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I think about this in the context of bubbles and AI and everything going on.

Just remember the buzz around VR from what, five to seven years ago.

And how much money was pouring into it, how big companies were, including Microsoft and Facebook

slash meta, were changing their entire business models around this belief and concept

that we're all going to use VR.

Now, I was always somewhat skeptical on this because...

Because you threw up when you were...

I just don't like glasses.

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I want to talk about the Major League Baseball automated ball strike system.

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