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Also… a) I haven’t read Snowcrash and probably won’t. Feels too late to go beyond summary. I read Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon and don’t feel like another Neal S. slog. b) I do have an Oculus and have tried the rest… Hololens, Mag8c Leap. I’m Take Competent™
Read 2 parts so far. Cogent overview and hardware status report. No surprises yet, but good to see basics laid out. My one “real” VR experience btw was going apartment hunting last June during pandemic. Took 2 VR tours including the one I moved to. Was great on Oculus.
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🤔 the idea of an Open Metaverse instantly strikes me as a pataf9x somehow, like “Zion Matrix.” But I suppose it’s possible.
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the @open_metaverse group might be of interest to you notion.so/OMI-Open-Metav github.com/omigroup/OMI/d
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🤣 there’s always both insight and lulz in the snark channel
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@dellsystem solicited some (cynical) five word summaries mobile.twitter.com/dellsystem/sta
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Part 3 on networking also no real surprises. Nice to know there are latency focused backbone startups. Lots of useful summary detail factoids. Didn’t know Microsoft Flight Simulator had gotten that advanced btw. Apparently you can shadow flights in near real time.
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Haven't read all his stuff, but of what I've read Snow Crash is the fastest paced. Great opening grabs you right away. Worth reading for it's own sake, not just the cultural references everyone uses.
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FWIW I think the most interesting bits of Snowcrash have nothing to do with “metaverses” — the reflection on the formation of language and its impact on human cognition was fascinating. Many other great books under the sun, however.
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The first 1/3 is absolutely worth it. Neal got longer with each book, so maybe even the first 1/2 or 2/3. (But definitely the first 1/3)