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Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
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Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tango did, 7 years ago, everything ARKit does today. All they had to do was loss-lead on a showstopper of a phone with one killer app. They basically stripped down Tango to create ARCore, and lost the SLAM space to Apple and Niantic. No one realizes it yet, but this is about as bad as Microsoft losing the web to Google.
Isn't Niantic something from Google? checks https://nianticlabs.com/en/about/ Keyhole made what got renamed Google Earth when Google ate them, ten years later the core of that team started Niantic Labs inside Google, made Ingress, a few years later Niantic left Google (with funding from Google, Nintendo, and Pokemon) and made Pokemon Go. Niantic has acquihired a few companies working in related spaces.
>Google let Niantic go.
Oh, I didn't know that. That's even worse. Niantic is positioning itself to be a competitor to Apple in the global spatial map game.
Explains why Go released on Android first, though. Neat. I hope that doesn't change now that they're running with 6d.ai.
Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
#133I have about as much faith in this as a Twitter API.
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#134Google had the head start here with Glass, and then in classic Google fashion they let it die. I'm always baffled how bad is Google at playing long term games. Their biggest mistake with Glass was trying to productize it too fast and stopping when they saw it didn't have good consumer fit. They could have instead go more incremental by releasing developer hardware and learning from that. They could have kept that pro…
As long as Ads keeps bringing in billions, there is little incentive to think long term.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was that just a random number you threw out? Because it's depressing if even VPs can only afford three Bay Area homes.
I'd guess a VP can afford just one? Median housing price is 3M in Palo Alto.
I mean a good senior engineer is making $450k+ per year, I don’t know what a VP makes but it’s gotta be pretty high? Anyone know?
Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
#136Google had the head start here with Glass, and then in classic Google fashion they let it die. I'm always baffled how bad is Google at playing long term games. Their biggest mistake with Glass was trying to productize it too fast and stopping when they saw it didn't have good consumer fit. They could have instead go more incremental by releasing developer hardware and learning from that. They could have kept that pro…
Even Google Wave could be another example of this. They killed it almost instantly? This was before Slack, discord, etc.
An invite only collaboration tool? How could it have failed!
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd guess a VP can afford just one? Median housing price is 3M in Palo Alto.
I'm guessing Google VPs make ~5 mil a year, given that L8 engineers make ~1 mil a year [0] [0] levels.fyi
There are huge issues with how these salaries are reported. When you include stock compensation especially: what about vesting schedules and taxes? You can leave a job (by choice or otherwise) where you worked for a year and were making "1 million a year" with less than $300k in total compensation.
It feels like a little trick being played on the employees, kind of like unlimited PTO. I'm sure some people actually enjoy the full benefits of what they're promised, but I'd be surprised if that's a majority.
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#138So it seems like the tech giants may be in a race towards creating the "metaverse", or "metaverses". As a kid this would have been an incredibly exciting idea, but instead this kind of news creates a weird feeling in the bottom of my stomach. That's mostly for two reasons: 1. It seems like efforts so far towards creating the metaverse are heavily focused on reproducing the inequalities and status heirarchies we have…
It’s not gonna be like we image it now: virtual places where people gather. It’s going to be the twitter feed equivalent of an online world: tailored to you and your preferences to maximize engagement.
It definitely won't be like Second Life, even though that is exactly what it should be (for better or worse).
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google is unfocused. That's the how the company is designed. It's a federation of VPs, each trying to build a little fiefdom and buy a third bay area house. Sometimes this works well because it fosters competition, but there's a definite lack of coherency.
They wanted a letter starting with A to be the parent company of Google. It should have been ADHD and not Alphabet. /s
:(
Adhd people can be very focused
Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was that just a random number you threw out? Because it's depressing if even VPs can only afford three Bay Area homes.
VPs start at about 2M/year before taxes. That doesn't buy you much in the Bay Area.
I bought a $1MM house in the bay area on a salary 1/10th of that. $2MM/year TC buys you a heck of a lot of house.