Sure, if they had created for example a ‘second life’ clone with a very lax custom content policy it would have drawn in the pervert community to build their dream harem / larp orgies AND the house builder / interior design community AND the second life larper community.
The question is, if big companies would still have wanted to advertise there. At least the virtual land would have been a bit more interesting.
I mean, it was doomed from the beginning. There was no vision, no problem to be solved, no benefit for the user.
Why would the world need this VR space? For meetings or chats? We have virtual meetings and this adds nothing of value. For games? The graphics are bad (to allow more people to use it) and there are better VR games. For companies to advertise? You would need something to get people to go there.
They should have created a benefit for the user first and if that is successful add more.
They could have started with a Sims clone or a WOW clone to get people interested and invested before adding the rest. Selling virtual land only makes sense if it’s worth something.
One is a 6 month travel vacation, the other is 5 hours of boredom in cramped space. And before that comes waiting for the flight, stress with boarding, TSA, jet lag,…
And you are supposed to ignore all that and work normally the next day. Or perhaps on the same day, or even on the flight.
I have a similar theory about star trek. In one scene there was a blurry picture and to sharpen it Ricker said: “Computer implement recursive Algorithm”. That is equivalent to “Computer do something”. So now my theory is that there is an intelligent ship with a genius AI that carries around humans that have regressed to toddler intelligence because the AI does everything for them.
The ship is basically human daycare with lots of blinking buttons and moving pictures to keep the humans occupied while the ship does the actual (and probably boring) science.
Starfleet Academy is basically teaching them technobabble and looking great in a uniform while the AIs do the real work.
The guillotine was invented as a painless execution. The axe or sword were often not deadly with the first try.
Oh really? Didn’t someone in the Linux community notice a backdoor in the code because it delayed the startup by something like 200ms?
That’s a lot of words to say “please spit in my food”
These AI PCs/Notebooks aren’t even able to run the really big models. For those you’d need a 5000$ card. And for the smaller models a good graphics card is often enough.
For a real AI PC we would need new technology or graphics cards with more ram (the last one would suprise me with current ram prices)
Oh, the US is doing a war crime again? Must be a day that ends on ‘y’
He was a lousy shot, but a great butcher
You thought they would research how to make life better, while they researched how to get more value from the customer.
Could have been worse. He could have pitched a tent in the last picture.
I, for one, ain’t creeped out by fictional pedos while real pedos are in power.
No, I just think people have different taste and different thresholds when to call someone ugly
I have never heard a guy decline a girl because she is poor.
Because she is fat and/or ugly? Sure.
I also don’t think you should date someone you find ugly. While sex is not everything, it’s an important part in most relationships.
There are two ways to interpret this comic:
men are incapable of giving complements for anything but looks.
her looks are the only thing worth praising
There are two bubbles. One is the bubble made by every company under the sun trying to shove AI into their product without any sense of why or how. And wallstreet is buying it up.
Then there is the second bubble. That is the big AI players trying to get AI ready to replace large parts of the workforce. It’s still unclear if that is possible with our current techniques or if we need a scientific breakthrough that might be years or decades away. Still, the tech companies spend money as if that is just around the corner.
Who knowes if these bubbles burst at the same time?
Oh please, it can do so much more: save the economy, fix healthcare, combat global warming, reduce racism,…
Ah, that explains a lot: the name is cursed
And why is that? Perhaps because productivity rises while salaries stagnated? Because the 1% bleed the rest dry? Because all laws and tax codes are written for the wealthy?
No, it’s because of immigrants (somehow)! /s
Same. I was one of the original kickstarter backer. Never touched it again after the meta account got mandatory.
I might get the Steam Frame and see how much has changed in the VR space.