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The reality is that it was always unlikely that Microsoft (or Meta, or Google, or Apple…) would be able to create disruption in AR, VR, etc. on the magnitude of the initial iPhone release. Better to keep their powder dry to acquire the startups that potentially can.
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> Your downside is never capped, of course. Surely your downside is capped at zero?
W2 work feels more stable and secure than startup land. If you worked for Google for 20 years you don't expect to be let go with no notice by an automated system. But that is exactly what happened to thousands of people just now. You kind of expect this kind of thing in startup land. Recent events show this downside is not unique to startups, and can affect any worker anywhere. It's chilling, and it should take some…
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VRChat is winning VR. Despite there being a few alternatives (Neos, Chillout, etc.), nothing reaches the scale of VRChat's community, platform, and developer ecosystem. Whoever buys VRChat wins VR.
There's also Rec Room, with a similar number of monthly active users. More numbers can be found at https://www.metaversed.consulting/blog/metaverse-universe-q1...
Together they basically make up a basic Meta Verse already.
AltSpace and many others were actually pretty comparable technically, for a time anyway. Just never hit critical mass
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Or mute them, which is an excellent solution.
Which is a solution that scales extremely poorly in a global environment with potentially billions of people you might want to mute. More so in an environment which supports anonymity, so that they can just keep creating new accounts.
I can imagine that the same way you have a shared list of undesirables. Essentially an assholeblock instead of adblock.
I really wanted to use HoloLens for remote support. Too bad they never really looked like they would support it for wider use. We are a small company that sells very complex equipment to labs around the world. The users are smart / PhDs, they just need to be told what to do to fix things when they need an adjustment. This is large physical scientific equipment and the stuff requires 'hands-on'.
To help make lemons into lemonade, we're hiring for folks into webgl2 for the next gen of our GPU client GPU cloud visual analytics engine used by analysts to investigate problems like cyber incidents, fraud, misinfo, global supply chains, etc. We're targeting another 10-100X scaleup through this effort. The first gen led to us writing Apache Arrow's JS tier and helped start Nvidia's popular RAPIDS GPU dataframe project, and we're expecting more hackery needed for this one again.
Should be a lot of fun for the right person, gdoc linked @ https://www.graphistry.com/careers
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On the other hand, it seems most of the low-hanging fruit has been picked over the last couple decades. What is left for a random small business with software talent to do?
One example. It is my personal belief is that social media is ripe for disruption in ways we have not imagined yet. Clearly centralized, ad-revenue driven psuedo-monopolies are a big problem. I actually believe there is a parallel problem with software engineering that has focused on larger piles of cloud-hosted complexity that has far outstripped the ability of anyone to hold it in their head. These two things are,…
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Startups will be out of reach of many in the US until we have a much more robust baseline of public services. First and foremost being health insurance of course. I would love to start the kind of lifestyle (or "non-scaling" as you put it) business, but right now it's a complete non-starter for me because getting a health insurance policy for my entire family would be comically expensive. It's even been harder for me…
6 months of FAANG severance is better than 2 years of government social safety net, even with a good government.
The cost of catastrophic situations is still ultimately too high in the US without or with insurance.
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Or mute them, which is an excellent solution.
Which is a solution that scales extremely poorly in a global environment with potentially billions of people you might want to mute. More so in an environment which supports anonymity, so that they can just keep creating new accounts.