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Nothing replaces anything (members post)
Does the Vision Pro look like it's going to replace the Mac or the iPad? How about our phones? Maybe…possibly…in many years, but it's more likely to be yet another computer in our lives. It *can* happen, it's just rare.
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Games could be gayer 🏳️🌈
Zachary Small writing for The New York Times, citing this study:
Less than 2 percent of console video games include L.G.B.T.Q. characters or story lines even though 17 percent of gamers are queer
To be clear, this isn’t 2% of console games having a queer main character or that 2%
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The TV business ain’t what it used to be
Sarah Nassauer for The Wall Street Journal: Walmart in Talks to Buy TV Maker Vizio
The retail giant is in talks to buy smart television-manufacturer Vizio for more than $2 billion, according to people familiar with the situation. The move would give Walmart more places where it can sell ads and pitch shoppers on
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The Vision Pro App Store is full of something rare: paid apps
Sarah Perez for TechCrunch: Over Half of Vision Pro-Only Apps Are Paid Downloads, Far More Than Wider iOS App Store
According to a recently released report from app intelligence firm Appfigures, over half of Vision Pro-only apps (52%) are paid downloads — a surprising percentage given that across the wider App Store, only 5%
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The good, the bad, and the pixelated parts of using a Mac in visionOS
We're very much in the early days of visionOS. As I told Chris Lawley on Mastodon, "this
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Gemini? Gemini. Gemini!
2 short months ago Google announced Gemini (apparently Gemini 1.0). It came in 3 variants:
1. Gemini Nano, which runs locally on devices as small as your phone
2. Gemini Pro, which runs on a server and was the back end for Bard
3. Gemini Ultra, which didn’t run anywhere public back then
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I sold my iPad (members post)
How does one afford a Vision Pro? Sacrifices had to be made.
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The most anonymous gaming generation
Jen Glennon for Kotaku: Bummer: PS5 Entering 'The Latter Stage of Its Life Cycle,' Sony Says
Sony execs also said that its current-gen hardware, the PlayStation 5, is nearing the end of its life cycle.
I think the PS5 and Xbox Series console generation will go down as one of the most
My co-worker's first impressions of the Vision Pro
I brought the Vision Pro to the office today to show a work friend since he's into tech, although he's definitely more cautious when it comes to jumping on new things. He's done a little VR before, as well.
He was immediately struck by the quality of the build.
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The Quest 3 is better than you might expect
Alex Heath for The Verge: Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is “the better product” vs. Apple’s Vision Pro
He says the Quest has a better “immersive” content library than Apple, which is technically true for now, though he admits that the Vision Pro is a better entertainment device. And then there’s the fact that
Why reviewing the Vision Pro is so hard
If you handed me the iPhone 16 Pro today and told me that I needed to have a written review
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For the life of me I can’t find a GPT I find useful (besides my own)
Emilia David for The Verge: I Love My GPT, but I Can’t Find a Use for Anybody Else’s
Though I’ve come to depend on my GPT, it’s the only one I use.
I’ve had the exact same experience. I fully expected that the GPT store would be full of cool
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I have no cursor and I must click (members post)
The Vision Pro isn't a developer kit, but it's definitely got some UI oddities that will get sorted out before it's really ready for the mainstream.
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My wife’s first reaction to using the Vision Pro (and Meta Quest 3)
My wife wasn’t super interested in the Vision Pro, but after having it in the house for a few days, she finally said, “fine, let’s see what this is all about.”
So I get her into the headset and she had tow immediate things that stuck out to her:
1. The headset is
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We’re all jazzed at first, the long game is still to be determined
Tim Urban: All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro
It’s not just me. VR blows everyone away when they try it, but it seems to have a hard time hooking people for the long run. After a major wave of hype in the mid-2010s, VR receded into the land of
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Movies on the Vision Pro are a stunning, but imperfect experience
Back when I was a kid, there was a “computer room” in our house. There was one PC and we
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So on brand
Jordan Pearson: How Tech Firms Made a Crypto-Boosting Book an NYT Best Seller by Gaming the System
Cafiero linked two examples of firms that publicly said they placed orders for Dixon’s book to give to employees. One was Syndicate, a company in the crypto industry that a16z has invested in. “We bought copies
