cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/39876981
Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them
They failed making VR, so now they’re a defense contractor for AR. Wonderful.
All military personnel will require Facebook accounts to use Meta AR goggles.
How have they failed? they have the best value for $ headset.
Metas failed game(s?) are legendary. Plus, you know, account requirements.
I might just be a massive god damn nerd, but I would rather build my own with an old Pixel, a printer, and a Pi. If I can’t be up to my elbows in its guts, from board to code, then it isn’t mine.
By sinking ludicrous amounts of money into the „metaverse“, which turned out to be an utter flop.
This interview with Palmer Luckey about the news is wild to listen to, if that’s your thing.
You don’t hear many openly conservative tech billionaires talking like he does.
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Autonomous warplanes “that fly missions alongside human pilots”.
I’m sure they’ll keep the humams involved. No way they’re trying to build a drone army that won’t question orders.
It’s not hyperbole to say they’re working toward a terrestrial version of Equilibrium. At least, until they can build it in space.
Autonomous warplanes
heyyyyyy… i’ve seen this before…
As another person replied, sounds like the Faro Plague from Horizon Zero Dawn.
Seems more like Horizon Zero Dawn to me. I wonder what tech billionaire will play the role of Ted Faro and destroy everything!
That thing which runs Tesla seems like just the megalomaniac that would let that happen. I have a dark future prediction that he’ll repurpose the gigafactories for drone production. Unless something stops him I don’t see a future where one of his businesses isn’t rededicated to war manufacturing in some way.
Also: I felt thick as hell when I connected Faro and Pharoh.
Gosh, they’re burning billions every quarter? Fuck those nerds at meta must be having an absolutely wild time pretending to work on VR…
Most of the smart people who came with Oculus left and it shows.
I’m just surprised they weren’t before.
Why aren’t the “fiscal conservatives” in arms over this?
Best decision ever for a company.
The US gov pisses away billions of their taxpayers money and buys all the low quality crap from the MIL without questions.so meta
Pyro goggles with Disney filter.
