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Let's get this out of the way: they give a number of #reasons why #webservers "might wish" to establish that a web #client is running on a "#trusted" software stack, including things like "make sure other game players aren't cheating" and "ensure I'm talking to another human".
There are only two things here that #Google cares about:
Having better #evidence that #ad#impressions are being served to actual humans-behind-browsers rather than to #bots. This is because the more certain they can make advertisers feel about this, the more they can #charge for an ad impression.
Ensuring that #users do not use ad blockers, because that hurts the bottom line.
Watched the WWDC keynote last night and the Apple AR headset (or Vision Pro) is finally here. But …
My first (and most lasting) impression was one of loneliness.
A father watching videos of his kids, but there’s no family around, he’s all alone.
A woman watching movies on a huge screen but she’s sitting all alone in a darkened room.
Even the woman using the headset and having somebody come by seems to be so isolated from everything.
I’m sure this is not what Apple intended, but that’s the lasting impression I got.
I went in hoping that Apple would show something that people could share. Where people can consume entertainment together and just share in the joy of doing things together. But that didn’t seem to be what they were aiming for — at least, not with this iteration.
Given the price tag, and the barriers to entry, I think I’ll stick with the Meta Quest 3 for the time being. At least, it’s one seventh the price of Vision Pro 😛 Maybe in a couple of years, things will be different?