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[Link] Goals And Goalposts
Read: 15/8/2021 hackaday.com
In the winter, I hatched a vague plan to learn some of the modern unmanned aerial vehicle tech. Everybody needs an autonomous vehicle, and we’ve got some good flying fields within walking distance, so it seemed like it could work.
[Link] Move over, space. Tech billionaires have a new utopian boondoggle: the ‘metaverse’
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Look at all of our tech billionaires trying to leave the world to evade responsibility for their malevolent influence on it. Anything to avoid being confronted by the workers they exploit or the victims of the ethnic and religious clashes facilitated by their platforms.
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[Link] Editorial: Oculus Quest 2 Is Becoming A VR Personal Computer
Read: 7/8/2021 uploadvr.com
Earlier this week I installed Blizzard’s Hearthstone, Apple Music, and the flatscreen Android version of Netflix on Oculus Quest 2. To my left, I played a game of Hearthstone with hand tracking while on the right I watched Terminator 2 downloaded locally from Netflix.
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