@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 19 days agoThis is the “world’s first” phone call made using spatial audiowww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down124
arrow-up190arrow-down1external-linkThis is the “world’s first” phone call made using spatial audiowww.theverge.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 19 days agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish52•19 days ago90% of the features in your daily life started as something no one asked for or needed. I remember people saying this about touch screens.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish39•19 days agoIn some applications, people still say that about touch screens and they are not wrong. Spatial Audio can be cool. In this application? I’m unconvinced.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish39•19 days agoFucking touchscreens on cars is definitely something nobody should have access to.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•18 days agoI totally wouldn’t be surprised if there originally were people being like “So what’s this so-called ‘cupboard’ supposed to solve? Why isn’t a regular shelf good enough for you?”
minus-square🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️linkfedilinkEnglish4•18 days agoWas anyone asking for the telegraph before it was invented? Or the telephone? Or the Internet? Or smartphones? Or social media?
minus-square🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️linkfedilinkEnglish4•18 days agoAnd inventions are features of your daily life. 🤦♂️
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•18 days agoI don’t necessarily endorse the viewpoint of Noel Gallagher but it is pretty funny.
90% of the features in your daily life started as something no one asked for or needed. I remember people saying this about touch screens.
In some applications, people still say that about touch screens and they are not wrong.
Spatial Audio can be cool. In this application? I’m unconvinced.
Fucking touchscreens on cars is definitely something nobody should have access to.
90%?
[Citation needed]
I totally wouldn’t be surprised if there originally were people being like “So what’s this so-called ‘cupboard’ supposed to solve? Why isn’t a regular shelf good enough for you?”
Was anyone asking for the telegraph before it was invented? Or the telephone? Or the Internet? Or smartphones? Or social media?
Those are not features, those are whole ass inventions
And inventions are features of your daily life. 🤦♂️
I don’t necessarily endorse the viewpoint of Noel Gallagher but it is pretty funny.