Wed. 02/14 – Zuck Has His Own Social Media Post About The Vision Pro

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🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Even Mark Zuckerberg is posting about the Apple Vision Pro. In short: he’s not impressed. Walmart might buy a smart TV maker for the ads. Y Combinator has a new list of the type of startups it wants to see. Maybe don’t give all your secrets to those AI “girlfriend” bots. And why you might have a hard time getting an Uber after your Valentine’s Day dinner tonight. Links: After trying the Vision Pro, Mark Zuckerberg says Quest 3 ‘is the better product, period’ (The Verge) Walmart in Talks to Buy TV Maker Vizio (WSJ) Walmart Eyeing Deal to Buy Vizio for More Than $2 Billion: Report (Variety) Y Combinator Seeks Startups in Robotics, Space and Defense (Bloomberg) OpenAI Researcher Andrej Karpathy Departs (The Information) Apple’s Longest-Serving Designer to Depart Company, Adding to Exodus (Bloomberg) Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show (Gizmodo) Uber, Lyft drivers to strike on Valentine’s Day over pay (Washington Post) YouTube Of Bluesky CEO Interview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, February 14th, 2024.
0:08.0	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.2	Even Mark Zuckerberg is posting online about the Apple Vision Pro.
0:13.4	In short, he's not impressed.
0:15.5	Walmart might buy a smart TV maker for the ads.
0:19.1	Why Combinator has a new list of the type of startups it wants to see. Maybe don't give all your secrets to those
0:24.4	AI girlfriend bots and why you might have a hard time getting an Uber after your Valentine's
0:29.1	Day dinner tonight. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:41.0	Even Mark Zuckerberg can't resist giving his two cents on the Apple Vision Pro on social media. In a video posted to his Instagram account,
0:44.1	Zuck shared his thoughts on the Vision Pro saying,
0:47.0	his horse in this race, the Quest 3, quote,
0:50.5	is the better product period, highlighting Apple's trade-offs and more.
0:55.0	Quoting the verge.
0:56.0	While being filmed by the Quest 3's video pass-through system
0:59.0	in his living room,
1:00.0	Zuckerberg highlights the trade-offs Apple made
1:02.0	to get the fanciest display possible into
1:03.7	something that can be worn on your head in an acceptable form factor.
1:07.7	He says the Quest 3 weighs 120 grams less, making it more comfortable to wear for longer.
1:13.7	He also says it allows for greater motion due to its lack of a wired battery pack and wider
1:18.1	field of view than the Vision Pro.
1:20.6	He thinks the Quest's option of physical hand controllers and hand tracking for input is better,
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