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Ben Tarnoff

@bentarnoff
22 posts
2022-10-15
The Microsoft partnership announced today seems to indicate that Zuck sees the white-collar workplace as a (the?) major channel for wider VR adoption. Wrote something about this last year https://bentarnoff.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-15 View on X
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
The Microsoft partnership announced today seems to indicate that Zuck sees the white-collar workplace as a (the?) major channel for wider VR adoption. Wrote something about this last year https://bentarnoff.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-14 View on X
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’

The Microsoft partnership announced today seems to indicate that Zuck sees the white-collar workplace as a (the?) major channel for wider VR adoption. Wrote something about this last year https://bentarnoff.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-14 View on X
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

2022-10-13
The Microsoft partnership announced today seems to indicate that Zuck sees the white-collar workplace as a (the?) major channel for wider VR adoption. Wrote something about this last year https://bentarnoff.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-13 View on X
The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg touting an “open, interoperable metaverse” stands at odds with Meta using corporate partnerships and case-by-case permissions to build it

Mark Zuckerberg wants to own the future of computing — but not alone.  That's the intended takeaway from this year's Meta …

2022-06-18
eBay is the key to understanding the modern internet. An excerpt from my book in today's @gdnlongread https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2022-06-18 View on X
The Guardian

How eBay, launched in 1995 as AuctionWeb, anticipated many of the key features that would define a “platform” and unlocked the profit potential of the internet

Ben Tarnoff / The Guardian : Tweets: @moiragweigel and @bentarnoff Tweets: Moira Weigel / @moiragweigel : Today, much critical discourse on the internet focuses on search and soci...

2021-11-01
It's true that metaverse-ish stuff has existed before: VR, SecondLife, etc. But Facebook is essentially a state, with state-like resources at its disposal. If DARPA could summon the internet into existence, why can't Facebook do it with the metaverse? https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2021-11-01 View on X
CNBC

In 2018, Oculus' Jason Rubin sent a paper to Facebook executives laying the foundation for Meta's ambitions and detailing the need to own the VR market

- In 2018, an Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a 50-page document headlined “The Metaverse” that he sent to a Facebook board member and some top execs.

A lot of the commentary on Facebook announcement boils down, “it looks like shit.” But I mean, so did the internet in the 80s. Takes a lot of patient funding for technologies to achieve liftoff, which is historically been DARPA's role
2021-11-01 View on X
CNBC

In 2018, Oculus' Jason Rubin sent a paper to Facebook executives laying the foundation for Meta's ambitions and detailing the need to own the VR market

- In 2018, an Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a 50-page document headlined “The Metaverse” that he sent to a Facebook board member and some top execs.

A lot of the commentary on Facebook announcement boils down, “it looks like shit.” But I mean, so did the internet in the 80s. Takes a lot of patient funding for technologies to achieve liftoff, which is historically been DARPA's role
2021-11-01 View on X
The Atlantic

Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break

It's true that metaverse-ish stuff has existed before: VR, SecondLife, etc. But Facebook is essentially a state, with state-like resources at its disposal. If DARPA could summon the internet into existence, why can't Facebook do it with the metaverse? https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2021-11-01 View on X
The Atlantic

Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break

2021-10-31
A lot of the commentary on Facebook announcement boils down, “it looks like shit.” But I mean, so did the internet in the 80s. Takes a lot of patient funding for technologies to achieve liftoff, which is historically been DARPA's role
2021-10-31 View on X
The Atlantic

Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break

You're not losing your mind: it really does just sound like a worse version of the internet. Chris Vallance / BBC : Facebook's metamorphosis - will it work? Andrew Hutchinson / Soc...

A lot of the commentary on Facebook announcement boils down, “it looks like shit.” But I mean, so did the internet in the 80s. Takes a lot of patient funding for technologies to achieve liftoff, which is historically been DARPA's role
2021-10-31 View on X
CNBC

In 2018, Oculus' Jason Rubin sent a paper to Facebook executives laying the foundation for Meta's ambitions and detailing the need to own the VR market

- In 2018, an Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a 50-page document headlined “The Metaverse” that he sent to a Facebook board member and some top execs. Tweets: @kevinroose ...

