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So you all have a subscription to theinformation.com? Wow. I can't just buy a subscription for every random "news" site that appears on hacker news.
Where are we standing with open XR? Especially equipment, including controllers? I love XR (=VR/AR/MR), but I still didn't manage a good easy open source way to do that.
What is MR?
There's no getting around the fact that developing AR technology requires substantial investment in R&D. Only companies such as Facebook, ones that employ some of the best engineers and also have a strong incentive to make that investment, are able to pull it off. Whatever product comes out of Facebook under its current business model will be optimized for serving ads. Not necessarily serving the user. This in itself…
This is the age of vertical integration in technology. Truly astounding to see, and not something we've witnessed much of historically. Personally I think a lot of it is being driven by the comoditization of advanced chip fabrication. Now with TSMC you can actually have better manufacturing capabilities than Intel. A situation we've not been in for over 30 years.
Goes in cycles. Xerox, hp, ibm
VR is neat, but I'm absolutely inspired by the idea of improved human-computer interfaces like those described and their more mundane uses. We have eye tracking, the ability to read electrical signals and positioning from hands or head, the ability to feedback to the body through vibration (or sound), and existing high quality peripherals like keyboards for high precision entry and correction. There has to be a way t…
So you all have a subscription to theinformation.com? Wow. I can't just buy a subscription for every random "news" site that appears on hacker news.
Guessing there is some geo-thing or A/B test going on.
Does anyone think AR has the potential to do in the next decade what phones did in this last one?
Glasses can make a viral and sticky form factor that we already have centuries of experience with. If we can build an AR glasses product people want to wear then we have the potential to greatly increase the amount of digital information a human sees and processes. This information can be addictive, like smartphones, and of high utility, like smartphones.
Does anyone think AR has the potential to do in the next decade what phones did in this last one?
being able to overlay information, in context, onto objects that it relates to, will be massive.
But only eventually.
There's no getting around the fact that developing AR technology requires substantial investment in R&D. Only companies such as Facebook, ones that employ some of the best engineers and also have a strong incentive to make that investment, are able to pull it off. Whatever product comes out of Facebook under its current business model will be optimized for serving ads. Not necessarily serving the user. This in itself…
TBC