https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62927799-reality-switch-technologies

You’re either very young, or very dumb. It is known that every low-moderation platform quickly devolves into nazism and/or child porn.

I’ve been using nextcloud for years also, self-hosted on Hetzner, as a repository for files for a small company. We are 10 people in total using it everyday to store and share files, and we have a few TB of data in total.

It’s basically having your own dropbox or google drive server, that you can manage as you see fit.

Oh no =(

Sorry but which country is this? Can you elaborate on that photo?

Come on. VR may not be mainstream, but there are millions of Meta Quest devices out there and a lot of people do use VR for gaming, exercise or training.

I’ve been working professionally with VR since 2018. Haven’t even tried a Vision Pro yet. Projects keeps coming.

VR was never dead, it just isn’t mainstream but has its use cases - including gaming, but also a lot of corporate, training, and now AI and simulation stuff.

Nice article! If you want to try and commercialize it (meaning - redoing it with nice graphics and polished UIs) DM me.

Meta is desperate for content and use cases for MR, and nothing comes up. They have been doing jams, they have funds to give to developers, and everything that comes up are basic wave shooters or simple ports (downgrades, really) from VR to MR.

Microsoft has probably figured out that, except for the military, it’s a solution in search of a problem, at least in the current form factor ans with current limitations.

I can imagine it being easier for a human teacher to come out with that sort of nonsense than for chatGPT or Claide to say something like that.

The solution is not living in the middle of anywhere, two hours away from civilization. If you lived next to the mall, you could go there by foot.

They track you in a million other ways, what do you care anyway.

the idea that people were crushed with tanks is disputed in academia

There are photos of people clearly crushed by tanks?

Yeah but a car is mostly made of engines and bolts and wheels and stuff like that, you know.

The article you referred to appears to delve into the actions and subsequent consequences faced by Jimmy Zhong, a 28-year-old computer expert from Athens, Georgia. The narrative begins when Zhong reports a theft of a substantial amount of cryptocurrency from his residence, leading to an investigation unveiling one of the most significant cryptocurrency crimes in history ➊.

In 2012, an individual pilfered 50,000 bitcoins from Silk Road, an illicit dark web marketplace. The valuation of these stolen bitcoins soared over time to surpass $3 billion, marking one of the colossal mysteries within the cryptocurrency realm for many years. Nearly a decade post this heist, a grave mistake by the perpetrator enabled the IRS-Criminal Investigation division to resolve the case ➋.

Jimmy Zhong, known for his partying tendencies and also for his exceptional computer skills, was the person behind this massive theft. His downfall was linked to his report about the crypto theft, which was a cover-up, and his robust digital home surveillance system which perhaps played a part in his identification ➌.

Following his conviction in 2022, a raid on his Georgia residence led to the confiscation of approximately 50,676 bitcoins, then valued at over $3.36 billion. Zhong cooperated with the authorities and forfeited the stolen assets ➍.

This tale highlights a significant event within the cryptocurrency community and demonstrates the long-term investigative efforts that can span several years before reaching a resolution.

Any app that moves the camera (or thw whole world) without user input will make people sick, it’s just a law of good VR. Any app that doesn’t render at a stable 72fps+ will make people sick. Any app that simulates things that make people sick in real life, will also make people sick in VR.

On the other hand, any app that keeps a stable 90fps, that uses teleport with a very short fade instead of thumbstick movement, and that never messes with the camera position, will not make people sick.

Most people who have tried VR and have felt sick, were basically victims of awful, non-optimized VR experiences, and awful VR hardware like Google Cardboard and variants.

The “Tuscany Villa” is an ancient demo that I tried in the Oculus DK1 in like 2014 or so, and it made me sick for hours. It uses very fast continuous movement instead of teleport, and it has a set of stairs that will make you instantly throw up if you try to climb them.

It’s is perfectly possible to create VR experiences that will not make anyone nauseous, Moss being a good example.

I read this as “40-70% of VR developers don’t know what they are doing”. What needs to be done to avoid motion sickness has been known for a long while now.

Listen - the meteors that fall on earth every day are usually in an orbit similar to that of the earth, at more or less the same velocity. Can you picture that? There’s dust flying around with the earth, at more or less the same speed, and that dust sometimes falls into our atmosphere and lands on someone’s garden. That the normal situation.

This specific object came at the earth two times faster than any star around the solar system is moving. It crashed at the earth moving faster than everything else around us - and pieces of it survived the impact with the atmosphere!

That’s why those spherules are special - regular meteors are made from iron and, if they entered the atmosphere at that speed, they would have competely vaporized. This one impacted the ocean, pieces of it were found, and it turns out it is made of some alloy we’d never seen before (and that’s why pieces of it survived, because it’s not iron like regular meteors).

Do you understand now the significance? I would recommend you read the article before replying again.

Loeb has been calling them “spherules”.