The History of the Future – HarperCollins
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The History of the Future – HarperCollins
There is an easy seductiveness to stories that cast a technology as brand-new, or at the very least that don’t belabor long, complicated histories. Seen this way, the future is a space of reinvention and possibility, rather than something intimately connected to our present and our past. But histories are more than just backstories. They are backbo
... See moreGenevieve Bell • The Metaverse Is a New Word for an Old Idea
- Trae is a VR enthusiast and a voracious reader
- Most of the future VR technology is limited by physics
- There is basic science research that must advance before Ready-Player-One-type VR technology will exist
- However, it is possible to build single-purpose VR devices today that do really cool things
- Trae wanted to build a VR dev
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy on Apple Podcasts
Consequently, products for those invested in the future of the metaverse will become increasingly popular (VR hoverboards, digital sneakers, and more) as non-gaming platforms adopt the infrastructure of games, from identity to narrative to game-based mechanisms for achieving social status.
Alexandra Sukin • Consumer Predictions for 2022
10 years before the Apple Vision Pro (AVP), I demoed a shitty VR headset at my friend's apartment and it literally changed my life. The Oculus DK-2 was a hunk of plastic, tangled in wires, designed by a teenager, with only a million pixels in each eye. “This is the future.” As undercooked as the technology was, it put me in a crude hallucination, a
... See moreFirst, I believe VR will be a major computing platform, as or more significant than the phone and PC were. Facebook should sell about 10 million Oculus Quests this year. The headset will continue to get smaller, lighter, higher res, more powerful, and with many more and better apps. This will drive exponential growth the same way it did with PCs an... See more
Chris Dixon • Words With Web 3’s King: An Interview With Chris Dixon
The future is history