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zmmmmm ◴[] No.45674918[source]
Kind of sad to see here on "hacker news" that 80% of the comments are low effort cheap shots.

The interesting thing here is the core of it, being Android XR and its deep AI integration, especially the spatial awareness. Devices will come and go, but the OS will be the core that stays and grows and evolves over time. I am very curious to know how much of this is all exposed as OS foundations to build on vs a monolithic app built to look like an OS by Google. This has been a large part of Meta's mistake, where the OS is not providing many of these fundamentals and any app you see doing it is mostly re-inventing it themselves or relying on 3rd party tools like Unity to do the heavy lifting.

The really impressive part of Vision Pro is actually how well thought out the OS is underneath it, exposing fundamentals of how 3D computing can work. Especially the part to do with compositing together multiple spatial apps living together in the same shared space and even interacting with each other (eg: one app can emit a lighting effect that will shade the other's rendering).

I am very curious if Google has done this kind of foundational work. Especially if that is designed (as they claim) from the ground up to interface with AI models - eg: a 3D vision language model can reason across everything in your shared space including your pass through reality and respond to it. This would be truly amazing but there's zero technical information I can see at this point to know if Google really built these foundations or not here.

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reactordev ◴[] No.45676993[source]
Is this the LLM hallucinating or you? Google has a long history of abandoning things. Samsung isn’t doing themselves any favors by pricing this at $1799usd. This is a #metoo product. Nothing more. Where is the killer experience that Apple headset / Samsung headset / Meta headset provides? Being social? Watching a movie? c’mon! They have nothing. Now, if AI gets to the point where you can stream worlds, imagine movies, or paint the universe than maybe we might have something down the road but today - It’s about as useful as the Apple Vision which isn’t very useful.

PiMax and others at least know their lane. Simulation. These phone makers and social media companies aren’t vested in it other than to sell you ads to your eyeballs.

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1. NuclearPM ◴[] No.45677091[source]
Porn. Porn is the killer app. You’ll see.
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2. AuryGlenz ◴[] No.45678962[source]
At the risk of getting way too personal for HN, my wife and I couldn’t have sex for a while recently due to medical reasons. For my own sanity, I decided to look at what VR porn was available as I hadn’t checked it out since whenever the Quest 2 was released.

Woof. I think OnlyFans has taken away all of the good looking porn actresses (performers?) away from the large producers. Those large producers are the only ones that can make VR porn - or rather, I’m sure it’s possible for OnlyFans types to but probably not worth it.

Anyways, I’m not so sure about your statement. VR is not the right environment to “enjoy” a 4/10 on a good day.