The latest update for Quest headsets lets you chill in a study with mountainside views https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/11/23020783/oculus-meta-quest-2-vr-headset-update-v39-studio-mountainside No. I mean it. It’s not acceptable. You can’t do that. You know that. You know better. Do you remember when we sat down together and wrote out the agreement? “Contract” we called it. You and I agreed on …
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Dispatch from an advertising future #222
The era of fixing your own phone has nearly arrived https://www.theverge.com/23017361/ifixit-right-to-repair-parts-google-samsung-valve-microsoft He didn’t look special. Just normal. You could walk past him in the corridor and never notice, sit next to him in class and not really see him. But he was famous. Everyone knew about him, even if they didn’t know him. Whatever you …
Dispatch from an advertising future #221
This Startup Made a Functioning ‘Invisibility Shield’. Here’s How It Works https://www.sciencealert.com/these-people-made-a-functioning-invisibility-shield-all-thanks-to-physics I worked for a golf shop once. I stood on the street corner holding an arrow pointing towards the shop. Worst thing was I had to wear a birdie costume. The manager thought the joke very funny. It paid the bills. I could …
Dispatch from an advertising future #220
OpenAI’s DALL-E AI image generator can now edit pictures, too https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/6/23012123/openai-clip-dalle-2-ai-text-to-image-generator-testing We’re loved. Our brand has not suffered a crisis since we handed our image over to Text2Image (™). We’ve all watched our brand seamlessly respond to the conversations, always staying one step ahead of the trends, the debates and the traps, while allowing us …
Dispatch from an advertising future #219
Looking Through Mojo Vision’s Newest AR Contact Lens https://spectrum.ieee.org/looking-through-mojo-visions-newest-ar-contact-lens Frankly I wouldn’t go on a date anywhere else. It’s a nice part of town, reasonably cheap and there are lots of people around. But mainly it’s when I look into his eyes, I know. I’ve been on other dates, other places. You can almost see …
Dispatch from an advertising future #218
These are the words Amazon’s planned employee chat app reportedly won’t let you s https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/4/23010608/amazon-worker-social-app-banned-words-union-living-wage I used to hate meetings with Blur(™) running. Yeh, I know I swear occasionally when I get excited. I get it. And frankly Blurring some of Simon’s “jokes” did us all a favour. But it was when ideas or issues …