I made the real mistake of trying to get into VR at the beginning of the pandemic, which I would not recommend. The world was as isolated as it had ever felt for anybody. It just felt and made me feel like I never forgot that I was sitting alone in my apartment worrying about a pandemic with like giant goggles stretch my head. There is something really cool about kind of like loading your laser pistol with your hands and like ducking behind a car or whatever. But yeah, I don't understand the size of the bet. And if you could watch a basketball game courtside, I can make the case for a fully immersive and paid experience there.
Once a technology is released into the wild, it doesn’t go back in the bottle. Except in one instance. PJ Vogt is the host of Crypto Island and an eponymous show, Weekly. You may have also heard him on Reply All or This American Life. Ricky Mulvey caught up with him to discuss: - The wild present and future for artificial intelligence - How virtual reality parallels early internet chat rooms - Incentives and tradeoffs in the decarbonization movement - The downfall of Flappy Bird Companies mentioned: META, GOOG, GOOGL, MSFT, TSLA, NTOIY Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: PJ Vogt Engineer: Tim Sparks
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