"Ukraine mounted a frontal attack into a Russian minefield. Here's why that's genius." Energy.
Spend the equivelant of a used car on a cutting edge VR headset
Can only play iPad games.
Damn, you can get used cars for $3500? Damn, the floor is like $10k cad (7500usd?) here for something that runs and drives. Registerable can be an extra bit more. Everyone here "knows what they have" and is gouging way above value.
Damn, the floor is like $10k cad (7500usd?) here for something that runs and drives.
The fuck?? In Europe you can find decent stuff for 4k€ or something. American dream moment
The car market in NA was already bad and got super fucked by COVID supply chain issues that never really got fixed
Also made worse by our protectionist car import regulations. Can’t get any of those sweet $5k Asian made cars
My 2003 Honda CR-V is probably worth ~£1000 if I were to sell it today, and other than a dead AC, it runs perfectly fine.
None of the vehicles i've owned were ever over 5 grand, but i also have an absurd amount of luck when it comes to deals.
Don’t think they can even do that lmao. I was watching a coworker scroll through its homepage and literally every picture or video was just people doing video conferences or working at home lol. I don’t think I saw a single entertainment product advertised.
I think I recall somebody playing plants vs zombies, but yeah, its largely just an iPhone in a ski mask from what I've seen it actually do so far.
Just utter fuckin nonsense, and these people have the gall to call other people NPCs
I love that they're still using Steve Jobs on their media. The man has been dead and buried for over 12 years, but his ghost still haunts the minds of these dorks.
The problem with ar is that it’s promise isn’t improved quality of life for white collar workers, but increased productivity from the skilled labor pool by allowing a carrot and stick approach of huds with condensed centuries of experiential information and an unprecedented level of tracking.
The goal is to make it easier to slap anyone into a position that would currently provide a decent wage by giving them a computer that says “described symptoms indicate probable seal failure” & highlights the bolts to take out in robocop dick shoota vision and then beeps insistently when they’re on smoke break too long.
But they need to develop the technology first, and white collar workers are willing to buy and use the thing but can’t provide the kind of feedback that developers are looking for.
TFW you know the seal is fine and you can obviously see the cracked housing is leaking, but your face-computer makes you waste 15 minutes fixing the wrong thing. And then it complains you're the one wasting time when your break is 45 seconds longer than the legal minimum.
I see AR being used a lot in manufacturing, and mechanic roles in particular. Boeing, for example, uses Hololens with it's mechanics to simulate airplane repairs.
Microsoft is really the only company targeting AR at the blue-collar worker, while most of the other AR companies target those white-collar workers.
There’s a lot of bad stuff you can say about Microsoft, but you can say “this is where you need to be, it it’s not gonna turn a profit for a decade.” And they have a better chance of recognizing the wisdom than many other big tech companies.
Fantastic long term vision hobbled by awful short and medium term thinking and an unwillingness to abandon existing userbases.
Maybe it does dox me... we are using AR for power plant related tasks with some components for which we have service contracts with a third party and the manufacturers. Really does increase productivity quite a bit, still in most cases the people 30 years on the job and who know the machines well after decades on them can deal with most, too. However not always and there are a couple of them who do not actually have a mental model of the machinery and they could profit from that, too.
Tools can emancipate us, or be pressures on wages and the labour class. The question is who controls them, how they are used and in most countries also what kind of policies alter their usage.
I'm not sure if Boeing is a great example of doing good aircraft repair work right now. Maybe they should take the fucking VR googles off.
They kinda are tho. None of the current issues were caused by improper repairs, and Boeing's mechanics do a fairly good job. Most of the issues either stem from corner cutting in design or shoddy manufacturing. Spirit AeroSystems is the company that made the door and fuselage assembly in the most recent issue. They were originally part of Boeing, but in 2005 were sold to an investment firm.
this things selling point being nothing but "a screen you can't look away from" genuinely feels like a tipping point for the way consumer electronics are going
Consumerist copium is some strong stuff when taken with billionaire boot leather
What's the explanation they give?
I looked at this thing last year and it was pretty obvious it's not intended to compete in the VR market, it's intended to be a platform that is used by enthusiasts alone. The intent seems to be to use it to build an app base that will then go on to be the foundation of a mass market AR device that they intend to release later.
If that's the explanation in the video I agree with it. But I dunno, they might have a totally different explanation. The general point is that you can't release an AR device to a mass market by itself with no apps though, so you need a strategy to get apps made beforehand, especially as the Google Glass strategy was already a clear failure.
Yeah, this is really just an expensive devkit. Pretty sure the Quest Pro had the same idea behind it.
I know a guy who interns at a tech company and his whole job for the last six months was making an app for this thing, so at least some people are trying to get ahead of the curb
“The Vision Pro is bad” But that is also good?
I’m tired.
I think it’s a neat/best vr headset, but I think most of the spacial computing stuff is dumb.
Having your emails floating above your desk in the office is stupid.
Useful things for augmented reality - pulling up diagnostic/data on things by looking at them like in a video game. Helping me find the wall-stud and level things.
It’s kind of stupid tech.
You will be able to do enter data into spreadsheets and make sales calls in VR
It's so fucking funny that you've invented this audio visual immersion pod, completely encapsulating yourself in an artifical world, and the best tool for organizing your work is still just digital graph paper.
The Medicis had "a big dark room full of ledger books" 600 years ago. Now you can live like a medieval Italian accountant for the low, low price of a month's salary.
The people buying this probably won’t be missing that monthly salary. Usually tech reviewers and the dumbest, richest rubes
The real secret of Apple's success is knowing the astronomical costs some suburban dork will pay for the newest toys.
Even then, these devices keep getting tried and they keep failing. Better off putting one of those hologram projectors on the next iPhone, tbh. That's something you can show off to your friends, at least.
Stud finders cost like $8, you can probably get a shitty level for the same price, sometimes I just measure from the ground and mark two points with a pencil.
I was posting pre coffee, I’m sorry. your phrase was great. We are on the same page.
The best things people can come up with for the $3500 headset that had millions spent on research.. is.. maybe $20 of stuff.
The tech is Neat, but it’s really only good for entertainment.
it's the whole tech foward thing that has gripped many people, where they assume more tech = more better
There's very, very good applications for tech, I ain't exactly conservative about this, but so much of it is just applying computer to problem thats easily solved without computer
It’s interesting how the AR workspace is easily the most appealing feature for me, yet I see plenty of people see it as silly.
I’m likely a silly person I guess.
You can do that with windows / meta quest 3.
This is better.
But there are only so many different things you can actually look at before your brain isn’t really looking great.
Or you wanting that space as a work-around for bad UI designs.
The counterintuitive secret 5D chess genius archetype and its consequences
Sweaty? Like "perspires too much"?
Or sweety like "my sweet summer child"?
Sorry, ND and I overthink stuff like this.
“sweety” used to be a common false endearment to condescend to people on Twitter and people began to make fun of the practice by intentionally misspelling it
Thanks! I appreciate the context. Never would have understood and it would have confounded me.
