The glasses pair with your Android phone and can read out notifications, make phone calls, and play audio, including music and podcasts. You can also ask Alexa for rundowns of your calendar, the news, weather, and the usual things you’ve come to expect. A “VIP” filter will let wearers choose which notifications they want read aloud and which should remain only on their phone for later.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 October 2021 23:42 (two years ago) link
The Oculus VR head gear seems like an extremely clunky attempt to replicate the Star Trek holo-deck. The Metaverse, as envisioned by Zuckerberg, seems like he's trying to figure out how to make the Star Trek holo-deck sound like a place where the Enterprise crew would hold exciting business meetings.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 29 October 2021 23:47 (two years ago) link
I remember the first I'd ever heard of VR was around that guy Jaron Lanier in the early-mid 90's, and the goggles he had then look a lot like the Occulus goggles of today
https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/4/2018/08/untitled-e542612.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 October 2021 23:49 (two years ago) link
The Meta thing keeps making me thing of Rhonda Fleming in Out of the Past.
― Fine, Fine, Superfine Career Opportunities (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 October 2021 05:09 (two years ago) link
think the point wasn't that 3D movies suck, but that VR is much like 3D movies, in that it keeps getting revived as an ideayeah, exactly every single 3D movie I’ve seen projected was good and fun*. I’ve seen a cool demo of a VR thingy with iirc semi-generative music by Herbert? but in both cases (afaict) the good examples of the form made by capable ppl on purpose get choked out of the market by things that aren’t rly examples of the form, made by people who aren’t trying to even make anything good. then the market itself implodes due to this.* unless the Zemeckis/Gaiman/Avary Beowulf was one. that is not good, but is terrific fun
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 30 October 2021 06:25 (two years ago) link
i remember when google sent someone out to a festival i was working with Glass and I tried it for ten minutesi imagine i will do this for ten minutes too
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 October 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
How long until we can non self consciously record all of our existence tho
― calstars, Sunday, 31 October 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
seems needlessly redundant
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
Xpost didn't u see that Black Mirror
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Sunday, 31 October 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
Aimless: no one else who tell you this but no one gives a shit what your opinion is.
― calstars, Monday, 1 November 2021 00:31 (two years ago) link
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/29/zuckerberg_meta_facebook/
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 1 November 2021 00:39 (two years ago) link
so kind of you to make sure I was aware. I wouldn't want me to go through life not knowing what a jerk you are.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 1 November 2021 01:29 (two years ago) link
if you wanna fight them you will probably find them...at the bar
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 November 2021 01:55 (two years ago) link
I used to study Classics, and the word “meta” comes from the Greek word meaning “beyond”.
Why is this so funny?
― jmm, Monday, 1 November 2021 02:19 (two years ago) link
I'm not interested until they get the Perky Pat layout finished. The Feelies is a better product anyway.
― earlnash, Monday, 1 November 2021 09:45 (two years ago) link
lol, that was the first thought I had when I saw the announcement, as well.
― knuckleheaded mornonic bafoon (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 November 2021 10:25 (two years ago) link
Sorry aimless…I was out of my mind last night…
― calstars, Monday, 1 November 2021 10:54 (two years ago) link
When I was a kid and I'd visit my grandma in Chicago I remember her taking me to some pier mall thingy by the lake, forget what it was called but it was like a souped up entertainment mall that had mini golf. They also had this VR thing called Battletech, which was a mech war. I would always get really hyped up to play, and then it would feel like this huge buildup, but then it was just kind of an awkward and hard to control video game, although I would be convinced that I was into it and want to do it again anyway.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 1 November 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
Navy Pier
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 1 November 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
this is interesting because i'm convinced that rich man zuck is literally just doubling down on infantilizing himself and his company as the way forward
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 1 November 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
Remember, the video in Infinite Jest that was so fascinating people would stare at it without eating or sleeping until they died was a blurry, infant's-eye view of a woman with big tits leaning down and cooing maternally at the viewer. If someone programs something like that into Meta-vision, or whatever it's called, when it launches, goodbye civilization.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 1 November 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
the video rendering of the space "meetup" has really been sticking in my mind. It's kind of a fascinating artifact of Zuck's disconnect from most people, even moreso than his "just smoking these MEATS" videos. It reminds me of something from a really bad children's cartoon, and his whole affectless way of engaging in how "FUN" he seems to think other people will think it is. And I can't help but think that this is partly a situation of he has permanent control and no one can tell him "hey, this isn't actually appealing, most people don't want to replace going out with being floating robot at a space poker game that is constantly interrupted by dog videos, and also you shouldn't be in this video, because you are unappealing"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 1 November 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
Haha, yeah, he's like Woody Allen playing the love interest in Woody Allen films.
