realharo
Q4 2024 was before all the overt nazi shit.
But I agree that calling it dead is premature.
The killer VR app for me is golf games. GOLF+ and Walkabout Minigolf. It's a great way for me to keep in touch with my parents who live in a different city. It's like a better version of a phone/video call every once in a while (and at $350 with the better headstrap, it's not too expensive for a present)
Ironically this is where the Quest absolutely destroys the Vision Pro, which doesn't have any VR golf (or even minigolf) games as far as I can tell.
VR headsets are basically multiplayer golf simulators to me. Which makes the Vision Pro a golf simulator that doesn't have golf.
With foam mattresses, you need to look at the density of the high-resilience foam (HR foam) that they use. Generally the higher it is, the firmer the mattress will be and less prone to sagging.
It also means it will be a lot heavier and difficult to move around. If the density info is not provided, you can just look for ones they claim are for people who are heavier than your own weight.
Is this an ad for the project? Everything I can find about this is less than 2 days old. Did the authors just unveil it?
Labor automation kind of is a way to lower the retirement age.
Of course how you use it is a matter of politics.
When travel can be instantaneous, location matters a lot less.
Latency is much more critical than bandwidth for any sort of real-time VR.
The title is misleading, to the point of being an outright lie. The quote they put under the heading quotes politicians, not "tech execs". The only quote from a tech exec in the article (Anthropic CEO) is talking about export controls for chips, which is very different from a "great firewall" that the title claims.
A "great firewall" would mean blocking Chinese AI products from being accessible in the US, not blocking exports of US products into China. The article only quotes politicians asking for that, despite what they put in the title.
EDIT: and for context, ChatGPT is blocked in China, while DeepSeek is allowed in the US, to the point of being the top trending App Store app.
Millions of hits may sound like a lot, but you need to view that in context.
I feel like this could be (opinion) the reason why Devin is trying to charge $500/mo for their tool. They know they only have a limited time window until a general-purpose agent from OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/... can directly do everything their product does. So they have to make their money while that gap in capabilities still exists.
10 months is not enough to reliably starve them out, not even in sealed storage. There is still some risk.