Meta is a rest home now. A landfill overflowing to the brim of stupid, prayer requests, vacation validation posts and misinformation. What made them think young people would rush to their VR wonderland?

Who here remembers the fire phone!?

I read an engineer’s perspective about it. They were all thoroughly confused thinking what they were making would NOT sell but bezos was making personal declarations on what to put into it and how well it would sell. They felt like betting against the guy that built amazon .com from scratch was a bad idea and that he knew what he was doing. It was an abysmal embarrassment. And now we have this meta verse thing everyone agrees is pointless.

Just another example of billionaires doing one thing and thinking they can do everything after the megalomania is reinforced with the big bank account and yes men everywhere.

That's what Apple does - wait 2 years after a good new design is released then produces their own claiming they invented it in the first place.

Samsung's Fold phones are fantastic - ~2/3 the size of a tablet when unfolded so great for browsing, reading etc... but folds up into a (thick) phone size that fits into a pocket easily.

Zuck bet everything on this and it's DOA. Lol

whole market is down today.

> DSLR cameras would not be possible at scale.

I don't think you understand what DLSR means. DLSR stands for digital single lens reflex camera. Before in sensor phase detection was possible, or laser range finders were possible, a separate sensor chip was used for focus. For this separate chip to work with the actual imaging sensor, a prism was mechanically raised into the path of the image to allow for autofocus, then quickly moved away at the moment of capture.

DSLR is a mechanical kludge to work around technical limitations of the time. It is more complex and requires more parts than modern cameras. If there was a supply chain problem, DSLR's would be harder to make than modern cameras. My main camera is a DSLR. But it is obsolete.

The Paperoid uses a ESP32 cam board that has a fixed focus lens. It is not a DSLR. Pretty much any cheap sensor is better quality than the ESP32 cam. Raspberry PI has a new autofocus sensor that's far better. The method of focus is irrelevant to the imaging (sensor) and storage/display (lcd or epaper) of photos.

I dunno, I think if the software was better it could be a really cool opportunity to keep a WFH environment, but providing a space that feels more personal and connected to do collaborative work

No. There's not. It's a lot of corporate FOMO - businesspeople making decisions because they want to be pioneers and find the "next big thing," and this technology lends itself well to meaningless buzzwords and pie-in-the-sky fledgling economic "opportunity." But there's nothing interesting or convenient or exciting about it. We've had online communities for decades, and it's not the mere fact that they're virtual that makes them popular. It's because of the fun and interesting stuff you can do with them. MMOs, chat rooms and forums, online games, e-commerce, etc.

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Bruh there’s like 15 bajilion used film SLRs and range finders + mirrorless cameras + point and shoots + digital range finders. Literally could do anything else besides a dslr and take better photos than this stupid solution for a problem that doesn’t exist. If people want analog experiences they should use analog technology. Using digital to replicate analog (poorly) is a waste of time imo. It would be interesting as an interactive art exhibit. As a product it’s e-waste

It’s almost like the Metaverse was nothing more than a bullshit buzzword all along. Imagine that.

this man pr0ns

Quite the opposite. But if you say so

You can get a lot more data from a Quest headset than you can from a Facebook account. Some highlights of what's collected according to the Quest's privacy policy:

• Physical details of the user eg height, head and hand dimensions
• Fitness data
• Eye tracking data (not "raw" data - only processed...)
• User facial expressions (again only "processed")
• Environmental information & dimensions (aka. details of the room you use it in)

And it's not about an individual's data being valuable - it's not like Facebook lets you buy access to an individual's data set anyway - it's about what you can do when you have access to millions of individuals' data. Facebook made $113B in advertising income in 2022, or ~$39 per user they have on their platform. Having access to more data like that collected by the Quest means they can more accurately target ads to these users, which of course they can then offer to advertisers for even more money.

Yeah, I saw this coming in mid 2020. Everyone was stuck at home so they either needed a computer for work or school from home, and even if they didn’t they were suddenly finding themselves spending a lot more time on their devices at home. So it made sense to buy a new personal computer, tablet, etc. Now a lot of the market has a 1-2 year old computer and has no reason to upgrade. And with all the power the modern systems have it’s going to be another 3-4 years before sales start to get back to pre lockdown numbers.

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If we suddenly didn’t have access to the supply chain we do now. DSLR cameras would not be possible at scale. So what alternatives do we have once parts run out and prices skyrocket? This, to me, is an exploration of that question.

They work for streaming video, but it’s a pretty painful experience. They’re just to slow to do it well and without lots of lag.

They need to figure out the tech and production before it’ll really be popular. A lot of it, even the 8k stuff is just plain blurry. The depth of field is very fixed. In that sweet spot it looks good, but to close or to far away and it’s very flat looking. They also really seem to struggle with camera placement sometimes. I’ve seen some good parts where they get everything right, but it’s usually only a couple minutes and then something looks off again and throws any shred of realism right out the window. And anything less than 7k is generally unwatchable. But a lot of studios are still only releasing at 6k or lower. And even the 7k and 8k stuff the bit rate is way to low to the point that it looks worse than a decent 6k scene. When they get it right it’ll be amazing, but they still have a long way to go to really get things dialed in.

>I don’t understand how anyone thinks achieving a $450 capable VR headset is a flop at all.

100%, the advancements in VR and AR are astounding really in recent years. the future is going to be a blend of both without a doubt, when and how that will unfold is still wide open.

>Valve working on 3 titles.

They DO just love messing with us, don't they?

That's completely true, but I don't think any company is too big they can afford to alienate the commercial sector, and that's the direction they've been running in for a while now. I didn't use to dislike Macs. They were all we used for a while, lol. Gradually, it was cheaper to buy workstation PCs that could do all the same things. So we did, and they ran somewhat alongside. But as they start to age and wear out, do you replace them for something a year or two better in hardware performance, or do you build out a PC workstation which can either cost less or, for the same money, put out much higher performance? We don't give a shit what color the computer case is, our clients don't care what logo is on the machine, and one of them I can just slap better parts in for years instead of constantly having to buy the latest and greatest.

It’s like 1992 all over again.

As it always was going to be.

“Look, here’s VR to the best of our current computing power!”

People: “WOW1!1!”

“Here’s VR still! Can we have some money!”

People: “No. New shiny things found, sorry.”

VR needs to be a main driver for porn first, then it will fall into mainstream.