― nickn, Monday, 1 November 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
He's like a super rich dude without kids showing up to a kid's birthday party with the worst or most mismatched toys and games ever. "I bought him a Segway!""Mark, he's only three.""Yeah, well, I'm sure he'll grow into it. Oh, I also got him half a cow, all organic, from a farm I own. He and his friends are going to eat well this summer, that's for sure! Anyway, gotta go, sorry I landed the helicopter on your garden."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 November 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
was a blurry, infant's-eye view of a woman with big tits leaning down and cooing maternally at the viewer.
― kinder, Monday, 1 November 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
knowing DFW, it was probably buried in a twenty paragraph footnote
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
something from a really bad children's cartoon
I echoed this upthread - his Metaverse resembles some Nickelodeon show that was cancelled in 2003
Maybe all this is just too soothe Mark's inner child - a trustworthy robot buddy, and REAL friends that aren't on the payroll to build a fort with
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 1 November 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
Reminds me a lot of Sony's failed "PlayStation Home"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Home
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
infantilization is one of the primary motivations for people who are basically reactionary ime
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
not motivations but .. ways of being i guess
Was gonna say, if there was ever a time to indulge the general public's inner infant, that time is now
― knuckleheaded mornonic bafoon (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
obviously i'm just spitballing but i remember the promise of the internet in the 90s was like .. virtual worlds that would replace social reality with a kind of utopia. anyone who believes that into adulthood.. it's like a different version of people who basically believe that disneyland is real life, that fantasy that they need to be real in order to successfully escape everything else, responsibility etc.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 1 November 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
this is in some ways like an impossibly dumb remake of citizen kane
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 1 November 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
No one who actually wears glasses all the time wants a bunch of AR shit on their lenses. Sounds like another thing that will make me constantly think I need to clean them.
How sick would it be to wear world-occluding goggles and trip over my cat over and over?!
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 1 November 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
I'd visit my grandma in Chicago I remember her taking me to some pier mall thingy by the lake, forget what it was called
Lake Michigan, probs.
― pplains, Monday, 1 November 2021 20:46 (two years ago) link
Haw.
Yet another angle on why this may all be really dumb (via Slate Money): it's not clear that we will actually have sufficient internet speed and bandwidth in most places to run this all the time.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 1 November 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
where? in the world generally? something like a quarter of the world’s population has never used a mobile phone.in the global_north full fibre is available in more and more places and it is essentially a solution without a problem: nobody needs 900Mbs up and down. there is no compelling application for those speeds - yeti agree with ppl who say that things like the metaverse will probably start to exist but they’ll be created by people who are not facebook, it’ll be like, invite-only discord VR chats run by bronies
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
And once again we see William Gibson’s famous quote - “the future’s already here, it’s just not evenly distributed” - come to life.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 03:20 (two years ago) link
"...and also you shouldn't be in this video, because you are unappealing"
They could've paid a few mil and have John Legend or Pete Davidson or whoever we'd actually want to hang out with guide us through the metaverse.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 13:10 (two years ago) link
https://vfxblogsite.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/96489-andysnoke.jpg
"Let me tell you about ... the metaverse."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link
Didn't every episode featuring the holo-deck result in it glitching out so horribly that the Enterprise was in danger of being obliterated?
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
why they kept that thing plugged in is beyond me
A lot of shit went down in the X-Men holographic danger room, too, iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
Red Dwarf's Better Than Life sessions were no picnic either.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 13:35 (two years ago) link
They could've paid a few mil and have John Legend or Pete Davidson or whoever we'd actually want to hang out with guide us through the metaverse.― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, November 2, 2021 8:10 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, November 2, 2021 8:10 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
This raises a good question about which celebs would actually want to attach themselves to Facebook at this point. John Legend did a Super Bowl ad for Google a few years ago, but he's also politically engaged enough to recognize that shilling for Facebook in 2021 might not be the savviest move.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
Ricky Schroeder?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
Kevin Sorbo
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
Alas, banned from Facebook.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
Paul Rudd
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
struggling to think of any professional actor who would be less likable than the zuck tbh
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link