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The Inside Story of Why Apple Bet Big on a Mixed-Reality Headset
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Go touch paper: How the Apple Vision Pro turned me from a VR-optimist into a techno-selectivist.
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While emerging technology can woo us with convenience and awe, it risks distracting us from our goals, and devaluing our innately human capacities. Sometimes the way forward is to revert to analog technology. We're entering an age where the
... See moreI’ve talked a bunch about how I think that we should design our computing platforms around people rather than apps and I guess that’s sort of what I’m talking about. On phones today, the foundational element is an app, right? That’s the organizing principle for kind of your phone and how you navigate it. But I would hope that in the future, the org... See more
Mark Zuckerberg • [FREE] An Interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse
As I’m thinking through this, if there is this sort of bifurcation, is it possible that VR actually does end up becoming more important and more meaningful in this future then AR, where AR is a way to keep in touch with the virtual world when you’re out and about, but actually you’re going to want to spend more and more time actually fully immersed... See more
Mark Zuckerberg • [FREE] An Interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse
“One of the things that I hope to do—and that I hope we do in AR and VR—is influence the direction of the next computing platform to be more focused on the organizational principle, making it around people, rather than just tasks,”
Alex Kantrowitz • Always Day One
I care about this existing, not just virtual and augmented reality existing, but it getting built out in a way that really advances the state of human connection and enables people to be able to interact in a different way. That’s sort of what I’ve dedicated my life’s work to. I’m not sure, I don’t know that if we weren’t investing so much in this,... See more