While cool for the top 5% wealthiest people, I'd be more interested in tech for the other 95% that will actually be affordable.
Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
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#12Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2prsYbV1TkM from Silicon Valley. I imagine the real-world experience will be pretty similar for a long time.
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#13While cool for the top 5% wealthiest people, I'd be more interested in tech for the other 95% that will actually be affordable.
Such an unnecessarily pessimistic comment. How do you think tech becomes affordable? It has to start somewhere and then we go from there...
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#14While cool for the top 5% wealthiest people, I'd be more interested in tech for the other 95% that will actually be affordable.
What is an example of important technology that did not start as something only available to the affluent/connected?
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#15That is really interesting but I can't shake the feeling of it being like visiting hours at the jail.
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#16A good friend of mine at Google is the technical lead of this project (he has a Phd Princeton, and was a professor before joining Google). I've tried it in person and it was truly amazing. They used some very fancy tech when I saw the demo, so I'm thrilled it is finally being announced and possibly shared with a larger audience. Explanation of why it is amazing: It totally fools your perception. No glasses or goggles…
It sounds like they are using this technology or something similar: https://lookingglassfactory.com/8k
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#17It looks like magic, when I saw the video I briefly thought it was a joke (ha-ha, they're actually in the same room!). I wonder how much of the magic is software and how much is hardware?
The video certainly plays up the software, but I've never used zoom or FaceTime in an 8k video call booth before, so I suppose I don't have a point of comparison.
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#18Will be canceled within two years.
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#19While cool for the top 5% wealthiest people, I'd be more interested in tech for the other 95% that will actually be affordable.
Nah, if Google actually went for it for years it would have went down the wealth requirement. The problem is that Google has demonstrated time and time again that it cannot do reiteration grind.
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#20That is really interesting but I can't shake the feeling of it being like visiting hours at the jail.
Yeah, on a certain level it's frustrating if a technology can seem to bring far away to an arm's length away, but not actually any closer.