It’s also open solicitation of bribes with an explicit quid pro quo but I guess that doesn’t matter any more.

Also carbon-driven climate change is the largest tragedy of the commons possible (at our current tech level) and humans have never successfully conducted the level of cooperation required to solve it.

Closest analog is CFC-driven ozone layer decay. That was mostly solved because the solutions aren’t that painful . I don’t really care that all aerosol cans work a little worse now that we don’t put CFCs in them. Climate change isn’t that . The solutions require deep, painful, and expensive change. Easier to just pretend everything is fine and ignore it.

Reminds me of Rocky from Project Hail Mary (sort of, they didn’t live under ocean but under an extremely hostile-to-us atmosphere).

Also , how can someone be an “Xbox influencer” as a job?

VR has been around in modern form for more than a decade and the only truly novel and useful application is some types of gameplay.

There are a few other legitimate applications. Architects can offer people a 1st person view of a designed building. There are already companies that let people do VR walkthrough of homes they’re considering buying rather than in person open houses (I think this started in the pandemic).

These things have value but they’re niche applications that can be done with any VR headset.

Has anyone identified the “killer app” yet?

I still don’t see it. I watched a lot of review vids just because it was interesting but I don’t see a single thing that the Vision Pro can do that can’t be done better with other devices.

The tech and computation required for those avatar things is amazing . It might get much better soon. But even if it does, will it be better than simple FaceTime type video conferences?

It’s not clear to me how apple even imagines people using the thing.

Most of the super progressive takes are just ways that would definitely help Trump retake the Whitehouse so…yeah.

Him being a producer on the film does give him a bit more responsibility towards the process and protocols on set that led to such an incident, but I still don’t think they have enough to convict here.