by crissly | Nov 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Long before Facebook officially renamed itself Meta—a signal to the world that it was getting more serious about virtual and augmented reality technologies—the company had started to reveal key parts of its envisioned metaverse. Its Meta Quest 2 (née Oculus Quest 2)...
by crissly | Oct 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
Facebook may be mired in scandals at present, but today it attempted to shift the public’s attention toward the future—specifically, a future built around an even more omnipresent Facebook. At Facebook Connect, the company’s annual developer’s conference, today, chief...
by crissly | Aug 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
The robot was not at all real. Or it was very real, depending on whether you believe realness is closely related to physiology or whether you think this whole reality is a simulation. Which is to say, the robot was actually a human cosplaying as a humanoid robot. The...
by crissly | Sep 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Most of the early smart home inventions used automatic controls, making it possible to turn something or off without lifting a finger. But they didn’t connect to anything else, and their functionality was limited. That would begin to change in 1983 when ARPANET, the...
