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Tech giants are spending $700 billion to make AI a utility — but they can't even get the power turned on. AI could become even more ubiquitous. (moneywise.com)
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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

3D video did serve as a legitimate stepping stone for things like Virtual Reality headsets and heads up displays for vehicles, so I don't think it was a total waste.

The rest of the buzzwords are relatively obscure in the grand scheme of progress though (unless by The Cloud you mean VPS services/storage solutions, which are almost ubiquitous)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    3D video isn’t a stepping stone for VR. It’s just one application that VR excels at.

    It’s like saying photographs are a stepping stone for screens.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    Image projection where the brain combines two separate images into one cohesive picture by filling in the gaps is absolutely 3D video's territory, and expansion on that concept was at the very least utilized in the development of VR headsets.

    Now, they aren't one to one, of course, but lessons learned from 3D video were certainly used in modern VR development (and perhaps adjacent to 3D video's at the time).

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