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Re: Meta Horizon OS

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Post by OJFord » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 4:42 PM UTC

EVyesnoyesnoyes wrote: post #14

I would really love to see proper educational content from Meta but i bet this is not were the 'next money thing' is. Imagine a catalog of proper real life skills you can actually train reasonable good: - cooking - soldering - welding - Tons of woodworking things - ... You could also go to a lot of makers of tools and offer them to digitalize their products for them so someone can actually exercise with a cheap to su…

Where would that fit in between watching others do it on YouTube for entertainment, and doing it for real where you can hold (or eat) the result at the end?

Re: Meta Horizon OS

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Post by mebazaa » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 4:43 PM UTC

Meta has a lot of work to do on DevEx for non-gaming experiences. Say what you want with the Vision Pro, but it comes with a lot of niceities like SwiftUI. When you develop with the Quest, you're stuck with Unity or Unreal Engine -- it's almost too much freedom to develop simple productivity apps.

Re: Meta Horizon OS

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Post by graypegg » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 4:44 PM UTC

EVyesnoyesnoyes wrote: post #14

I would really love to see proper educational content from Meta but i bet this is not were the 'next money thing' is. Imagine a catalog of proper real life skills you can actually train reasonable good: - cooking - soldering - welding - Tons of woodworking things - ... You could also go to a lot of makers of tools and offer them to digitalize their products for them so someone can actually exercise with a cheap to su…

I really want some good VR train sims. It’s vaguely educational! A standalone quest train sim would be an instant buy for me. Probably not for many other people.

Re: Meta Horizon OS

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Post by nailer » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 4:44 PM UTC

Is this ‘open’ as in ‘we have partners’ or actual open source?

Re: Meta Horizon OS

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Post by not_your_vase » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 4:44 PM UTC

Is it based on some prior art (BSD, Linux...), or a new proprietary OS written from scratch? The post is not too rich in actual information, beside that now other tech-giants can use it too...

Re: Meta Horizon OS

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Post by staticman2 » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 4:45 PM UTC

jerlam wrote: post #7

Feels like Microsoft just tried this with their own VR ecosystem not too long ago and it fell flat on its face.

Microsoft's efforts were pretty half hearted, for example, none of their headsets worked with Xbox.

Re: Meta Horizon OS

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Post by OJFord » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 4:45 PM UTC

mckn1ght wrote: post #3

> Not an actual product render.

It's a silly caption isn't it, why would it be third-person view, nobody's going to see those sketches and assume it's an actual product render, surely.

Re: Meta Horizon OS

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Post by crmd » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 4:45 PM UTC

I wonder if this "opening" of the operating system is their way of putting the metaverse project out to pasture - analogous to donating it to the Apache Foundation - without admitting that the company burned $36 billion on a misadventure.

Re: Meta Horizon OS

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Post by vineyardmike » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 4:46 PM UTC

notRobot wrote: post #6

blensor wrote: post #2

It's going to be interesting if Google/Samsung will win out or Meta/etc.

What category has Google really succeeded in since the initial era of gmail/Android/chrome? I can't think of any recent successes off the top of my head.

What a weird framing? You say this as if gmail, android and chrome are all dead now. They’re still being used and improved. Even if they didn’t enter new “categories” they’re still in a lot of existing ones and very popular -like hundreds of million of users- even if alternatives exist.

First of all, Google Search has maintained dominance and relevance for decades. That’s no easy feat. They have news, patents, books, LLMs all added into it.

Google has a hugely popular cloud service. Especially if you include Google Workspace.

Obviously YouTube is huge and regularly gets new features. There is a YouTube app for almost every piece of hardware with a screen.

They have a pretty impressive mapping product suite. Everything from Google maps to Google earth and all their GIS products and tools (eg solar panels location SaaS).

The play store is huge. AND They have a huge variety of extremely popular consumer apps like Photos, Music, Home, etc.

Re: Meta Horizon OS

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Post by graypegg » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 4:46 PM UTC

OJFord wrote: post #21

EVyesnoyesnoyes wrote: post #14

I would really love to see proper educational content from Meta but i bet this is not were the 'next money thing' is. Imagine a catalog of proper real life skills you can actually train reasonable good: - cooking - soldering - welding - Tons of woodworking things - ... You could also go to a lot of makers of tools and offer them to digitalize their products for them so someone can actually exercise with a cheap to su…

Where would that fit in between watching others do it on YouTube for entertainment, and doing it for real where you can hold (or eat) the result at the end?

More hassle than a YouTube video, which is already more hassle than an article, but considering we’re talking about mixed reality, the ability to do the soldering, next to a detailed 3D model of exactly what you should be doing, in your line of sight, is a big selling point to me.