Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days
artyom@piefed.social 1 day agocompanies making it always do so in the most abusive, hostile way possible so everyone rejects it immediately as another Big Tech trap
Yes, everyone rejects Big Tech, that’s why the companies are so small.
Apple’s “Apple Vision Pro” vision was actually a reasonable assortment of reasonable ideas
Disagree. It failed for the same reason every headset before it did. The entire concept is fundamentally flawed. No one wants to wear a goofy fucking facemask all day. And I think it’s pretty apparent from their advertising that that’s exactly what they expected people to do.
Meta expected companies to hold business meetings in VR. Why would anyone do that? What’s the point?
Valve certainly understood the assignment by making it a “streaming-first headset” designed primarily to be connected wirelessly to a PC. This just made it way smaller and lighter.
They were also brilliant in developing and implementing FEX so that you can running any X86 Windows game on an ARM Linux headset.
Mikina@programming.dev 1 day ago
I only tested it like twice, on a meeting with my friends when we were working on a game in our free time, but I was honestly surprised how better the meeting went in VR.
Being used to just staring at flat faces on Zoom, you kind of forget how much you are actually missing in the term of expressions. It’s hard to describe, but it just felt a lot better when people are in a 3D space and can gesture around.
The whiteboard tools were also nice, like being able to draw with the pointy end of your controller either on table in front of you, or place a virtual blackboard against your wall at home.
Sure, in-person meetings are better, but this was pretty close to the point where it felt almost as a real meeting.
For standups and the like it’s an overkill, but brainstorming sessions were a lot better.
Of course, we never did that again, because the hassle of setting up headsets is too annoying. But especially for remote teams, I can imagine it being nice for occasional meetings.
It also might’ve just been the novelty effect and it would get old amd annoying soon.