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Extreme panel curvature, new panel sizes, software baked into the display, technologies like quantum dot reaching near-oled quality at a fraction of the price.
With rapid progress in AR/VR, traditional display tech improvements are like horse technology advances in 1900.
WebGPU. It’ll be live in Chromium stable this Thursday and will be the biggest step change for browser-based GPU since the original WebGL.
Excited to see WebGPU support for this become stable with three.js! They've been working on it in a beta-state, but I foresee huge perf improvements once it's widely accepted on the major browsers.
Now that the NFT and Meta clown cars have crashed, metaverse work is quietly plugging along. It's a niche, but it may be a Roblox/Fortnite sized niche.
Metaverse is merely premature. AI is the bigger and more general tech wave, but Metaverse will start to crest in 5 years or so.
Think about all the immersive, interactive fiction powered by LLMs and AI. That's just scratching the service of what's possible.
Games, movies, narrative, and social will converge.
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The idea that violence isn't necessarily bad and can also be a force for good is something I think will change the tech landscape. A lot of those people at google who said no to killer robots are probably having second thoughts, being one of those types of people, it certainly modulated my opinion.
New databases. Is probably the most "under the radar" of all. Is interesting how little attention you get from people about this stuff (when talking about implementation or internals). Is like, literally, only make a splash AFTER at-minimun you have something competitive with a major stablished product. But you get more "views" talking about compilers than talking about DBs! (except when talking about compilers that…
Are you talking about vector databases?
Now that the NFT and Meta clown cars have crashed, metaverse work is quietly plugging along. It's a niche, but it may be a Roblox/Fortnite sized niche.
> Meta clown cars Metaverse is merely premature. AI is the bigger and more general tech wave, but Metaverse will start to crest in 5 years or so. Think about all the immersive, interactive fiction powered by LLMs and AI. That's just scratching the service of what's possible. Games, movies, narrative, and social will converge.
The closest you could say was games have a narrative woven in. Movies are passive and everything is intentional. Games are fundamentally about interactivity. They are practically opposite forms of entertainment.
I don't even know what you mean by 'social will converge'.
All the private fusion companies making very interesting progress. https://www.helionenergy.com/ https://cfs.energy/ https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/ https://tae.com/ Insert below; jokes about its being 25 years away, and comments about how it will never work etc
Nah, A(G)I will accelerate that. Give it a few months. Edit: Dang... It was just a joke. (well partially, the timescale should have made it obvious still)
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> Meta clown cars Metaverse is merely premature. AI is the bigger and more general tech wave, but Metaverse will start to crest in 5 years or so. Think about all the immersive, interactive fiction powered by LLMs and AI. That's just scratching the service of what's possible. Games, movies, narrative, and social will converge.
On the other hand, no they won't. People with nothing to write about talked about games and movies converging for years and they never even came close. The closest you could say was games have a narrative woven in. Movies are passive and everything is intentional. Games are fundamentally about interactivity. They are practically opposite forms of entertainment. I don't even know what you mean by 'social will converge…
Here's my prediction:
- Stories, narratives, characters, and game loops will become generative. Their capacity to generate new unseen and unwritten content will be heralded as revolutionary.
- The quality of games and GenAI will soon reach that of Hollywood films and take on a cinematic feeling.
- Players or viewers will be able to actively participate in the unfolding world (games) or sit back and watch them unfold (movies). This will be a spectrum (and not just on a single dimension).
- Narrative instances will be passive, single player, multi player, and massively multiplayer. You can sit back and watch a world unfold with your friends, or each participate as your own individual character that is an immersive and key part of the world. Cooperatively or in competition with one another, and at every point within that that spectrum. This will be similar to D&D, but at a scale never before seen. Wholly engrossing.
- Just like we've seen inklings of with YouTube and TikTok, you'll be able to remix the narratives you construct and participate in. You'll be able to world build, tweak, and share. You'll be able to take off the shelf situations and narratives and customize them as much as you want. Your previous "play through" or "stage time" can be recorded as its own personality that can become an AI agent in someone else's journey.
- This world building scene will be full of creators, musicians, directors, actors, and lots of people that just want to experience and hang out.
- Just as before, I'll throw porn into this prediction too. GenAI porn will similarly replace the manually filmed artifact, and moreover, it'll be interactive. Some people will even fall in love with their artificial companion(s). As this becomes more normalized, these adult AI companions may even find themselves injected into otherwise family friendly narratives. What you do with them at home is your own business.
Before you say it's implausible, I know for a fact that 3d-guided diffusion works and that it'll soon spook the entire Hollywood industry to the core.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711614
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35523656
[3] effectively I have. I quit my $400k/yr job to go full time on this and poured over half a million of my personal funds (so far) into building my company
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> There are a few decent colour e-ink tablets on the market already, for surprisingly low prices ($400-500). Which ones are you referring to? Are they complete and ready to ship products? Or is that a DIY project / kickstarter?
Yes, for example this one: https://onyxboox.com/boox_novaairc
I thought about splurging for a full-color model but wasn't sure whether the tech was there yet. Do you think it's worth the upgrade or should I hold off a little longer?