2025-10-29
$500/month... Do people not know what getting a cleaning person (who can do 100x the number of things this can) cost? So fucking stupid.
Wall Street Journal
A look at 1X's $20K Neo humanoid housekeeper robot, controlled remotely by a human with a VR headset, available now for preorder, with delivery expected in 2026
1X's Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
2025-10-17
This is why I'm staying on Win10, and when I can no longer stay on Win10, I am moving to Linux. Fuck this nonsense.
The Verge
Microsoft adds new AI features to Windows 11: Copilot Voice, with a “Hey, Copilot!” wake word, and Copilot Vision, which can scan the screen to help the user
where AI is built into the tools people already use every day. With today's updates, every Windows 11 PC becomes an AI PC, with Copilot at the center, ready to help you think, crea...
This is why I'm staying on Win10, and when I can no longer stay on Win10, I am moving to Linux. Fuck this nonsense.
CNBC
Microsoft says it will bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete some tasks on files in Windows 11, to the Windows Insider Program and Copilot Labs
On Tuesday, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10, the operating system it introduced 10 years earlier.
2023-12-22
To be honest, this platform died on the day it launched. They lied about system requirements out of the gate. They shipped with weird and broken input overrides. They never made the software work reliably/correctly for the stuff folks used it for. Dead for 6 years.
Windows Central
Microsoft plans to deprecate Windows Mixed Reality and remove the feature in a future Windows update; most Windows VR headsets launched between 2017 and 2021
Well... on the plus? side, that's a few fewer HMDs one has to worry about testing for for a PCVR release...
Windows Central
Microsoft plans to deprecate Windows Mixed Reality and remove the feature in a future Windows update; most Windows VR headsets launched between 2017 and 2021
2023-10-09
@SadlyItsBradley Given that there's basically no MR content, they'd be insane to sell it without controllers.
Bloomberg
Sources: Apple is trying to make the next Vision Pro more comfortable to wear and Meta is aiming to release a cheaper Quest in 2024 and true AR glasses in 2025
Apple's Vision Pro and Meta's Quest 3 haven't even been released yet, but the two companies are already deep into work on follow-up products.
2023-07-13
The Roblox announcement means the era of small paid indie games on VR is closing. Every product will now be value-compared against high volume, high contact hour free content. Most folks will not be able to out-compete children/teens working basically for free w. huge free time.
The Verge
Meta says Roblox is coming to Meta's Quest 2, Quest Pro, and Quest 3, starting with an open beta on App Lab “in the coming weeks”, with cross-platform support
Jay Peters / The Verge :
2023-04-11
If you'd like to have an aneurysm, this is a fantastic read of a thread. https://twitter.com/...
@molly0xfff
[Thread] A look at a report from FTX debtors on the company's control failures, like awful recordkeeping, lying about using cold wallets, and sloppy key storage
Document #1242, Attachment #1 Mark Timmis / Coinmonks : Curious Cryptos' Commentary 10th April 2023 — FTX FTX : FTX Debtors Release Report on FTX Group's Control Failures Martin Yo...
2023-04-10
If you'd like to have an aneurysm, this is a fantastic read of a thread. https://twitter.com/...
@molly0xfff
[Thread] A look at a report from FTX debtors on the company's control failures, like awful recordkeeping, lying about using cold wallets, and sloppy key storage
The new team in charge of the FTX bankruptcy have released their first interim report on the failures of control at FTX and related businesses. It's 43 pages long, let's go through...
2023-01-04
Not that I'm an apple customer in the first place, but seeing that the only option for this this is airpods is saddening. As someone prone to ear infections I can't use any in-ear hardware. Fun to find another axis of being excluded from future shit. https://twitter.com/...
