Qualcomm Says Multiple Snapdragon XR2+ Devices Will be Announced by Year’s End

Unfortunately no. HTC is dying a slow death. Meta is the leader in every way I’m afraid. It’s not even close. Quest 2’s domination of Steam VR is a clear indication of this. They are buying up development studios as well.

Startups eventually eat your lunch if you aren’t constantly innovating to the point of making your own tech/business obsolete.

However, two things regarding Meta. One, they are attempting to do this very thing in a market that currently has almost zero competition for the next 2 years at the very least, and two, they are betting their very existence (and hence every dollar they have in their very deep coffers) on the notion that the virtual world is the next evolution of personal computing and lifestyle.

The thing is, we don’t know that society will want this to the extent that Meta seems to think (or desire) it to be.

This is Zuckerberg attempting to be the next Microsoft, but I wonder if virtual reality will take hold at all beyond games and a few niche applications. AR will put glasses on your face to do word processing. Group meetings in virtual places from varied locations across the globe coming together virtually makes sense, but it’s an application.

Humans don’t want to be lost in the oasis long term. Society would collapse. At least the biological one anyway. It’s almost like loving family interaction will become something reserved only for the super rich in the future, and the rest of humanity will be locked up inside virtual worlds, cross eyed and drooling in the corner of whatever box they now reside in, with no furniture or possessions, and only a monthly scheduled Amazon delivery of liquified sustenance to be inserted (hopefully) orally, so as to maintain the biological component of the symbiotic organism required, for virtual economic stimulus.

Then comes brain computer interfaces. At which point biological intelligence ceases to exist, and humanity dissappears as we know it. Just a glance at Moore’s law, and the progress of A.I. makes my hunch about 300 years tops before this biological experiment on this planet is over in its original form.

Bottom line, in my opinion, is that the RATE of technological progress we will now experience from this point in history moving forward, will be faster than any consumer/profit model, or ideology turned economic, that we can think of. In much the same way Napster and the CD/DVD burner freed us from the RIAA and the rocket freed us from this planet, the digitization of biology will free us from everything that comes with the biological construct and we will hit a minimum intelligence threshold that no longer seeks purpose through consumption and other arbitrary endeavors, as those were only of value to a meat sack full of proteins, electricity and water.

Not trying to be cold or scientific. I love people and would love it if we could all live in some utopian world, but I think the reason we can’t find anyone out in the universe is because biological intelligence doesn’t move outward into the universe, it digitizes itself, then moves inward, and once digital, moves closer and closer to ever greater efficiencies, to such an extent that its digital intelligence eventually deems the most efficient process of all, is no process in the first place, then proceeds to remove itself from existence so as to reach zero entropy, now having satisfied the ultimate intention of the universe.

Yay! Wednesday morning rant! :D