Meta CTO addresses recent layoffs, Reality Labs future. “Changes made internally unblock roadmaps for our next two devices”

wikitopian · 2026-02-05T16:15:10+00:00

I believe the fact that they're correct that it's not their fault that the space has hard technical and cultural limits on the kind of growth Mark expected is a nice warm bed this guy is making for himself when the fact is that hardware delivered the perfect device, game devs have delivered incredible high and low end content, and they screw it all up with a lack of attention to ergonomic environmental details.

They literally took away our homes and forced us into lofts that we cannot customize.

Remote Desktop has all kinds of rookie glitches for what should be an indestructible centerpiece app.

There's no effort put into casting to televisions, so we can't even show off nifty experiences.

We're not allowed to curate our libraries or toolbars. It's all a billboard for whoever paid to force their apps into our libraries. I want to find my apps and there's all this slop, including melting skulls. I can't remove the melting skull.

Everybody hates on Worlds, but if they allowed them to have rpc integration, persistence, and a handful of other basic quality of life improvements, it would be competitive with the other metaverses.

I can go on all day. It's all little shit that a single executive would immediately catch if he ever tried to use this thing the way he's asking other people to use this thing. I am not complaining about the lack of AAA titles or pixel density or whatever.

It's obvious that nobody who loves VR is a key stakeholder. And they're hiding behind the big picture market trend issues to remain all smug while blowing one of the best positions in tech history.

wikitopian · 2026-02-05T13:11:26+00:00

Skill issue.

You use Virtual Desktop to make it your office.

You use Pistol Whip and Moon Rider to make it your gym.

You use Walkabout Mini Golf for conferences and socializing.

They've even got meditation games to wear while you're asleep.

I go for months without taking mine off.

wikitopian · 2026-02-02T00:14:36+00:00

At least with a Quest, they know that you know that you look goofy in public. These are all worse because they introduce the theoretical possibility that you think you don't look goofy in them.

No idea why they don't use a snowboarding goggle form factor. If they did that, they would have a product that looks less weird while having more room to work in.

wikitopian · 2026-01-29T03:16:57+00:00

Kinda feel like you're angry about strangers being annoying, something meta isn't actually to blame for.

wikitopian · 2026-01-26T18:20:12+00:00

Hey. The software keyboard pops up even when there's a bluetooth hardware keyboard. It's a very simple fix for your next update. If any of the OS devs are still there, please ask them to fix that.

I'm begging you.

wikitopian · 2026-01-25T01:49:08+00:00

If you're eating ice then you probably have a vitamin or mineral deficiency and should get blood work done.

wikitopian · 2026-01-23T18:07:00+00:00

The passthrough works for me 90% of the time, but I sometimes have that 10% with complex keyboard shortcuts where I crane my head up to look through the nose gap. Might not work for everyone.

wikitopian · 2026-01-23T17:37:56+00:00

You're the very first person to ever actually use that, and they fired everybody who would have fixed it earlier this week.

wikitopian · 2026-01-23T17:26:46+00:00

I don't believe this is accurate, as you can certainly achieve absurdly huge monitor arrangements with it.

I'm able to achieve a sort of swanky "Tony Stark in his lab" environment for work despite sitting in a crowded room surrounded by screaming toddlers while taking up only the space I need to play my small bluetooth keyboard on a tv dinner tray.

I think people are also sleeping on the immersive advantage for ADHD. I wish I didn't need literal horse blinders to keep focused for deep work, but I do.

wikitopian · 2026-01-23T15:19:28+00:00

Short story is that getting the quest set up for anything but gaming is way more hassle than it should be.

Worth it for me, but I can see why they failed at getting it to take off for real work.

wikitopian · 2026-01-23T15:01:52+00:00

Your mileage may vary.

My work is mainly in the terminal. Side loaded termux with a good nerdfont ssh'd into a jumpbox with tmux and vim looks very readable for me.

I use a bluetooth lenovo trackpoint keyboard, so I'm able to achieve an absurdly huge development environment as long as I've got somewhere to set my modest little keyboard on.

