7/7/24
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, solarpunk --ar 3:2
How and where would I spend my time in AR/VR? I get the sense that spatial computing currently in this weird space of ambiguous positivity - everyone likes it and wants it but for no particular use case. I think a lot of dumb money is gonna get torched in this overall bucket of flower power spatial computing nonsense. That said, while we won’t know ex ante what the dominant applications or hardware of the new platform will look like, I do think we can begin to reason about what new genetic material those applications will carry.
I would generally say that products native to new platforms largely emerge by utilizing some input/mechanic that is new to that platform. The big winners of the mobile age were apps that leveraged the camera, the GPS chip, the gyroscope & accelerometer, touchpad input, etc - all inputs that were not available before on the desktop. These were novel genotypes that - in the right environment - results in new phenotypes and therefore ecological domination of new niches. Let’s then consider what are the new genotypes of spatial computing - these may give us a glimpse of what the downstream phenotypes might look like.
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