Hugo Barra, who was the Head of Oculus from 2017 to 2020 & lifelong VR enthusiast, makes the argument in his essay about the Vision Pro and how it compares with Meta’s Quest devices, & other headsets that are available on the market. Highly recommended. buff.ly/3IDDHMp

Sharing a bit more about Reflect Orbital today. Tristan Semmelhack and I are developing a constellation of revolutionary satellites to sell sunlight to thousands of solar farms after dark. We think sunlight is the new oil and space is ready to support energy infrastructure. This

Fantastic Stratechery interview with Hugo Barra touching on early mobile and diving deep into Apple Vision Pro, VR’s magic of teleportation, and even mention of Gaussian Splats.

Matt Miesnieks is Back with Dejavu arinsider.co/2024/04/02/mat…

If some company, startup or group wanted to disrupt Apple, Meta and Microsoft, same as how they all once disrupted prior giants, and become the new giant themselves. While this will be very ‘hard’ to do, the path to do so I think is clear. A decade ago there wasn’t even a

Huge news for anyone working in tech in the US. Noncompetes are now banned: not just in California (like before), but nationwide. Very, very relevant for anyone at Amazon (which is the Big Tech that has enforced noncompetes even for low-level engineering positions).

I briefly thought you can upload a podcast mp3 to ChatGPT 4o and the start asking questions about it, all on mobile, ready in less than a minute. Realized quickly it hallucinated its ability to do that (surely possible soon though).

VisionOS devs, some huge news here:

Let’s go!

This theory makes sense to me… esp if rumors of Apple glasses, like meta Raybans but with a display, come to fruition in 2025. Will seed a camera-app ecosystem

New paper on lifelike 3D avatars running in real-time right on your phone! Qualcomm’s new tech uses a breakthrough method of 3D Gaussian Splatting to make virtual humans more realistic. Best part? My son recently joined this team! qualcomm.com/developer/blog…

Turning daily life into an AR game with the new Snap Spectacles & Sidequest.xyz

Even truer today... so much going on with Map AIs and assistants.

I think many knowledge workers who spend an hour with Cowork will get that "Claude Code" moment that has been roiling X for the past few weeks.

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