Yes, I am a dweeb! Anyways, at least late at night. It's a great way to watch stuff and not disturb your spouse or others from bed.

I bought a few of of those 20 dollar real time video encoders( hdmi and usb c based), just so I could stream my ROKU right into my Meta Quest 3, and other times my Steam Deck. I much prefer using the Q3 as a Steam Deck display.

It's nice to have a screen that can be as big as your wall, or an iMax depending on the app being viewed, and you can choose the environment.

I found that I can bring my Mac Mini m4 to a complete crawl, where it takes over a minute to recover, just buy moving the Color Picker around when customizing the Desktop Background Color. I also managed to break my iPad's UI with in the first 30 minutes of use, where it go stuck on a blank screen, and this occurred after just swiping around exploring its UI functionality.

Maybe this new venture from Google won't be another scam.

I was hoping for a tiny Mardi Gras past.

How majestic.

How long before humans are forced into the forest, where we'll have no choice but to forage for berries and fight one another for the most coveted pine cone?

I'm both excited and amazed at what AI is doing, but equally worried about the human aspect being removed. Hopefully AI will only be an augment and never a replacement, and that we as humans will always just prefer the human derived stuff.

Other than sitting on a DEC Alpha and being informed that it was a $40k box at the time, I've never used on of these computers. It was at a game company I worked for in the 90s, they moved locations and we all did our part to help. During our food break, I used the large metal box as a seat, since there were no chairs. I quickly moved after being told about its cost.

I have my puny collection of vintage computers, but sadly the oldest is a 486sx25. My only non DOS computer is an IBM Power PC, which I got for free along with one of the best keyboards in all of existence, the IBM Model F 'AT'. It's proudly plugged into my 486dx 100.

I've gotten tot he point that if critics like Rotten Tomatoes like something, that that's a huge red flag for me. And on these sites, the audience scores can be unreliable initially, but they do eventually get sorted out. Rotten has been caught deleting negative audience reviews and locking the number to prevent them from dropping lower. This has been documented in real time from YouTube live streams.

To further ramble about this, media shills and the talent/creatives behind some movies and other forms of entertainment, will call legitimate criticism review bombing, while completely ignoring the flooding of 5-star ratings with generic comments as legit.

Anybody else read ISA and thought it would be awesome if this GPU was using the Industrial Standard Architecture? Nope, just me? :)

I'd rather have an iPad with brushable hair.

I didn't even think about the tape for storage. I'm still baffled at this, as the scale goes so far beyond my limited scope. I imagine people swapping in and out storage 24/7. :)

And still be profitable? I read that about every second an hour of video is uploaded and much of the newer content is 4k@60fps.

YouTube is my primary source of entertainment. Hopefully they never run out of space. :)

There's always the extension Stylebot. I've been using it for years now.

French and Saunders. The scene where they're riding bikes wearing helmets:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

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That's what META is doing now. It's why me, someone that avoids Facebook like the plague, bought a Quest 3. It's an incredible piece of current VR tech for the price and it's being sold at a loss from what I recall. They just introduced the Quest 3s, which costs the same as budget cellphone and it was the best selling VR headset over the holidays. And boy oh boy, I know they're tracking their users, but there's at least the vale of privacy I guess. :S But I certainly enjoy the experience being offered, just like I used to enjoy Apple's eco system early on and then Google's services. Actually, I enjoy the VR experience way more and his has yet to wear off. My Quest 3 is easily my favorite thing for the past 2 years.

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This has already been the case! Well, you have to own a Quest. You can create Metaverse content in directly in the VR headset in Horizon Worlds:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.meta.com%2Fho...


And that's not all, making actual apps for the Quest are very easy, the support is fully there to get you up and running and it's all free.

You can download Unity3D for free and all the META addons for free, and sign up as a Meta developer for free. And it's freaking easy! I had a VR app with hand and controller tracking deployed and running on my Meta Quest 3 in less than a half hour of getting everything installed. It didn't take much longer to setup a full body avatar, to grab items, to interact with them, all the basics of building a game/whatever. They have these drag and drop scene blocks that make this stuff cake.

It was easiest time I've had for any new device, as it's benefiting from all the hard work put into developing for mobile over the years.

Anyways, the Metaverse is only part of the Quest 3, but I think people see it has if it's the whole experience of META, when it's not. And as much as I'm a huge Meta fan for what they're doing for VR, I'm not into socializing with strangers in a VR world.