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Fruit? Really?

It sorta partially is. On Apple’s movie store you get the 3D version with the HD/4K version. So if your movies anywhere unlocks the HD/4K it should unlock the 3D too. As long as the publisher has put the 3D version up there. And many did as a result of the Vision Pro.

I have a bunch of 3D movies available on my Vision Pro, and I’ve never specifically bought one in 3D. Many came from digital codes.

Apple has the largest collection of 3D movies right now.

The thing is, new content with proper 3D isn’t being made much these days. I’d estimate Apple has the bulk of what exists available already.

Edit: where am I wrong here?

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They are also important for VR content. You need a lot of pixels to fill someone’s Field of View.

That’s true. I’m thinking of the subscribe/follow aspect.

Social media should never be someone’s primary website too. IMO. But people are lazy.

They don’t even want email anymore, they want you to message them with Twitter or Instagram or whatever.

RSS really should be more common.

You use to get RSS feeds for Twitter accounts. AFAIR. So Twitter accounts were effectively RSS notification feeds at one point.

Aaron Swartz was involved in developing RSS v1.0 too, cofounder of Reddit.

I hope many organizations and groups follow suit.

This is part of the fall of Twitter.

There were two paths for Twitter, in the eyes of many idealistic people like me. One path was something terrible like what happened with Musk. The second path was one that treated it as a public commons of the world.

That second path is how many grew to understand Twitter during its rise and peak. This is why there are so many situations where various public and governmental groups used it as a notification feed/system.

You can go on about how they should just start their own ActivityPub based solution, or move to bluesky or whatever. But it’s not that simple for all of them. Nor are all of the groups involved in posting these feeds technically savvy to do so. Twitter made it easy, and it made sense.

The article could have easily been just as absurd if it was about how people didn’t get the alert because the alerts were moved to a mastodon instance and people are upset because they don’t want to have to go through the trouble of picking a server. heh.

It’s so unfortunate that Twitter went this way. No more free and easy api, no more third party apps and tools. No more expectation that everyone is there. No more expectation that public alerts make sense there.

Yes, centralizing all of this is a big problem. And musk is just one example of why. But, it could have gone the other way.

Fuck that. Not cool.

Yeah, in my case I legit thought he intentionally didn’t mention PayPal. Turns out I stopped watching the video _just _ before he does mention it, in the last minute of the 11 min video.

I think all the weird hate he got for the AI devices earlier last year was nonsense. Claiming he needs to be nicer so he doesn’t destroy companies is total nonsense.

But then I found it odd that he seemed to be avoiding associating Honey with PayPal. So I guess I have weird suspicions about influencers too…

Oh shit, I missed it then.

Edit: I just took a look again and I was mistaken. He mentions their name twice in the last minute of the 11 min video. Early on he refers to it as its own company.

When MKB commented on the situation, he avoided dropping the name PayPal. Seemingly on purpose. Just in case it would help him in the future.

I like how he mentions the fact you can’t save yet near the end of the video, and frames it as maybe just him. “Oh, it’s an alpha of course”

Impressive port, for sure. But YouTubers…. Optimizing scripts for runtime engagement.

Yeah, I’m mostly responding to the people I perceive to always shit on VR by mocking the idea of a metaverse or Meta’s version of a metaverse.

People dismiss the whole medium because of Zuck going wild with metaverse hype, and causing the whole industry to make all these nonsense metaverse claims.

Even Microsoft Teams was boasting about metaverse aspects at one point.

Yup, I like to sum it up as “we are in the palm pilot era of smart phones still.”

It’s a huge cliche to compare it to the iPhone. And it appears we won’t have an iPhone moment, it seems like we will have a more gradual shift.

But yeah. We love our palm pilots right now. But it’s gonna get so much better.

I can’t wait for social VR to be filled with more “normal” people.

People love to shit on VR because Meta pulled all that metaverse bullshit. But VR just keeps growing. Slowly, but it’s growing.

There’s no evidence it’s stopping yet.

In fact, Samsung and Google are jumping back in. And we have some of the lightest headsets ever made on the market right now.

VR is in a slow upswing.

Yeah, he really ran Apple into the ground. You barely hear about them today. 😔