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by dougmwne 3y ago
I think the facts are mostly on Meta’s side, even when you remove price. Meta is on somthing like 8th generation VR. Apple is a newcomer. The impressive Vision Pro tech just can’t stand up to 10 years of iterative product development. It’s
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by dougmwne 3y ago
This is not true. Meta has done a significant amount of work on a range of productivity and general computing use cases. They are clearly exploring VR/AR as a full platform, not just a game console. They have almost feature by feature
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Because it’s an interesting product that many new to VR users would be curious to try. It’s also so expensive that nearly no one will buying it. But they can experience 80% of a Vision Pro media and productivity experience with the Quest 3,
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I am a theist. I also find what you are saying pretty unconvincing. Panspermia theory means there’s basically no bounds on how long ago life may have formed or how many trillions of planets may have hosted primordial soup waiting for the ri
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I agree. AR is dead in the water until we invent magic displays that may be decades away. VR has some nice gaming and fitness applications and I think like handheld gaming as a niche, VR gaming will never take over completely but will alway
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I think it’s a lot more charitable to say that it’s writing for engineers who get excited about ideas. Lots of the ideas aren’t particularly realistic or plausible. The point of the technical sections isn’t for suspension of disbelief, it’s
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Stephenson is an ideas guy. The books are just loose vehicles for all his ideas and things like plot, characters and (gasp) endings are not center stage. There are so many ideas in his books, mountain upon mountain that it’s no wonder some
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I think we have learned not that you can’t think your way to happiness, but that for the sake of the consumer economy and worker productivity it’s best that you don’t.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
That’s quite premature, but even if we are looking at a personal library containing only personal writings, you’d be looking at a massive increase of information on the ancient world, like a neural map of a single ancient mind that containe
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by dougmwne 3y ago
It’s a 270 year archaeological and technological culmination. The scrolls were dug up in 1752. It took the collective developments of the Industrial Revolution, the sciences all our engineering and manufacturing prowess to discover, preserv
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Talking about the mindfulness and friction of opening apps, resizing windows and interacting with buttons is a terrible foreshadowing. The famed and fabled Apple UX magic seems to have possibly jumped the shark. I recall no such awkward fri
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by dougmwne 3y ago
It’s interesting to compare these launch apps to the giant missing catalog of VR experiences on Quest. I see Synth Riders there though. Is there a 3D maps app? I always considered Google Earth to be a killer app that was abandoned.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I have encountered a few real benefits for VR. It’s way more active than a game console. You stand, kneel, punch, swing your arms and break a sweat. It may not be a gym workout, but it’s not half bad if you were otherwise going to be on the
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Everyone reacts differently to VR sickness, but there are a few things you could try. First of all, you should always stop the moment you feel any motion sickness. You more you try to power through, the worse it gets. Don’t do anything with
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by dougmwne 3y ago
GPT-4 is an enormous model that took an enormous amount of training. The big news is that smaller teams are getting close to its performance on a small model that can run on a single GPU. No doubt many of these innovations could be scaled u
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Yeah, the Quest seems to be the spiritual successor to Wii sports. It’s the closest thing you can buy to that 2006 experience. The long dream of wielding a lightsaber on the Wii was finally realized on the Quest, to a quite satisfactory lev
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by dougmwne 3y ago
This is likely not a major issue for the first version. It’s is the general range of other VR headsets. Mostly a decent strap design will make it comfortable to wear for an hour, maybe two. The eye strain from a fixed lens means you won’t w
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Do you have a source on that? I am curious if it’s a widespread issue or very rare.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
It will be interesting to see some side by side comparisons to the Quest Pro which has both the eye and and hand tracking as well. I was disappointed there were no controllers, even as an accessory since it means that most of the VR gaming
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I attempted with the Quest 2 and it was far from doing the job well. Resolution is too low, optics too poor, headset too heavy and uncomfortable, battery too small. I’ve heard Quest 3 is better, but I am still very skeptical that the Vision
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I don’t think that’s likely. It seems that the price is high because Apple wanted the 2030 headset today. If they get moderate success, they will release lower spec versions which will probably not match the Vision Pro for 2 product cycles.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
It seems like it’s also a dev device. Reports are that Apple is working on cheaper versions so the Vision pro provides an early adopter market and high spec device for developers. In a few years when they go for a mainstream launch there wi
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Early reports are that the Vision feels quite heavy to wear. That’s almost certainly going to make it a bad choice for virtual screens for more than an hour or so.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I would have been a lot more aggressive about finding better roles in my early career. I had 2 good experiences for 4 years each, but I could have left both jobs after 1 year and had the same career progression. I think my upbringing focuse
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by dougmwne 3y ago
As a former recruiter, I very much disagree:) Even if a candidate passed a strong technical assessment, there are many other factors and skills that make a person a successful team member. A gap is just one of many possible signals that a p
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Schrödinger’s cat. It’s not illegal till the court looks at your situation and says it is. Companies do plausibly illegal things all day long.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Your brother in law’s situation is quite common. It’s exactly why this is a reliable signal on a resume to avoid or at least not be in the dark on candidates with baggage. There are very few saintly bosses out there ready to rehabilitate so
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Illegal if you do it explicitly. Legal if you do it by proxy criteria and plausible deniability.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
It’s most likely to be brought up by a recruiter during a 10 minute phone screen, and since a tru-hike takes maybe 6 months max, I wouldn’t expect you to get asked. If you went hiking for over a year, I think the recruiter might ask, but th
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by dougmwne 3y ago
It’s not holding you back because you are jumping over the low bar. A year is not a particularly long gap and might even go unnoticed. But f someone noticed and asked, sounds like you had a great answer. That’s all you need. Having no good

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