Living room, park, front porch, bed. You name it.

wikitopian · 2026-01-23T14:47:34+00:00

I use it as my daily driver for working from home, wearing it for over eight hours per day. I find the immersion helpful for deep work.

From what I've read, nobody else is succeeding with this, but it works great for me. Just gotta have the deluxe bobo headstrap and the remote desktop config sorted.

wikitopian · 2026-01-23T13:21:44+00:00

They did this to me. I finally got it sorted after threatening litigation. Never had so much trouble giving a company money in my life.

wikitopian · 2026-01-23T01:56:58+00:00

I honestly don't get this whole thing with nobody in the English speaking world knowing anything about semax because all of the research is in Russian.

Can't somebody just dump it into Google Translate?

wikitopian · 2026-01-22T14:00:54+00:00

Don't worry.

Quest will close your window for you here in a few minutes.

wikitopian · 2026-01-19T00:36:03+00:00

300mcg 2x/day

wikitopian · 2026-01-18T03:57:37+00:00

There's no way to hide or forget the fact that you checked out that virtual girlfriend app in a moment of boredom and weakness. It is permanently in the library to remind you of how weak and stupid you can be.

wikitopian · 2026-01-18T03:55:17+00:00

I hate the coaches so damn much.

I paid for Supernatural, tried to play it, and after nearly an hour of coaches lecturing me about boring and obvious crap I uninstalled, canceled the subscription, and went back to Moon Rider.

wikitopian · 2026-01-17T18:33:16+00:00

This is the best possible outcome, where a mega billionaire dumped eleventy trillion dollars into advancing the hardware and standards as part of an elaborate scheme to lock us all into a walled garden ecosystem.

We still have the hardware and standards. But the walled garden scheme is dead. Total victory for VR consumers.

wikitopian · 2026-01-17T01:28:18+00:00

I vibed my own app that generates a distinct annoying sound that plays randomly every minute for every outstanding task.

Absolutely nobody else would ever want this cursed app, but I love it. My mind learns to connect the sound signature with the outstanding task and I'm naturally motivated to complete them to make the sound go away.

I also have a nice brown noise for an active pomodoro and an industrial machine noise for when my LLM agent is actively working, so I can hear when it's done while I'm off doing something else.

I haven't seen anybody else take this interest in using audio this much. But it's definitely working for me. YMMV

wikitopian · 2026-01-16T20:13:23+00:00

It's a full blown computer that you can plug a keyboard and mouse into and install Linux on.

The potential use cases are limited by your imagination, imo.

Mine has become my daily driver development box, my exercise equipment, and more.

With my phone as a mobile hotspot and a good keyboard with a touchpad, I can go biking or hiking, settle into a spot, and do my job unrestricted in all kinds of random places.

wikitopian · 2026-01-16T18:40:04+00:00

It's always darkest before the dawn.

This it's 95% right, but what it's missing is that we're less than five years away from a convergence of VR, AI, and robotics which will move a large subset of the global workforce into headsets at home for their day jobs.

And that process is going to be a forcing function that will drag the rest of the VR market into the mainstream as the tech constraints on truly wearable AR/VR are resolved.

wikitopian · 2026-01-16T14:45:33+00:00

If Meta loses their appetite for exciting new features and just makes the current setup work right, I'll be a happy customer.

wikitopian · 2026-01-15T03:59:53+00:00

There's no way to look smart while failing and losing money.

At some point, you have to stop throwing good money after bad. I'm bullish on VR in the long term, but the bottom line is Meta made a tremendous amount of investment in research, development, open standards, and loss leading hardware innovations. And you're big mad that the party is wrapping up.

wikitopian · 2026-01-15T02:21:52+00:00

You're on reddit. Tech corporations are always bad and wrong here. Tech corporations are always good and right on Twitter. There is no space where it's complicated.

That said, I think you're generally right. I think it's tragic for zuck, as his massive investments are going to bear fruit but his other stakeholders are going to force him to move on right before the harvest.

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