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Matthew Dowd

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Grassroots VR populist | 20 | @thatswilddotcom

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I'll probably create a blog post on this to give my full thoughts, but there's a lot of hype within the AI community about fully explorable generative worlds - simulations created with a combination of diffusion models. I think this concept is cool, but I'm doubtful that it would

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Object permanence is embedded in humans at an early age through peekaboo. You cover a book on a table, you know it’s still there. VR worlds for the most part not have object permanence yet. You take the headset off, you close the game. The world and changes you made in it are

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VR stats put the average mobile social app play to shame, but nobody can figure out how it’ll put the best mobile social apps to shame.

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I’m probably the prime demographic for this - I previously owned the Meta Raybans, but lost them and have been needing a new pair of smart glasses. Photo/video was my favorite feature on them. Etc. I’m not buying these. This is distasteful, and reductive for what smart glasses

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Player acquisition is literally free in VR it’s insane. I think the hype to “build something that works well for TikTok” is overblown because of how easy it is to get downloads. At a certain point, making something hyper optimized for TikTok comes at the expense of making