Jay Leno visited SpaceX to interview Elon Musk. The quick trailer on Jay Lenos Twitter channel shows them debating Raptor Engines, used in SpaceX’s rockets. In the converation, Elon Musk takes a hot take on patents. He claims the company ain’t using the mechanism, that won’t help progressing anywhere. His take is patents are meant to keep others from progressing along. My bubble will appreciate.
In case you were wondering. Corellium shared on twitter they’ve jailbroken iOS16 on iPhone 14 Pro.
The Metaverse is uncharted land. A big bet for many. Because it opens up so many new opportunities, that lie in the virtual and the physical world. MuTalk is concerned about your voice in public. With goggles on, it’s impossible to note who’s around you. Anything expressed in such a setting can end a leak to bystanders.
To let you immerse into the Metaverse on, say, a train platform while you wait for your commute, MuTalk now allows you to do virtual meetings with your corporate colleagues without risking your privacy.
MuTalk is a bizarre-looking Bluetooth microphone that lets you chat privately in public thanks to its sound absorption material.
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The Metaverse is huge opportunity, that attracts lucky knights.
Source: Shiftall’s Voice Suppression Mic Coming Later This Year – VRScout
We know Facebook has big plans for the Metaverse. The company even rebranded as Meta to underline it’s ambition. On Labstalk, we almost spent the entire season discussing benefits and goals of the technology, alongside with all the other tech topics in the same space, like Web3, NFTs and DOAs.
Back to Meta (the company) and the Metaverse: among others, one of the foundational use-cases the company re-imagines – to make it attractive to the promising B2B market: virtual or remote meetings.
And if you ever get to see any of the promotional images: At first glance, these that really look like a meeting in a 3D Room can be a viable alternative. In the pandemic the corporate workforce first came from plenty of travel and got force-used to Zoom and Teams meetings, only to develop even worse meeting fatigue because in-person required travel. Now after almost three years of pandemic, the audience is eager for something new and the time seems right for a different format.
Alone: the hype doesn’t materialise.
Parmy Olson from Bloomberg reports that Accenture, among other companies that are reference customers to Facebook/Meta’s Occulus platform, bought plenty of gear, 60k devices, some as long as 2 years ago. To use these devices for new hire orientation. AstraZeneca, another major customer, wouldn’t even comment.
The virtual conference room needs to die. VR is better used for fun and building relationships.
Source: Meta’s VR Headset Quest Won’t Replace Zoom – Bloomberg
A major reason for the lack of momentum I can confirm from own experiences is the bad reputation Facebook/Meta has for their perspectives on privacy and handling of sensitive data. The ‘surveillance capitalism’ approach the company takes with this new technology and economy bet becomes apparent in the pricing strategy for these Occulus devices. The Facebook/Meta (or ‘surveillance’)-free version of the device, that appears technically identical, is about 30% more expensive, according to sources in well informed circles.
Personally, I believe in the concept but can re-affirm these concerns and understand the restraints that come alongside the curiosity. While the investments that Meta makes in the technology help the hardware make necessary progress towards user-acceptance, other players need to step in and provide applications to help solve corporate acceptance.
Irgendwie verfolgt mich Welle:Erdball gefühlt schon mein ganzes Leben, obwohl die Formation nie richtig Mittelpunkt meiner Aufmerksamkeit war. Zum ersten Mal wahrgenommen habe ich die deutschsprachige Elektropop-Band bei einer meiner ersten Demoparties. Das muss ca. 1997 gewesen sein, Mekka Symposium in Fallingbostel bei Hannover. Dem Publikum habe ich das Duo kulturell sehr nahe bzw. sogar verwandt wahrgenommen. Und irgendwie hat mich die Auffassung der Szene genausowenig losgelassen wie die Musik. Und so kommt alle paar Jahre was neues von Welle:Erdball in meine Filterblase. So wie gestern Drogenexzess im Musikexpress. Es ist immer noch nicht komplett meine Musik und trotzdem kann ich mich irgendwie ein paar Tage für den sehr speziellen Synth-Sound erwärmen:
Nachdem in Twitter und allen anderen Medien alle durchdrehen zu scheinen, scheint die kurze Durchsage der Denkfabrik Ember Climate bei tagesschau.de hier nicht unwichtig:
Mitten in der Gaskrise ist in der EU in diesem Sommer so viel Solarstrom produziert worden wie nie zuvor. Allein in Deutschland kam nach einer Studie knapp ein Fünftel des erzeugten Stroms von der Sonne.
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Source: Stromproduktion in der EU: So viel Solarstrom wie noch nie
Dan Schkade has been around on Twitter. Since the 140s. He knows the game. Inside Out. And he shares his experience in this quick twitter detective cartoon.
Remember the great resignation? It’s a tradition!
This is entirely fine. It‘s a success story for Boston Dynamics. Probably. Most likely, there is nothing to see here. Move along.
The C64 was the most popular home computer of all time. Imagine the success it could possibly have had with Apple‘s marketing department. @gregnacu on twitter had a vision.