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what’s to like?

…so when do we get wave 2?

I'd be interested in talking to someone who isn't a traitorous fool. But alas, I get you. I don't have to go to Saudi Arabia to know how they are. The news covers it well. And I can read really well too. Goodbye.

There is a problem in that human people WANT/NEED to be doing something of value (as defined by themselves) -- leisure funded by a robot tax will create unhappy people / an unhappy society

If only there were people on the internet that would run tests and tell us if we should avoid the reference cards

Do you have any idea how off base this is?

:( i got the first wave lol luckily no noticeable issues.

Please tell me about your last time visiting Saudi Arabia. I would love to hear about your experiences there that shaped your perception of how they really are.

I’d be interested to know about your firsthand experiences. you know, so that way you could back up the things that you’re saying rather than just parrot what the media has pumped into your head.

Edit: my hypothesis is that you’ve never been and just like to armchair quarterback from the safety of your home.

Obligatory "my Microcenter has a bunch actually."

Idk what you’re talking about, that’s what I’m saying; you wouldn’t use it that way. My point was that somebody whose new to the language might misunderstand that definition and think it fits in the context.

I edited my comment to take people like you into account. Have you ever been called a sellout? Or a traitor? Those Saudis, the vast majority anyway, would like to help wipe Israel off the map. They'd love to kill all "infidels". Particularly Jewish people. Even Jewish people who might not even call Israel home. Yet you do business with them? Pretty sad. I think the entire world should quit doing business with them and their ilk. But thats just me.

It’s a little more complicated than that. We don’t NEED anyone’s oil, we’re a net exporter nowadays… but we do like stability and Saudi Arabia helps keep things stable in an unstable part of the world.

It’s more and than or.

VC startup guy here. As alarmist as this article is written this is really more a case of Magic leap over promising and then getting taken over. They aren't doing well and their sales suck they have been at it for over a decade, it's a question on how long investor patience will last.

Fun fact AR has this unsolved vision blocking paradign.

Imagine a big tablet in your hands with a full screen video playing. Your wife calls you and you look up at her.

Ok now imagine you have a table sized screen floating in front of your face and your wife calls and you are already looking up. She doesn't know you can't see her and you can't see her without pressing buttons or whatever to hide the screen. Inconvenient.

Now imagine your a 737 pilot about to land in bad weather and you get a full screen pop-up that you forgot to check the tire pressure.

If it's small you can work around it but then it's a stamp at arms length. If it's big then no one has solved when you want to pay attention and when you want to not. Typical gauges let you look down at them. At best it solves really niche things like when you want limited headsup info like a speedometer floating while you drive but that's not life changing.

Maybe that’s their plan? First wave are nothing but issues so the bots can buy it and the second wave will get to the real users

Hey, it's not like there are any available on the market anyway

Twitter, now Magic Leap…the Saudi’s love investing in underperforming tech.

I will take the least amount of power to watch my porn and browse reddit

I haven't needed more processing power in my phone in like 6 years, I want better reception and battery life.

“You fools”

Bro, I ain’t Saudi. Just a rich Jewish guy who does business in The Kingdom. I don’t care if you like what I post or not. I’ve been welcomed into their Country and treated very nicely. do I have an issue with our human rights policies? Of course. I don’t judge the people on the actions of their rulers.

Someone in my family worked at Magic Leap. Every employee had a headset and they actually let the employees keep their headsets during the pandemic if they paid the tax, so I bought the headset from the family member for like $300. It's very cool tech and it works decently well. I never had a chance to try their newest one, but I hope they tackled some of the pitfalls of the first one. Anyways, my family member jumped ship because they could see Magic Leap was not being safe with their money. It's a good company with promising tech, but a lack of direction as it constantly shifted back and forth from B2C to B2B markets just trying to find their groove in a place where Microsoft Hololens had already shined.

Sure, I would agree that intentionally disrespecting someone’s religion simply for the sake of disrespecting the religion is in bad taste. But no respectable society would make it punishable by death.

Also, Saudi Arabia takes it a step further by also punishing apostasy (renunciation of one’s religious beliefs) and heresy (expression of religious beliefs that differ from the prevailing orthodoxy) potentially with death. That means Saudi Arabia is one of the least respectful societies of religion.

Maybe you should stop shilling for that backwards regime, or at least do a better job at it.

The Arabs don’t play, remember Sophia?? https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sophia-robot-citizen-womens-rights-detriot-become-human-hanson-robotics