The name has to be a reference to Snow Crash .
So American pop-sci-fi, not the ancient civilization?
Amazon Sumerian: A way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this may be their first foot in the door towards the inevitable development of a Metaverse/Oasis type VR multiuser environment where millions of people will eventually spend most of their time. The 2nd coming of VR is cooling a bit right now but with the advent of improved hardware I don't see why it won't heat up again reaching mass adoption within a decade.
> where millions of people will eventually spend most of their time. I'll try very hard to avoid that. I'd like computers to evolve in a way that we have to spend less time with them rather than more.
Whether for better or worse, the current trend of smartphone and social media usage implies that this is more likely than not.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
> their new AR device I haven't heard this rumor, care to fill us in?
I'd be interested too, though I'd be surprised if they weren't all at it. Especially those who missed out on the smartphone thing.
Indeed :) Me too... I'm just assuming, given they have a captive audience, the hardware chops to deliver electronic devices at scale and a huge pile of cash, they would be foolish not to be working on it, while Google Glass was a headline failure, the Hololens most certainly is not, it's just received it's safety rating for on site use, the applications I've seen in use in industrial design show that this technology is not going away.
hang on... [edit]
"Amazon working on first wearables to interact with Alexa Company’s ‘smart glasses’ would come with in-home virtual assistant embedded" Sept 20, 2017 oh, look, https://www.ft.com/content/d7862042-9d9a-11e7-8cd4-932067fbf...
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
> where millions of people will eventually spend most of their time. I'll try very hard to avoid that. I'd like computers to evolve in a way that we have to spend less time with them rather than more.
Whether for better or worse, the current trend of smartphone and social media usage implies that this is more likely than not.
Yes, and as I wrote I'm trying hard to avoid it. So far so good.
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#35What's Amazon really trying to do here?
They're interested in AWS use on the backend.
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#36Using email is one of my favorite ways of breaking into an organization!
Usually, I will send out 10 emails to different employees. Out of those 10 people, 5 will click the link that I included. Of the 5 people, two or three will tell me their real work username and password. Pretty scary, isn't it?
Why are they so interested? Why would they give me their passwords? The email that I send does not look like a scam from a rich prince in an African nation. Instead, it looks like a professional email from a company conducting a survey on behalf of the employee’s organization.
Who wouldn’t be interested in filling out a survey about Salary Satisfaction?
Once they click on the link, they are taken to a login page. It is then than an average of 25% of the people emailed submit their passwords.
This is where the fun begins!
If the company is using Microsoft Exchange (email server), I can use their credentials to synchronize a copy of their email onto my computer.
Once it is synchronized, I can create a client-side rule that runs a program every time a certain email is received.
This rule will synchronize over Exchange across all the computers that use that persons account.
Once they receive the special email, my program runs on the victim’s computer.
Another option in which i can use to Hack a computer through email is to send a user a malicious Word document. However, that usually requires building up a context where it would make sense for that attachment to be opened.
Recently, I received a very interesting attachment. It was an obvious attempt to break into my computer using a malicious Word document.
It came at a time where I was needing a more effective payload to send to my potential victims.
I was so grateful to the hacker for introducing me to a new technique that I replied with a thank you note.
The Word document contained an embedded object that appeared to be a another document. But in reality, it was a VB Script that would launch a malicious payload. Fascinating!
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#37Integration with other services is the key. This could help offload some of
the heavy lifting publishers have to deal with around infrastructure.
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#38omg took me some time to find the actual product page: https://aws.amazon.com/sumerian/
Thank you! I've fished around a bit without success.
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#39The name has to be a reference to Snow Crash .
WARNING: "Snow Crash" is a comedy! Over the years people mentioned the book in comments about metaverses and VR. But nobody said it was a comedy. I was buying it with the expectation of getting some serious science fiction about a topic I'm interested in. Instead it starts off with some pizza delivery science fiction parody.
Why can't it be both?
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#40The name has to be a reference to Snow Crash .
WARNING: "Snow Crash" is a comedy! Over the years people mentioned the book in comments about metaverses and VR. But nobody said it was a comedy. I was buying it with the expectation of getting some serious science fiction about a topic I'm interested in. Instead it starts off with some pizza delivery science fiction parody.
Keep reading.