It's true that metaverse-ish stuff has existed before: VR, SecondLife, etc. But Facebook is essentially a state, with state-like resources at its disposal. If DARPA could summon the internet into existence, why can't Facebook do it with the metaverse? https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2021-10-31 View on X
CNBC

In 2018, Oculus' Jason Rubin sent a paper to Facebook executives laying the foundation for Meta's ambitions and detailing the need to own the VR market

- In 2018, an Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a 50-page document headlined “The Metaverse” that he sent to a Facebook board member and some top execs. Tweets: @kevinroose ...

It's true that metaverse-ish stuff has existed before: VR, SecondLife, etc. But Facebook is essentially a state, with state-like resources at its disposal. If DARPA could summon the internet into existence, why can't Facebook do it with the metaverse? https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2021-10-31 View on X
The Atlantic

Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break

You're not losing your mind: it really does just sound like a worse version of the internet. Chris Vallance / BBC : Facebook's metamorphosis - will it work? Andrew Hutchinson / Soc...

2021-10-30
A lot of the commentary on Facebook announcement boils down, “it looks like shit.” But I mean, so did the internet in the 80s. Takes a lot of patient funding for technologies to achieve liftoff, which is historically been DARPA's role
2021-10-30 View on X
Washington Post

Meta is just playing catch-up as Roblox, Steam VR, VRChat, and other platforms have already developed metaverse-like experiences

In addition to announcing Facebook's rebranding to Meta on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg delivered a number of lofty promises about the metaverse and its features.

It's true that metaverse-ish stuff has existed before: VR, SecondLife, etc. But Facebook is essentially a state, with state-like resources at its disposal. If DARPA could summon the internet into existence, why can't Facebook do it with the metaverse? https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2021-10-30 View on X
Washington Post

Meta is just playing catch-up as Roblox, Steam VR, VRChat, and other platforms have already developed metaverse-like experiences

In addition to announcing Facebook's rebranding to Meta on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg delivered a number of lofty promises about the metaverse and its features.

A lot of the commentary on Facebook announcement boils down, “it looks like shit.” But I mean, so did the internet in the 80s. Takes a lot of patient funding for technologies to achieve liftoff, which is historically been DARPA's role
2021-10-30 View on X
The Atlantic

Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break

In a booth at Ted's Fish Fry, in Troy, New York, my friend Daniel Beck and I sketched out our plans for the metaverse.  It was November 1994, just as the graphical web …

It's true that metaverse-ish stuff has existed before: VR, SecondLife, etc. But Facebook is essentially a state, with state-like resources at its disposal. If DARPA could summon the internet into existence, why can't Facebook do it with the metaverse? https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2021-10-30 View on X
The Atlantic

Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break

In a booth at Ted's Fish Fry, in Troy, New York, my friend Daniel Beck and I sketched out our plans for the metaverse.  It was November 1994, just as the graphical web …

2020-07-14
Critically important piece by @moiragweigel theorizing the new Tech Right by way of: Alex Karp's dissertation, “cultural Marxism,” psychoanalysis, and Adorno https://www.boundary2.org/...
2020-07-14 View on X
boundary 2

An analysis of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's dissertation at a German university in 2002 and how it presaged the work he would go on to do at Palantir

and what it reveals about the new tech nationalism. CW: Contains long, bone-dry summaries of late Adorno. https://www.boundary2.org/... Moira Weigel / @moiragweigel : For years I'd...

2020-02-19
This is a big deal: Kickstarter workers have voted to unionize. This will be the country's first unionized workplace composed of full-time white-collar tech workers. @aprilaser with the scoop: https://www.nbcnews.com/...
2020-02-19 View on X
VICE

Kickstarter employees vote 46-37 to unionize with the Office and Professional Employees International Union

no matter where they work. That includes tech. #SupportUnions https://twitter.com/... @doctorow : Kickstarter workers vote to form first union in tech industry https://www.nbcnews....

2020-01-15
This is interesting: rising trade tensions with the US has pushed Chinese tech to consider relying more heavily on open source, which is exempt under US export controls. https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-01-15 View on X
Financial Times

A look at how US pressure, driven by national security and trade concerns, has led to China seeking increased technological self-sufficiency

The acrimony between China and the US over technology transfers has created plenty of losers during the past year.