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user-inactivated · 2946 days ago · link · · parent · post: Geoffrey A. Fowler: Oculus Rift Review: VR’s Rising Star Isn’t Ready for the Mainstream
I don't think VR and AI being perpetually on the horizon is really akin to fusion breakeven. VR and AI are always on the horizon because what you can imagine is always beyond what you can do; the cheerleaders promise magic, and the things we understand (and so can implement) are never magical. They have a hype problem. Fusion breakeven means pretty much what an ignorant person with a dictionary would think it means, it doesn't have a hype problem. It has a physics problem.