dmarcos

Would you go back to a pre-youtube, pre-printing press, pre-internet, pre-pick-your—favorite-tecnology that democratized content creation and distribution? I know I wouldn’t.

I don’t mind the slop. Filtering and discovery is a solvable issue. I care about tons of niche and educational content that I enjoy that would not exist if it had to be funded / approved by gatekeepers.

What’s your opinion of Youtube? We were better off when just a few could create and distribute video at scale?

There was similar criticism to yours when the printing press was invented.

What kind of edits you mean? You can crop / combine splats easily in your browser with supersplat (not affiliated)

https://superspl.at/editor

What’s the best use of splats that you’ve seen so far that I can try? AR/VR or regular 3D

This doesn’t match Meta financial results. $2.146B revenue in 2024 vs $1.896B in 2023. ~12% growth

Source: https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-deta...

It includes some of the engineering team and a non-exclusive IP agreement.

I agree. Wokeness has a very precise meaning: World is divided between oppressors and oppressed. Oppressors are white heterosexual men (white supremacy / heteropatriarchy) everyone else subjugated to them. Institutions, laws are created to perpetuate that power and must be dismantled / subverted via revolution.

Most understand it even if they can’t articulate a definition. Easy to point out when a movie or corporate initiative, behavior is woke.

Well done! Love to see innovation in Web games. Biz model also interesting. I didn’t see a login button. how do you identify paying users and store progress?

Try to define happiness in a universal pragmatic way.

Even basic survival varies acc ross culture and contexts. People die in the millions all the time for their countries, ideas, religions, offspring…

Do you currently have any published content on any platform? Burden of proof is on the one making a claim. One of the signs of product-market fit is word of mouth organic growth. I’m a dev with published content and know a plethora of other devs. None seeing significant growth or improved retention. If you’re right the evidence is really hidden. Any forum or community where I can talk to the users that are using AVP a ton?

Making a niche product is fine but that’s not the “next computing platform” that justifies $16B/year investment by Meta alone.

You have data to back up your claim that “Vision Pro owners are using it often multiple hours a day? That’s a shrinking tiny fraction of AVP buyers based on my experience. I’ve been in the industry for a decade. I have an AVP, know many other owners and devs with published apps. I’m myself the dev of moonrider: most popular WebXR application so see the industry numbers.

Also sales /= usage and retention. Engagement is what you need to grow a platform.

Your numbers about XBox sales might be true for a brief period of time between Quest2 and Quest3 releases. Still what matters is engagement and retention.

As mentioned only product-market (albeit niche) fit for VR has been some games subgenres. Can you point to any other applications with significant numbers?

“VR will become something everyone wants before it becomes something everyone can afford” Palmer Luckey

People that bought Vision Pro at $3,500 they are not using it all that much. A lower price will just result in more headsets gathering dust.

VR has no product-market fit except for a couple of game niches. Far from the “next computing platform” that justified investment of tens of billions of dollars a year.

Headsets and platforms need fundamental rethinking before optimizing for price.

Definitely. Value of life is estimated and changes all the time across cultures, in wars, life insurances, technological tradeoffs like cars that kill people but we accept the cost…

There’s no universal, intrinsic value to life. It’s us that give it value.

If audit your life I'm sure I'll find stuff I consider wasteful. The same if you audit mine.

Nothing has intrinsic value. Subjective theory of value. Some find BTC valuable as a store of value hence it has value.

BTC is volatile but one can argue has more guarantees than stocks. There's no counterparty risk. No company that can go bankrupt or entity that can fail. BTC is property.

The SEC doesn't consider BTC a security, so not "like a stock"

You can subscribe to the channels you like and ignore the rest.

Yeah. Video and Youtube is an example. Filtering is not a hard problem. Mega tons of bad stuff doesn’t bother me.

Thanks to high bandwidth Internet, YouTube and smartphones is easier than ever to produce and distribute high quality video. So much good stuff coming from it.

Expect something similar if video games, interactive 3D is cheap to produce.

Filtering is a much easier problem to solve and abundance a preferable scenario.

If stories (and AAA games in general) are bland in games is due in large part to how expensive are to produce. Risk tolerance is low.

If game assets are cheap to generate you’ll see small teams or even solo developers willing to take more creative risks

Very nice, thanks for sharing. Are you using any open source model?

I maintain and open source framework called A-Frame for Web based 3D, VR, AR and the community would love something like that

Keep up the good work

Nice! Is the environment creator available as standalone? What format do you output?

What’s your use case?

What’s your use case?

Thank you!

We have a gaussian splat component (same format that it looks World lab uses) for A-Frame that should work in VR on Quest and Vision Pro in their respective Web browsers. Quest FPS might not be ideal yet

https://x.com/dmarcos/status/1714364349928837147

Need to generate environments for simulation and training