> a viable desktop replacement.

xerox intentionally replicated what the typical office desk 'experience' looked like to create the 'the desktop'; this approach either isn't possible or just hasn't been explored by someone with a headset on

maybe we just need to think of work differently to be productive in an enviornment where we sacrificed horizontal and vertical fidelity for a third dimension?

3d desktops? workframes?

Given the current direction of technology it seems more likely that the need for highly precise and information dense UIs will be reduced, and we will do most of our work by directing agents through language. Where language is not enough we will use custom visualizations and purpose-built UI controls that contain and directly manipulate only the relevant information for the task at hand, constructed on-the-fly. We may not need highly general UIs based on abstractions and metaphors to the physical world anymore.

makes me think of https://accelareader.com/

those LookUp Tables are the most difficult thing to get from a display manufacturer; never thought to let an AI tune one itself using image feedback, incredible!

that space is probably sold to the same ad network by both OSs

how is your proprioception? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception

e.g. if you put your hand behind your back and move it up and down randomly, then stop suddenly, can you tell if it's stopped closer to your legs than your neck?

i cant think of a better test for it :( (clinicians?)

For my part (as someone with aphantasia) my proprioception is good, and to go further, my sense of space and my spatial reasoning is well above average.

I can also draw what I can't see pretty well from memory.

that's interesting too! i can visualize clearly, but have _terrible_ artistic skills; nothing in my head can make it out unless through CAD :)

My drawing style is different from memory, though. Clearer lines, vs closer to impressionist if I draw from something in front of my eye. The difference is quite stark.

Proprioception is good. I was a fairly accomplished high school and college club athlete in sports that require body parts to move out of visual range

interesting! i always have to 'see myself' in my head to answer those kinds of questions

yea but so comfortable :(

no other shoe could carry my feet for miles with no outwardly visible branding

if not yet then it may be achievable:

https://www.guru3d.com/story/nvidia-dgx-spark-achieves-175-f...

> thought the guns were real, called the cops, and the cops screwed up and shot one of the kids?

you dont need a Waymo for that :(

The scenario has 3 problems. The surveillance by Wayno, the US police propensity for shooting people and kids having guns.

Wayno picked a difficult market.

> extreme success of any kind to tip someone into a kind of religious psychosis, a belief that one is some kind of main character in history or possessed of a divine mandate.

there was a part in Wolf of Wall Street where the main character mentions that money not only allows you to buy better food, buy better cars, buy better clothes, but also allows you to buy better friends, buy better politicians...

obvs didnt turn out the way they intended, and money isnt the only way to shape history, but it seems to make things easier (for a short while at least (until the next guy with money pays to undo yours))

.. i guess money is a cheap moat haha..

Money doesn't buy you better friends.

> The problem is the the unpredictability, because there are plenty of catastrophic results too, and we don't really know why.

i can think of a way to find out :)

we'll have to take it in stages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial