The History of the Future – HarperCollins
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The History of the Future – HarperCollins
When the tech fetishist’s childlike hope for a digital womb combines with the billionaire’s faith in a winner-takes-all competitive marketplace, look out. It results in a brand of activist futurism that sees the present—our reality, including us—as an impediment to their vision of what could and what should be.
Douglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
- 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
- In the first six months of 2022, the word metaverse appeared in regulatory filings more than 1,100 times. The previous year saw 260 mentions. The preceding two decades? Fewer than a dozen in total.- The metaverse, a 30-year-old term but nearly century-old idea, is forming around us. Every few decades, a platform shift occurs—such as that from mai... See more
Matthew Ball • The Metaverse Will Reshape Our Lives. Let's Make Sure It's for the Better
Vision Pro is an over-engineered “devkit” // Hardware bleeds genius & audacity but software story is disheartening // What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right // Why...
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Much of VR and AR today center around gaming and entertainment. But we also see immersive experiences emerging that teach empathy.
Rex Woodbury • Cultural Transmission In the Internet Age
ultimately how this is going to evolve in a lot of ways for brands is that this is almost going to seem for a lot of them like the next generation of social media.
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
‘Hardware is hard’: Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth on VR’s iPhone moment and Facebook’s big bets
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