All the reviews I've read of the new Apple VR headset have a similar critique: That entering text -- via the on-screen keyboard -- is clunky and not very useful.

I haven't seen any reviews that focus on the speech-to-text capabilities of this device. Seems to me this thing could actually read your lips if it wanted to. W/ a half-dozen or so built-in mics, It certainly can hear you just fine. Seems like Apple should be focusing a lot more on improving speech recognition because Siri has been underwhelming (esp. since she started requiring an internet connection to work at all). Maybe someone knows of a review that is focused on this aspect?

I've played with apps on several existing VR systems that do virtual desktop and other things that claim to be productivity apps, but they all suck when it comes to entering and/or displaying text. Which seems like kind of a big fail, and really limits the utility of these apps.

There's a huge disconnect for me rn in the IT space. Companies love to talk about an increasing deficit of smart, talented and skillful people available to help defend the cybers. Welp, a lot of those people are somehow now seeking gainful employment bc they've been laid off. Which is just nuts to me given the sheer scale, resources and effort our adversaries are throwing at everything now.

p.s. AI isn't going to fix anyone's security problems. If anything, it's going to compound them by orders of magnitude (at least in terms of data governance).

WOPR [“WarGames” (1983)]: “A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”

OpenAI GPT-4 [2023]: “Yee-haw! Nuke ‘em till they glow!”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2415488-ai-chatbots-tend-to-choose-violence-and-nuclear-strikes-in-wargames/

#LLMs #AI #chatbots #GlobalThermoclearWar #war

Tell me you've never helped seniors with tech, without telling me you've never helped seniors with tech.

And I don't just mean the person answering this question. I also mean whoever decided to remove this option.