yeah, even non-HNers aren't likely to want to use hardware tied to something called "Facebook View" to manage their photos (it actually doesn't sync photos with Facebook unless you specifically ask it to never mind having any means to display ads or inject viral videos and political content into your eyeballs, but if they need to explain that...)
The sales of Oculus Quest units seems to disagree
... and sure it is. I certainly am not hoping for Meta to succeed in owning the metaverse.
That said, the sentiments can add up to an impulsive "roast em!" habit that discourages risk taking, even risk thinking. It's ultimately much easier and less interesting to consider how things can fail than how they can succeed.
So will self driving taxis be an experience where the passenger is bombarded with adverts projected onto all the glass so you cant see where you going?
I'm surprised this has not already appeared in the US!
Thank goodness this hasn't become common in my part of the country yet. The only gas stations that do this are the ones near the major hotels that out-of-towners stay at (where the gas is also more expensive), so they're easily avoided.
It has, but on touchscreen displays instead of the windows. It's exceedingly terrible.