Saved by Jonathan Simcoe
The Metaverse Is a New Word for an Old Idea
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 moreIn Chalmers’s vision, we would, as Arendt feared, be trapped in a situation wherein we would encounter nothing but ourselves and those things some of us have made. And it would be altogether likely that we would do so while swaths of our common world increasingly became inhospitable to human life. If so, the burden will fall, as it always does, on ... See more