I would really love to see proper educational content from Meta but i bet this is not were the 'next money thing' is.
Imagine a catalog of proper real life skills you can actually train reasonable good:
- cooking
- soldering
- welding
- Tons of woodworking things
- ...
You could also go to a lot of makers of tools and offer them to digitalize their products for them so someone can actually exercise with a cheap to super high end machine like specific CNCs or table saws etc.
A previous company I worked at was using mixed reality years ago (>4) to train manufacturing operators on manufacturing processes.
It ended up looking like a simulated workbench with low-detail models of CAD parts that needed to be assembled - it was pretty cool. Engineering companies are very ready for this technology.
A local school here trains nurses in a VR environment that is situated inside a fully built out wing of a hospital. The headsets come down from the ceiling, all the equipment is real, but there are dummies in the beds, and some observation screens for others who supervise.
Why would you want to see it "from Meta"? There's no way a single company, that isn't even in the education business, can product that kind of content and keep it up to date. Meta's play is the right one – make an OS and software platform and let people build whatever they want on it.
I really want some good VR train sims. It’s vaguely educational! A standalone quest train sim would be an instant buy for me. Probably not for many other people.
Coincidentally, I saw Meta ads plastered all over London today - showcasing a welder who claims she practiced/learned welding with a Meta Oculus sitting at home.
Where would that fit in between watching others do it on YouTube for entertainment, and doing it for real where you can hold (or eat) the result at the end?
It seems one of the primary tradeoffs in edutainment is between actually learnable teaching and “content porn” where you sub content with food, cars, tech, etc.
When I think of truly learnable cooking videos the first thing that comes to mind is Kenji’s POV cooking videos / streams. Seems like something that could be relatively adaptable to a AR / MR format in a way that would differentiate it from other (still valid) content like the relatively educational food porn from Alex / @FrenchGuyCooking.
I'm actually making a version of Kenji's macaroni and cheese (except with shredded baby back rib meat added) for lunch as we speak! His channel is great.
I would also be interested in a Chef Jean Pierre simulator, where you learn classic French recipes in a subtly deranged metaverse with a butter-based economy.
As cheap to perform in as YouTube video, almost as vivid as the real thing, but again with most of the bullshit ("reality has a lot of detail") removed, just like with a YouTube video. Ideally, it would be suitable for experimenting with something you might want to then try out for real, but which would be too risky (time, money, embarrassment) to start with for real.
More hassle than a YouTube video, which is already more hassle than an article, but considering we’re talking about mixed reality, the ability to do the soldering, next to a detailed 3D model of exactly what you should be doing, in your line of sight, is a big selling point to me.
Besides android being gigantic huge, you still have google maps, chrome, gmail, pixel phones, passkey, yubikeypush/2fa, the new cookie aproach, YouTube!!1 etc.
Why would Google need a 'recent' success to be able to win ar snail?
the point is probably about whether google still has the ability to go from 0 to 1. instead of 1 to n. from the outside they look like they are not so slowing becoming the bean counting accountant / MBA type of company.
Not all models have Free weights and not all models that are Free can run on your hardware.
Normally the "can't run on your hardware" is a little dubious, but given how insanely high the hardware requirements can get to run these I think it's meaningful here.
I'm still here to create a product/tool/script/solve something and not just to write code.
If anything i do helps to make the ecosystem around me better i'm for it.
And if you look at anything LLM right now, all the research happening, its not opensource doing the research. Its high paid google, ms, etc. people and academy replicates it fast for opensource.
I think there's very good reason to look past one blog post, people, come on.
If I am a higher-up executive in Google, I'm not going to much care what the numbers on RSS look like now, it takes less half a brain to understand that Google Reader has at least a CHANCE at chewing into the bottom line hard if it takes off -- even if those chances are slim. I'd kill it quickly as possible. If I can do so early, with little fanfare, even better.
I have the feeling that we have now so much more music than ever before, the speed people diverse into their unique directions will happen faster than before.
When kids can already listen to everything through smartphones, there is less and less need to listen to one of the few radio stations playing the same everytime.
He thinks about those types of things and are acting on it (which is the key point in my opinion) because he is someone who thinks about those types of things.
I work in a big software company with 100k and i get asked about stuff from people.
But i'm seen as knowledgeable and my manager basically lets me completly alone doing my thing and gives me all benefits regarding salary he can to keep me.
anecdotally, i find this statement quite dubious. i speak two languages natively but only think in one. two other languages i know proficiently, and they never come to mind naturally except when intentionally called into service. anything you can reference to help me read or interpret the signs? thanks.
still dubious. anyone who speaks multiple languages still thinks in one. and object recognition in the real world doesn’t require language. abstract concept recognition requires language, but it’s always in the language the concept was encountered.
I often enough formulate sentences in the language i'm writing.
And plenty of times i remembered a word only in english but not in german.
Like a few month back i was looking at an escalator and though mmmhh escalator whats the german word for it? Took me ages to remember Rolltreppe
Is your mother tonge english? Because i do not think that just having learned a language will help you here a lot. I speak english at my workplace every day while am a german in germany.
