Tadasuke wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:58 pm
Here's a very good long blog explanation article on why VR/MR/AR aren't developed further than they are right now and why they aren't better already:
https://www.matthewball.vc/all/why-vrar ... into-focus
I recommend reading or listening if you are interested in this topic.
From the article:
Just last December, six years after he told Venture Beat that such devices were five to seven years away, Tim Sweeney told Alex Heath, “Well, I think that augmented reality is the platform of the future. But it’s very clear from the efforts of Magic Leap and others that we need not just new technology but, to some extent, new science in order to build an augmented reality platform that’s a substitute for smartphones. And it’s not clear to me whether that’s coming in 10 years or in 30 years. I hope we’ll see it in my lifetime, but I’m actually not sure about that.”
Arguably a new technology is creating that new science - the advancements in AI is paving the way for and already creating new advancements in science. AI has simulated and tested in those simulations all kinds of new designs and new metamaterials with unique properties.We maybe be years away from AGI, but narrow AI may be enough to usher in a new age of progress and innovation all by itself. It takes time and scale to create these new designs and materials AI has come up with and in abundance to be useful and implemented in devices, but just the fact that the mere knowledge the "knowing it can exist and is possible and this is how to do it" is now in our possession has shaved years and perhaps decades away from the process. True they don't exist in our hands now and won't for a few years yet at least, but it's accelerated things from "not in our lifetimes" to "maybe with this decade or maybe within a few decades." In our always "now" perception of time it might not feel like the future has gotten any closer but it indeed has.
All this to say, there's starting to slowly be room for optimism. True, the future isn't here yet, and it's still feeling a lot like the perpetual "it's just a few years away" mindset of the past 20 years, but that perpetual bit might not remain perpetual for very much longer. It might not be a few years away yet, but we're getting to the point where in a few years when the experts repeat the age old mantra of "a few years away" it might actually for the first time ever really just be a few years away from then. I think that's the promise of current AI some of us are missing, the timeline is actually shortening.
