That was fast: MetaGuard emerges as an 'incognito mode' for the metaverse Imagine for a moment that you wanted to spend time in what Meta solipsistically calls the metaverse, a keiretsu of interactive cartoon panoramas powered by commercial surveillance and payment persuasion. That's no small ask, particularly for those who recoil at the cynical rent-seeking foundation supporting virtual reality or …
> if more platforms follow VRChat's lead, it could make it more difficult for those who simply must partake to assert their preference for privacy.
I have a much simpler solution. Much like the original Facebook, I will never use VRChat or any other product from or connected with Meta.
You can not track that which you can not see.
As a bonus I won't have to put up with motion sickness, wearing heavy goggles or being molested by teen pervs. Result!
They're not heavy but yes, the motion sickness. Having not tried VR forever, I finally gave in last Christmas when my nephew bought his kit to my parents. The Star Wars none moving bit was good, even the lobby was quite relaxing. Then I made the stupid mistake, despite disliking them in real life, of trying the roller coaster.
Jesus, it was weird because your head says your sitting still but your eyes and brain sees you're moving so it proper screws with your head. So much so I stopped because I felt sick, went home and went to bed having had to take some motion sickness tablets :)
Apparently sea-sickness is more likely below deck - as your brain can't see the horizon moving to match the inner ear's motion sensor. Any motion can make me nauseous - even walking if sunlight is being dappled through railings or trees.
There was a theory that motion sickness is an evolutionary response to guard against eating alkaloid poison plants. The latter give distorted vision at odds with the inner ear's sensors - and vomiting then ejects the poisonous matter.
Our lives are being corralled and shackled by the IT constraints imposed for necessary services.
UK Barclays Bank have announced changes to their retail customer current account T&Cs. In future you can only have a current account if you supply a mobile number. No mobile number - no account.
Doesn't yet mandate a smart phone - even though they are now always pushing their app for access. It would appear likely that the imminent closure*** of UK 2G and 3G means even "dumb" phones will just be smart phones running apps. I can probably forget my economical £5 a year spend on SMS texts.
***HM government says closure by 2033 - but the major network suppliers are talking about 2023/4.
As I said earlier, the Internet is over: from now on there will be some number of databases. For example, Microsoft is creating its own database right now. For such an AI database profiles on what were previously called websites are needed; annotated images, personal lexical clones of users and AI technology are requered.
Zuckerberg is trying to compete with Microsoft by stealing my patents for the second time. But I won't let him! I can stop whoever: I got an incredible power.
I have my Quantitative Theory — a continuation of Einstein's Theory of Relativism, proven by double-slit and light pressure Lebedev’s experiments. Plus I rewrote Maxwell's equations, first time ever proved by an experiment String Theory, brought Set Theory in Physics, and much more.
You can't steal patents! The payback will be terrible. I’ll stop Zuck, Brin and Page.
Don't mock. We are singularly blessed to have the presence of such an immense intellect grace our humble forums. Why, he/she has apparently rewritten Maxwell's equations, invented half the technologies that power the modern world, proved that P=NP, got through to Directory Enquiries after less than forty rings, had lunch with Rowan Atkinson when he paid and wasn't late, and probably even met a nice South African!
Alternatively it's just a knockoff of AMFM1's stream of consciousness babble, and should be ignored and derided.
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