MacRumors
A report details Apple's AR/VR headset: a ~$3,000 price tag, Sony Micro OLED displays, manufacturer Pegatron assembled thousands of prototypes in 2022, and more
2022-10-15
Reminder that the core benefit that Carmack provides Meta, from a community/brand standpoint, is being the reasonable but critical Smart Guy™️ that voices nerd complaints to give you the experience that your views and expertise are respected by Meta when they are absolutely not.
Kotaku
Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”
Parmy Olson of Bloomberg was not impressed with Meta's announcements at Connect 2022: James Troughton / TheGamer : Meta's Virtual Leg Update Was Actually Motion Capture Jonathan Va...
2022-10-14
It's the Multinational Tech Company version of the classic table scam, where you walk up and see someone winning a gambling game, but the person in question is just a friend of the dude running the table but for projecting company vision & competence.
Ars Technica
Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack expresses heavy skepticism at pushing for avatar fidelity, focusing on the Quest Pro to drive VR adoption, and more
Reminder that the core benefit that Carmack provides Meta, from a community/brand standpoint, is being the reasonable but critical Smart Guy™️ that voices nerd complaints to give you the experience that your views and expertise are respected by Meta when they are absolutely not.
Ars Technica
Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack expresses heavy skepticism at pushing for avatar fidelity, focusing on the Quest Pro to drive VR adoption, and more
Reminder that the core benefit that Carmack provides Meta, from a community/brand standpoint, is being the reasonable but critical Smart Guy™️ that voices nerd complaints to give you the experience that your views and expertise are respected by Meta when they are absolutely not.
Kotaku
Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”
A subsequent statement from Meta says ‘the segment featured animations created from motion capture’
It's the Multinational Tech Company version of the classic table scam, where you walk up and see someone winning a gambling game, but the person in question is just a friend of the dude running the table but for projecting company vision & competence.
Kotaku
Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”
A subsequent statement from Meta says ‘the segment featured animations created from motion capture’
2022-10-07
Newsflash: the issue with Horizons in the context being talked about here isn't that it's not ‘good’. It's that it's not useful. This shtick has been around for 20 years now. ‘Generic’ virtual spaces in work contexts are time wasting gimmicks. https://www.theverge.com/...
The Verge
Internal memo: Meta's VP of Metaverse says Horizon Worlds is suffering from too many quality issues and even the team building the app isn't using it very much
Meta's VR social network Horizon Worlds — the company's flagship “metaverse” app — is suffering from too many quality issues …
2021-06-25
You know I thought a bunch of the stuff in Westworld's 3rd Season was heavy handed, over the top, and way too on the nose.... and fuck I already don't feel that way now... https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
A look at Premise, an app that pays users around the world for tasks like taking photos, and has clients like US military using the data to gather intelligence
The Premise app pays users, many in the developing world, to do tasks like taking photos and completing surveys for clients including the U.S. military
2021-06-23
Either way, the obvious thing for FB to do in this situation would have been to field test their ads bullshit in their own fucking games first, so that if anything has gone awry, they would have been the sole receiver of said blow back.
UploadVR
After agreeing to be Facebook's first VR ad test partner, Resolution Games says it won't move forward with the test in its paid VR game Blaston
Either FB genuinely didn't think there'd be blowback to the Blaston vr ads thing, in which case they're just bad at being a platform steward. Or they did and decided it'd be better to have a 3rd party catch the buckshot, in which case they're a horrendous platform steward.
UploadVR
After agreeing to be Facebook's first VR ad test partner, Resolution Games says it won't move forward with the test in its paid VR game Blaston
2021-06-22
Either way, the obvious thing for FB to do in this situation would have been to field test their ads bullshit in their own fucking games first, so that if anything has gone awry, they would have been the sole receiver of said blow back.
UploadVR
After agreeing to be Facebook's first VR ad test partner, Resolution Games says it won't move forward with the test in its paid VR game Blaston
Resolution Games won't be moving forward with a Facebook advertising test in its paid VR game Blaston. — The studio may still consider testing ads in its free fishing game Bait!