The view-master comparison is the most fitting. It’s a thing you strap to your face to experience some neat things. Then when you’ve seen the Grand Canyon in stunning 3d, you can put it in storage and forget about it. I guess this is all to say, don’t put money on Zuck
I booted up my VR headset on a lark for the first time in a few years, and then dove in to figure out what I missed. In the interim time, the current and foreseeable version of VR will not be more than a toy.
I think folks want to liken VR today to the early days of the internet, but it isn’t. The devices are expensive, but without a practical benefit to drive adoption. The tooling is multiple orders of magnitude more complicated than making a website for your dog in html
New house came with a learning thermostat. Each night it automatically sets the temp to 64, and each night I manually raise it to 67. Not sure what it’s learning, but I don’t think it’s learning anything about temperature preferences
Is this derivative? Is it transformative? Does it contain elements of the original? I thought I knew how IP law around AI art would shake out, but I'm not so sure anymore.