This response is exactly right!

But all of those things amount to a drop in the bucket compared to Google now serving AI results and ChatGPT answering everything you could want without going to a single actual website.

That is how AI is killing the Internet, or at least human viewable websites that require some kind of ad or other revenue to keep going. Without those what will future AI be trained on or RAG to for new information and human learning? By destroying the Internet it's also destroying itself.

I'm happy for the ruling. The chief difference between Apple and Android is there is NO WAY to sideload apps on the iPhone. If you don't like Android's store, and can get people to find a url to your app, they can install it directly. That has never been the case with Apple, and they can arbitrarily deny store access. The chief difference between Apple and Sony/MS game consoles is the Playstation and Xbox hardware are sold at or below their COGS. So their cut of the store is al the revenue they get for those products. Apple on the other hand profits handsomely on every iPhone, in addition to the cut they require of every app. To people that say Apple can do what they want or people can switch to Android if they don't like it... Apple intentionally makes it difficult to leave their ecosystem, with lockin between their phones and computers and online services. They've also acted anticompetitively by make common services (such as cellular texting, in the case of iMessage) appear worse to and from Android phones. As an app developer, it's obvious that Apple's rules have benefitted them more financially than the developers providing apps for the iPhone, and am for a more equitable split of consumer dollars based on the effort and value each side provides. Apple is entitled to their share for providing and supporting their platform, and listing on their store. But the cost of that compared to development and marketing costs by developers is far less than 30%.

He was working on PS5 Pro https://blog.playstation.com/2... Cerny is probably the smartest guy in gaming. His ICE code for PS2 in-house engine made me giddy--the guy doesn't think in code he thinks in hardware.

30 year and still active app/website/database/game/VR/simulation programmer here. Cursor + Claude has made me 3x more productive after learning ways to get the best results. It's a different experience, more like getting a fast but junior programmer to code what you want, and absolutely does not absolve you from good architecture, algorithm design, and testing. But we are only hiring coders interested and able to learn how to use AI effectively. Tips for early 2025: do not get into discussions with your AI tools, use rules that describe your whole program goals, open a new context for every task, and don't ask for anything you couldn't do in 20 min at a shot.

My company is actively looking for coders that know how to design and direct AI to write quality code faster. AI can't do those things for you, and a project manager can't yet do everything with AI for themselves. If you don't have those traits you'd better learn them.

Pretty big ask! I'm just happy that visionOS 2 will remember Guest user hands and eyes. I hope it automatically detects a new Guest user too. Sharing the Vision Pro now is highly non-optimal without those.

Sad to not see more /. interest in this. Hopefully it's a sign of XR becoming less futuristic and more commonplace.

1. * 90 hz low-latency color passthrough will finally enable decent AR applications, compared to additive projections with limited FOV.
2. * The industrial design could also be winner. Compact lenses make it smaller while keeping adjustable IPD, open sides allow environment awareness which is even useful in VR, and PSVR-style headband with flip-up lens and rear battery offers best comfort and usability.
3. * Hand-tracking with IR cameras like the Kinect could allow for better low and bright light environments, faster hand movement, and tracking while gripping things. Strong enough IR cameras could provide automatic room-scale occlusion for AR, but they would likely kill battery.

It doesn't have every possible improvement, like eye tracking or larger FOV, but those are the right trade-offs. Fixed foveated rendering works well enough, and rendering performance for wide FOVs will need more than foveation, like next-gen AI to fill in low detail areas.

All these features could be coming to future headsets from Facebook and Apple, but only Lynx shows it working now and has put a ship date and price on it. $500 is more than Quest 2 but is probably the lowest anyone could go.

Agree 100%. Was a huge fan of the original series and this movie did it justice and beyond!