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And IIRC those are all PCVR sets and not standalone.

100%. There's a reason there aren't other standalone sets this good or better. It's very, very hard. The tech just isn't there to do a lot better than this without the price being even more insane. I'm really curious to see how the tech progresses. Some of the hurdles are incredibly complex.

This is one of the crazier teardown videos I've ever seen for any device. It's just jam packed with stuff. The engineering involved is ridiculous, regardless of what you think about the device's validity or of Apple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVJPAYwY8Us

Some people call VR dystopian, but it's got great potential too.

During COVID while I was living alone and we were under lockdown...

I used a Quest to watch movies in a virtual theater with a bunch of people from around the world. I remember being in a theater watching an absolutely ridiculous Nicolas Cage movie laughing my ass off with a bunch of dudes from Australia. Another time I watched a cricket game with some people who explained the rules to me and kinda gave me some play by play on what was happening.

I've also attended a few support group meetings in VR for coping with loss that had quite a lot of attendants. The meeting was run by a licensed group therapist and we took turns sharing and then reflecting on each others stories. It was frankly amazing.

I also played mini golf with friends of mine as well as had a couple meetings over a round of mini golf with the other guy on my design team during lockdown. Honestly the best virtual meetings I ever had.

All of the above were very social and very positive experience. I didn't feel far away from people, I felt connected to them.

Same way a smartphone can be a useful tool that enhances your life or a screen you stare at for hours consuming bullshit TikTok videos. You're in control of what you make of it. You can also stick to a dumb phone and not participate at all.

Incidentally I thought both philosophies sounded somewhat reasonable when I was around 13.

Damn that is not something you read in the news every day. Pretty insane.

Not a gotcha question, but what things did the LHC discover that have real practical applications right now other than validating some hypothesis? Because I’ve looked into it before and turned up nothing so I’m wondering what I’m missing.

Yeah I’m just not sure how much I believe this thing is worth the investment at all and the fact that it’s 100km just proves these guys were like “uhhh, let’s make it BIG NUMBER KM LONG.”

I think there’s likely quite a lot of other worthier expenditures in science research than this indulgent toy.

lol

I got into scratch/trash building and kit bash modeling crazy mechs and stuff last year and it’s been a blast.

Please elaborate.

Yeah for sure they both have their pros and cons, I've used both extensively. This just happens to be something that would particularly fucking infuriate me and I'm glad I don't have to deal with it on my daily driver.

Sorta feels like someone kicking the door into your house and tacking up billboards on your walls or something.

To each their own. I don't care for the bulk of RAID setups or the transfer and seek time of individual spinning disks.