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[Matt R.]

Did you give it the facts it would need to be correct? Did you tell it to stick to the facts?

No details really at all, just entered my name and told it to write a resume. I sort of expected it to be factual as most of the details are easily found on common websites, so I wasn’t expecting to find a bunch of made up (but legitimate or even probable) experience.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

The problem with Apple Vision Pro is you look like an idiot wearing it.  That was the problem with Google Glass a decade ago.

 

 

 

 

Fans React to Apple Vision Pro Announcement With Memes, Shock Over Price Point

 

Apple's new headset costs $3500, and the internet can't believe it.

 

 

https://www.ign.com/...ver-price-point

 

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 05 June 2023 - 10:47 PM.

[Matt R.]

Like Jeff Fahey in Lawmower Man.

We have an Oculus Rift, maybe four years old, and it’s just wild. I’ve fallen over playing with this thing, reaching for a counter that didn’t exist. Amazing tech, but super dorky gear.

I wonder what the new versions are like.

[Matt R.]

^ oh I see the new versions are the exact same dorky face mask. Probably wifi tho.

[AllseeingEye]

Like Jeff Fahey in Lawmower Man.

We have an Oculus Rift, maybe four years old, and it’s just wild. I’ve fallen over playing with this thing, reaching for a counter that didn’t exist. Amazing tech, but super dorky gear.

I wonder what the new versions are like.

 

I've little doubt within a generation or so they'll be similar to what is projected for browsing the WWW for example; instead of geeky (in the case of your VR stuff) or bulky, space-hogging home computer and PC hardware in the case of web surfing, much of the technology to experience or perform those operations and engage in those activities will be embedded into us as research and development of human-machine integration marches relentlessly on.

[Matt R.]

But that’s even more dorky, innit?

[Victoria Watcher]

I think of the advantage is just injected into your head or brain, that’ll be lots better than this goofy headset.

Females spend thousands or tens of thousands to look good, this thing makes everyone look like an idiot.

[Matt R.]

I spent thousands on a single fake tooth, it’s not just females. And I still don’t look good!

Edited by Matt R., 06 June 2023 - 10:55 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

 

 

I remember taking my first IBM clone (I had a Commodore 64 years earlier) into Compusmart on Yates to get some type of a memory upgrade, while I went away on vacation.  Might have been around 1996 or 1997.  Came back to a much quicker machine.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 June 2023 - 03:45 AM.

[Mike K.]

My first computer was a 386!

[Victoria Watcher]

Pretty sure mine shipped with Windows 95. So not sure what the processor was. Might have been an AMD.

[Mike K.]

Oh shoot! I started with a 486, not a 386! Mine had the windows that precedes 95. Windows 3.6 I think it was, on a 486 machine.

[dasmo]

My dad bought us a TSR 80. It used a cassette tape for memory. He used to say the music we listened to sounded like a computer tape. Now we have super computers we wear on our face that project fake eyes on the outside. We have come a long way!

[spanky123]

I remember taking my first IBM clone (I had a Commodore 64 years earlier) into Compusmart on Yates to get some type of a memory upgrade, while I went away on vacation.  Might have been around 1996 or 1997.  Came back to a much quicker machine.

 

Probably doubled the memory from 4K to 8K!

[Victoria Watcher]

You might wear a computer on your face. Most others will not.

[AllseeingEye]

The first OS I ever worked with in the business world wasn't even windows it was a  SCO/UNIX green screen command-line system and that meant actual computing operations using nothing but the keyboard and knowing those keyboard commands and syntax by heart. Weren't no such thang as a mouse.....

 

In the first tech firm I worked for as a network analyst I remember being very pleased when we finally purchased our first pentium-class processor machines and I was assigned a P-90. Whoo-wee it was ffffffffffffffffffffast. At least by the standards of the time, lol. Only to find out later the same day the developers had P-133's: damn those smug, snobby coders....!

[Mike K.]

I think I upgraded that machine to a Pentium 166. Does that make sense? Then the next one was an AMD of some kind which I overdrived by pencilling in some lines between something or other.

[Victoria Watcher]

The first OS I ever worked with in the business world wasn't even windows it was a SCO/UNIX green screen command-line system and that meant actual computing operations using nothing but the keyboard and knowing those keyboard commands and syntax by heart. Weren't no such thang as a mouse.....

In the first tech firm I worked for as a network analyst I remember being very pleased when we finally purchased our first pentium-class processor machines and I was assigned a P-90. Whoo-wee it was ffffffffffffffffffffast. At least by the standards of the time, lol. Only to find out later the same day the developers had P-133's: damn those smug, snobby coders....!

Ya good story about how Jobs “discovered” the mouse over at the Xerox test shop.

[dasmo]

You might wear a computer on your face. Most others will not.

I’m not. I found ski goggles irritating skiing. If it was a full face mask where I could project a face that could look interested and even respond with my own personal AI then maybe. That way I could spend all my time trolling VV, even during business meetings!