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Actually participating in commerce is considered a pillar in defining a liberal democracy, in the words of John Locke, so I would say that is a right.

What are the alternatives for aspiring tinkerers now?

My wife (cybernetics engineer) and I are buying a 3D printer and planned getting an Arduino as an entry point. What should we do instead? What are the best communities and resources?

That might be precisely why OpenAI is pushing an over investment in infrastructure. When VCs are no longer willing to substitute compute, having more compute available than natural demand will drive the prices down.

Agree! We saw this a lot. Launching with the Quest 3, we were often the first company to do X, Y, Z despite being months after new features had been released in the SDKs because they were poorly documented (and often even conflicting).

Diverging even slightly from the demo use case would quickly feel like Sisyphus; so close, but never succeeding in getting over the hill.

Good for marketing in certain cases (to be the first), but bad for the community of builders

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Workshops are an important part of our toolkit, but after everything went remote we felt an absence of deep human connection. Without body language, it’s much harder to be seen, heard and understood. Great ideas are lost or never found along the way. It feels like we’re being forced to choose between wasting time commuting or letting our work suffer. That’s not right. Everyone should be free to live and work from wherever, and still be able to connect meaningfully with colleagues.

That is what we’re trying to solve by creating Cohere, a VR application created by designers specifically for workshops. We’ve done an initial pilot with some Norwegian companies, and the feedback is promising! Now we want to reach out to see if we can help more people, and would really appreciate any feedback. If you want to see how it works or give us some pointers, please take a look (the typeform is sort of a presentation).