My 30-year-old wife liked it. I thought it was meh.

I dunno. Imagine this in a line in a book. If you try to fit this into the space of one normal sized symbol it's going to be too small. At best it could work if you turn it horizontally and make it two symbols lengths.

It's not necessarily, but I guess it's possible to be both the beneficiary and the victim.

It's a interesting question. Compare how differently immigrats from Latin American countries to US and immigrats from Latin American countries to Israel are seen in leftist spaces.

Wanting to become a beneficiary of imperial plunder instead of its victim is understandable, but sounds sorta fishy if you put it this way.

Didn't that happen like a year ago?

Didn't he tell him to fuck off on twitter when Musk suggested Ukraine needed to sue for peace on conditions that agree with new Russian territorial claims?

Sure, but why are Ukraine officials hyping up this thing if it isn't useful? No one seems to want to pay for it so there are probably better way to get a cut of DoD money.

Does anyone have a primer on what happened to the whole GME thing? I remember it making waves in like February of the last years, everyone was discussing it, chiming in, making predictions and than it sort of disappeared from the public eye...

What I'm saying they don't even need cutouts. They can pay for those things straight out of the budget.

If the hype is to believed it's kinda working.

Half of the replies to his post are "epic win for the based gigachad" and the other half is "this childish idiot is a Russian asset".

It's the battle of the dog and the frog.

Maybe, but a lot of them seem to have been provided by Pentagon and NATO countries.

Maybe Zuk would rather look like a hentai tentacle monster, but in the end of the day he's trying to sell a telepresence solution for corporate clients so him not going full experimental furry vr chat world on a tech demo is sorta unsurprising.

That's cool. Still, the Quest idea is that just you put on your headset and it is supposed to work without a PC or other gizmos. There's something to it. If I had one I'd be walking in VR all around my grandparents' dacha instead of my tiny living room.

It’s also weird that he’s saying this in public instead of hitting up the Pentagon or Ukraine to start paying their internet bill.

That's the funny part. For some reason he's doing both.

Supposedly third parties paid for 80% percent of the units that were sent to Ukraine, but now Starlink wants Pentagon to pay them for the actual service. Maybe it's just a negotiation tactic...

Interesting. Maybe I'm stupid to assume Facebook has good data on this, but I guess they've figured that for the wide audience they are catering to 'non-sync leg syndrome' can be enough of a problem to go with the initial floating torso thing.

Supposedly having vr legs that don't move in sync with your actual legs gives you a weird feeling most people don't like. To actually track legs and body people use those lighthouse pucks you have to attach to a point you want to track. Each of them costs like $100. Musk claims they've developed an AI model that can track legs just from the cameras on the headset, though the demo in OP is faked through usual motion capture.

You have to pay $5 for 40 minutes and considering how much all those bureaucrats love putting people on hold and how long you have to wait in a queue I'd be out $15 just for yesterday.

Thank you for the extensive write-up. I'll try to figure it out.