Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds
I am generally optimistic about technology, but what if AI is in the exact same spot that VR was when Palmer Lucky launched the Rift?
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MOΞ
@moe
It’s more likely that crypto is in that spot :) I’m way more optimistic about AI.
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Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds
Yeah could be either one or neither honestly. It’s just interesting to think about the hype when Occulus was finally bringing VR to the masses. That hype has resulted in a very niche industry that never really took off or did what people thought.
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Caden
@cbxm
i think VR is still coming, and i think it's because apple and microsoft want to build mixed reality experience that feel like in-person social meta is extremely competitive in the tech department and with retail, but aren't regarded as "business" tech so they won't take off there, and Microsoft will push it on everyone with Teams as their solution to the remote work problem, with heavily subsidized introductory hardware that big biz will purchase as a one-time instead of a recurring lease on office space, and
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Caden
@cbxm
... and Apple will take ten more years to build an uber premium product (eg. doesn't require room sensors or other hardware at all, and can bridge the uncanny valley on face detection) and then suddenly turn the entire market upside down when they get their tech stack right and stuff it into glasses for $550 convert 15% of all iPhone users in a year or something
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Caden
@cbxm
when Snap's sunglasses let us beam into each others' living rooms, everything is gonna change
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Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds
Yeah I think I generally agree with all of this. The time horizon on that is about 15 more years. So if we apply that to AI, this hype train would die down and then pop back up again in a decade. Maybe when AGI actually happens (if it’s even possible)
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