old version of the WebXR API. Don’t recommend as dev target
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by dmarcos 3y ago
If you want Apple involved they don’t like working under Khronos. IP disputes in the past. See also WebGPU API started as WebVR, was renamed to WebXR since now accommodates more than VR (AR, MR…) I worked with Vlad at Mozilla in the early W
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by dmarcos 3y ago
I would have preferred to see the shortcomings of train addressed. There has to be some if people prefer flying e.g Make train cheaper, can take long distance train straight from airports, more frequency, can book an itinerary that includes
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by dmarcos 3y ago
Yes. Thinking about what factors make people choose plane over train and address those would have been better. People will freely choose the better option.
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by dmarcos 3y ago
Many bought, few use them. Only a handful of games have significant traction afaik. VR today is just at most a very small niche of gaming.
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by dmarcos 3y ago
Yeah. Apple enters when there’s clear product-market and out-executes everybody. For the watch, notice that fitness trackers (Fitbit) were already getting popular.
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by dmarcos 4y ago
Yes. Never been easier to build a browser than today with great open source engines. Writing an engine from scratch is the hard part. Extremely labour-intensive to build and then maintain. People usually conflate both. edit: clarify
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by dmarcos 4y ago
mp3 players, smartphones (blackberry, palm) and smart watches (aka fitness trackers) existing and growing markets with product-market fit before Apple entered. Apple MO is waiting until there’s clear adoption (usage, not only device sales)
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by dmarcos 4y ago
Presumably a lot of value is missing from face to face interactions on the Internet. AR / VR are a better approximation: body language, shared 3D space… Just stating VR / AR selling point. I’m personally not fully convinced.
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by dmarcos 4y ago
GDC took place last week in SF . Is it also at risk, does it have good reasons to still exist? edit: typo
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by dmarcos 4y ago
As I mentioned in another comment. I haven’t seen any public confirmation from signatories. FWIW, Sam Altman was in the list yesterday. Now removed.
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by dmarcos 4y ago
Noticed Sam Altman was in the list yesterday too. Now removed. Has any of the high profile signatories confirmed publicly?
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Bigscreen Beyond – Small VR Headset(twitter.com)
170 points by dmarcos 4y ago|180 comments
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by dmarcos 4y ago
Figma. Definitely broadly used. There’s also a whole universe of Web based names (see facebook). In the VR niche I maintain https://moonrider.xyz/ that has had 100k MAUs sustained for 2+ years. Not sure if it qualifies as l
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by dmarcos 4y ago
Exactly. We’re in ChatGPT honeymoon but incentives to share info moving forward unclear. Could see big model owners paying for exclusive access to content / data hindering the free distribution of information and becoming like the old
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by dmarcos 4y ago
That’s my main fear. Not the fairness / unfairness but that people might be less willing to share info and a lot becomes inaccessible / secret.

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