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Depends who you ask.

If you ask Zuckerberg, it's VR.

Musk, it's batteries, then space transit, the Mars.

Bezos, it's media power.

Google/Alphabet, it's sort form of self-driving map-navigating vehicle.

Microsoft, it's whatever the next startup they acquire is working on.

For smartphones, it's wafer-thin clear devices that are basically: ID card, credit card, smartphone in one. 2025?

For old people, it's personal robotic assistance.

For travel, it's "multi country visas" (like Schengen in EU or CTA in IE / UK, but for more and more regions that are not in a combined area), but also: "multi product travel agents", like you just go to the app, pick your next city, and you'll see a couple of price tiers of package, with each automatically taking care of: your hotel booking, your flights, your airport to hotel transport, plus any data sims, and other basics you need. And then it works the same for every city you want to go. Just works.

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> If you ask Zuckerberg, it's VR.

VR needs a killer app.

The problem is, Zuck thinks it's going to be essentially VRChat, but that won't be it.

It won't be any sort of virtual office either, as the resolution still isn't good enough. Also, I can't imagine someone that does most of their work using a keyboard would actually want to do their work in VR, especially if doing anything in VR still requires a controller.

There are a lot of really good games, but VR gaming is still very niche, even among people that play a lot of games.

> The problem is, Zuck thinks it's going to be essentially VRChat, but that won't be it.

Why not? VRChat is pretty popular, as are other digital hang out technologies like Fortnite and Discord.

I think this space has some legs, especially amongst the youth.

They literally just need to built fortnite for VR. Then they'll be set

Maybe VR will have no killer app, maybe the interfaces will be RR - remote reality.

I think lots of autonomous system promises won't hold, you'll have people in the loop with VR headsets controlling an entire swarm of drones and vehicles, when the limited autonomy says: "this is too dangerous/weird for me to decide now".

>For smartphones, it's wafer-thin clear devices that are basically: ID card, credit card, smartphone in one. 2025?

But a foot long and half a foot wide. The industry and consumer have soured hard on hand held phones, you now need giant hands or two hands. That's me on my old pixel 5 boycotting the upgrade.

Love it. That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight, losing sensory nerves in my fingers... Hahaha

> Musk

Space internet, especially on every phone anywhere is huge improvement.

> multi product travel agents

But that’s how travel agents currently work? I guess they just lack snazzy modern apps.

Any startups you can point to that are related to the last bullet?

If I had the money I'd be working on it

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