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I don't get why some investors still think it's a good idea to make a voice based interface. It always looked like a bad idea but I thought that the relative failure of home assistants proved the point ?

Yeah, if you want all your data going to some other third party. The AI stuff isn't on board, it's all remote, and there's no way they're not going to eventually add some subscription.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Apple just started pre-sales of its Vision Pro mixed reality headset, with shipments beginning in early February; meanwhile, Samsung debuted the next generation of the only viable iPhone competitor out there, the Galaxy S-series.

The r1 deserves praise just for its physical design, which is a tidy bit of kit created in partnership with Teenage Engineering, the gadget “it” brand of young millennials and Gen Z everywhere.

So that could be playing music, booking airfare, providing directions, hailing a ride, ordering food, translating in real time and much more.

But the rabbit r1 already has the kind of organic hype that would-be competitors like the Humane AI pin wished they’d been able to drum up with their carefully tuned, but massively overblown protracted promo campaign.

Apple, meanwhile, is introducing the Vision Pro to a world where a decade or so of trying has utterly failed to create any kind of mass uptake of virtual, mixed or augmented reality headset use.

But increasingly, I think companies like rabbit are working with a more realistic and viable version of computing’s future than some of the legacy players out there who are trying, and failing, to shot-call the next big thing.

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