Welcome to Meta’s future, where everyone wears cameras
@justinryanio I'm imagining a future where we can step into the point of view of any character in a movie or television show and see from their perspective as things are happening.
It'll alter how we experience media forever.
sari added
"The Vision Pro demo video is a Covid time capsule: a parade of solitary, indoor individuals. The brief family scenes are cringe-worthy. My sons get pissed off when I keep my airpods in at a football match, but we’re going to wear headsets at our kids’ birthday parties?" (Scott Galloway, Isn’t That Spatial?)
James Stevens added
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
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Keely Adler added
But if and when such devices are introduced (and no doubt labeled as revolutionary), they will simply be facilitating the perpetuation of the same banal exercise of non-stop consumption, social isolation, and political powerlessness, rather than representing some historically significant turning point.
