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To: Paul Senior who wrote (71321)10/16/2022 4:58:25 PM
From: petal  Read Replies (1) of 78748
 
I've too begun thinking that maybe Zuckerberg has gone truly mad. (Or just 'lost it', like "lost his magic touch"; gotten so out of touch with everyday people that he doesn't understand what works and what doesn't anymore.)
That said, he made the right call on both Instagram and WhatsApp (both really ballsy/pricey acquisitions at the time). In addition to creating the original cash cow (Facebook). That should probably count for quite a lot, still.

One would hope that some of that R&D will be useful in some commercial way.
It seems that most people who have tried Oculus think it's quite cool. Perhaps it's just one of those cases where someone needs to make the new technology affordable (kinda like Google did with Google Maps; everyone saw the technology's usefulness, but no-one wanted to buy them initially). VR – some kind of 3D experience, seems a quite reasonable development of computers. When we're spending close to 10 hours in front of them, shouldn't we try to enhance the user experience by at least an order of magnitude? The computational power keeps Moore's Law:ing on us, but the basic UX really hasn't kept up (except for better video and audio, which is probably also a Moore's Law effect). A more spatial computational experience should become a reality. The questions are: (1) Will it? (probably sometime) and 2) Will it be done profitably? If so, will it be done by one single company? And if so, will Meta be the one doing it?
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