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.
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 moreThe use of LLMs to turn 100 pages into 50 pages will allow people to read faster. The use of 3x speed on podcasts will allow us to consume more. Smart Glasses, like Meta’s Orion, or headsets like Apple VisionPro — while years away from becoming mainstream technology — will allow us to watch more movies, play more games, and complete more goals. The... See more
Posting Nexus • Here's What the Fight for Your Attention Really Looks Like
But the feature that ultimately sold the industrial designers on the project was a concept for an outward-facing screen on the headset. The screen could display video images of the eyes and facial expressions of the person wearing the headset to other people in the room.
The Information • The Inside Story of Why Apple Bet Big on a Mixed-Reality Headset
Google wants to be your guide in the real world, and their flagship augmented reality device, Google Glass, is a pure distillation of the company’s goal to “organize the world’s information.” While Glass was famously a consumer failure, it still exists for enterprise use, and the high price tag will come down over time, making it more accessible. G
... See moreEric Redmond • Deep Tech: Demystifying the Breakthrough Technologies That Will Revolutionize Everything
It’s hard to imagine Meta as good for us if you just look at Facebook today, statically. Taking Facebook and making it 3D and immersive would blow. Imagine living inside this hellhole