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931.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
yeah absolutely. As it stands, it's a dilemma. The Vision Pro is $3500 and still only does half of what I want a headset for. The only saving grace is the Vision Pro is so expensive, I can pick up a Quest for only $500 and it will do t
932.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
it's a huge adoption barrier though The problem is the best apps attach all sorts of weird things to weird buttons. I've given plenty of novices a try of a headset and it's a train wreck with them accidentally pushing buttons
933.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
Lex Friedman is one who used it: https://youtu.be/7KCez6Ocxxg?t=40 So did Marc Gurman: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-28/meta-q... > video pass-through on the Quest 3 p
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
well, it's ahead in the sense that you can walk out and buy one today, and they have 20M devices in the market running these APIs already
935.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
I assume neither of them was a Quest 3 though ...
936.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
yes ... but they "can't wait". If they want it that badly then such a tiny cost would be easily tolerable to get it earlier. Quest 3 pass through is awesome by all counts from the people who have tried it.
937.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
Wow that's a really prophetic take on things - I've mostly written off Palmer Lucky these days but he was bang on the money there. It's interesting though how counter it runs to John Carmack's philosophy where mass marke
938.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
If you really can't wait, just go out and buy a Quest for 1/7th the price and start doing it today. It's a rounding error on what you will pay for Vision Pro and you can get an idea early of what it will be like. (I probably
939.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
So far Meta has published a whole bunch of spatial APIs including scene detection, spatial anchors, plane detection etc. [0] They are far ahead of Apple in many of these respects, but what they haven't had is a device that made this at
940.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
I'm really interested to see how high level the support is for "spatial computing" is in the APIs they are offering. This whole thread is full of people wildly speculating about applications which, without amazing platform le
941.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
I suspect there's going to be a whole new class of disadvantaged / second class citizens in the future who belong to the minority that can't tolerate wearing these type of devices. Having said that, I haven't met that ma
942.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
Supposedly the entire world's production capacity of the micro LEDs Apple is using is about 350k. They are really hard to make.
943.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
Actually particularly shocking that they've sold Google Domains to SquareSpace. I couldn't think of a less aligned company. They deal with novice end users who want to make web sites with minimum technical knowledge but give them
944.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
It is quite fascinating what a reputation bonfire they've held over the last 10 years. I keep wondering when their reckoning will come but they really do seem to be oblivious to it even while they struggle to generate meaningful revenu
945.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
it'll be interesting to see if at that point, federation starts to become the way of scaling or not. If it was seamless, it wouldn't matter where you signed up and they could just host multiple lemmy instances on different servers
946.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
Very surprising indeed. I suppose one can look not just at the absolute numbers right now (or whenever those stats are from) but at the gradient and extrapolate forward. If they can sustain anything like that rate of signups for even a week
947.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
That's the sort of allegation that probably shouldn't be just bandied about without some kind of supporting evidence. Do you have any source?
948.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
The number that matters isn't really what dents Reddit, but what gives Lemmy (or the fediverse as a whole) the critical mass to actually become viable. 27k isn't yet there. If I had to guess, I'd say maybe 200k is where you n
949.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
They might just be counting their instance. These things get way more complicated to figure out in a federated world (which is actually good in some respects). There are at least half a dozen instances where people are going to. EDIT: someo
950.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
Yup. It's the main thing making me want to use kbin.social. Even there I had to use Stylebot to force a wider layout but the default is much better. I can't quite understand what the obsession with narrow layouts is these days. It
951.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
Hosting images and videos has a powerful lockin effect. For example I look to repost things from Reddit and then realise I can't because Reddit is hosting the video. It's additional work to go find the original source and post tha
952.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
Thanks for mentioning kbin - I tried that and it's better than everything else UI-wise. Not quite as good as old Reddit but good enough! Now just to solve the problem that it's a ghost town for the communities I'm interested
953.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
There's a problem with the fundamental underlying argument here, which rests on the notion that all the value of Reddit actually comes from the moderators and the users posting content. The problem is, if Reddit itself has no value, wh
954.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
The Craigslist model? After all, it's a list of links and for years Reddit operated exactly like that - a skeleton crew running bare bones infrastructure to serve up basic pages full of links. Yeah, you need more now because of regulat
955.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
I wonder if the quality of hand tracking was too poor. I remember it was absolutely incredible how fast it improved. And now it's actually really usable - I see lots of comments about how much better Apple's is but I wonder if peo
956.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
> Meta, today, has roughly the right price and is working forward to the right device: Apple has started with the right device and will work back to the right price. I like this analysis, though I think it still misses some fundamentals.
957.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
My guess is that a lot of their magical experience they demo'd is still highly tuned to the specific environments they showed it in.
958.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
Absolute prices matter though right? People's salaries and expendable income is not relative in the end.
959.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
> Tapping your own fingers to click. This was something I brought up to FB/Meta when I was working there, but they decided not to use it that's a bit of a confusing thing to say because that is exactly how you "click&quot
960.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
> watching a movie on an airplane I'd like to know if Apple actually designed for that. Because having watched movies on a plane in a headset, I can tell you that when it does anything other than fly straight and level existing head

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