That NYTimes article recently did the same thing. Anyone that is serious about understanding the state of VR, but has no experience with VRChat is a huge red flag to me. You don't have to like the culture on VRC(I don't love it), but it is where most of the content and players are. In a way it could a good sign that VR is becoming more accessible, but it's still a bit annoying.

> but it is where most of the content and players are

Is this true? I have VR but I don't enjoy it as a social hangout space for example. Why do you think that most players are interested in that type of content?

I don’t enjoy VRChat myself. It’s essentially VR Roblox but not for kids, or an eventual evolution of Second Life for anyone that remembers it. Furries and anime aside, it is just not my thing.

That said, VRChat is probably the closest thing to being what people think of as the metaverse, and that’s why it’s useful to get familiar with it even if it’s not for you

I don't do VR, and VRChat is pretty much the only thing I've heard of people actually using from multiple friends and co-workers.

There is an obvious bias of more social people being more likely to play more social games as well as more likely to talk about playing them.

This looks beautiful! Slap a trackpoint in the middle and I will buy 3.

This is something I have been think about for the past 10 year as well. If we can get enough cheap power production, incinerating toilets seem interesting. And the growth satellite internet is a big win for this area.

And then we have companies like Space Mobile trying to essentially put cell phone towers in low earth orbit which will (hopefully) enable 4G/5G coverage all over the globe.

I have lived on a street with a street car for the past 3 years and I disagree with your perspective. I live in a different city, so variables are probably very different in a lot of ways. I find large trucks and motorcycles as the largest disturbances in my daily life (I work from home mostly). The train absolutely makes noise and shakes the house, but it's predictable. I no longer set alarms and I can use it to run my errands. And it is way better for the air around me than cars. Most of the US lives in a mono-culture for transportation and cars are pretty expensive.

In my case, the street car noise was roughly comparable to a garbage truck, but much more frequent. Significantly louder than a diesel bus though, and not as flexible. Better than diesel buses are trolley-buses; electric buses that use overhead power lines like the trolley, but with rubber road tires instead of train rails. Those are really quite, but aren't as flexible with rerouting as diesel buses. But between the trolley-buses and diesel buses, I think streetcars don't have much of a niche. I just don't see why a city today would opt to install streetcars if they could use trolley-buses instead.

Motorcycles are definitely the worst offenders though. Not all motorcycles are loud, but the loud ones are really loud.

Hopefully I can use this to print a cheap-ish shed or small barn in 30 years.

Been using spotify since they launched a beta in the US (11 years ago?), but them constantly pushing services that are not music on their platform, and populating their recommended playlists cheaper-per-play songs, I am actively looking to move.

And was the best bathroom reading pre-smartphones.

Misread this as 'dyeing' and was very confused.

I have started switching away from streaming services as well. Thanks for recommending Plexamp. It's awesome.

Hopefully this develops into a handheld, so I can use this to paint the walls in my house without spending hours taping.

There are a lot of (quite limited) handheld ink printers on aliexpress ))

I searched but didn’t come up with anything I’d buy. Have a link handy?

From TFA: > the new method works without electrostatics, relying instead on jet application.

True, my bad, read the exact opposite.