The founder recently went on invest like the best and explained it top to bottom, they started as a broke agency and grew from there quite fast. I forget the details but I would imagine they are financed quite heavily by LP's
I wonder what the market size for this is. If it were a real product that wasn't super ugly in the bedroom, we'd use it. My BR is ~1500 ppm with two sleepers in a 10x12 room, and opening the window isn't an option.
I started "Prime Target" on Apple TV last night and I knew the premise of this story sounded familiar! The protagonist is obsessed over a prime number problem.
Unrelatedly, I'd be curious what this couple thinks about using AI tools in formal math problems. Did they use any AI tools in the past 2 years while working on this problem?
Related, it'd be nice if cameras had signatures to stamp proof of authenticity for the photos they produce.
While we're building the wishlist, it'd also be nice to have a history of transforms to sensor & artist-made digital pixels. This would have to be supported in DCC.
With these 2 things (proof of authenticity and git-like edit history), we could at least say with some confidence when news media _is not_ AI generated.
I feel like WebGPU actually holds some amount of promise as a cross-platform convenience. I'd agree that there's not a great reason to update your native code for this right now though.
If you're writing new gfx code though and are more familiar with web technology, there's definitely utility there. That's the bigger value prop: that people with web development skills can work on more pro (GPU-required) applications.
I remember predictions that cable TV practices (bundling/ads/high prices) would eventually get into the "easy/cheap/fast" streaming tech and undermine its newfound value.
Even if streaming prices were just as bad as cable TV, you have to admit that the lock-in effects are minimal and that's pretty great on its own: no hardware, no-contracts, no brick-and-mortar, no service appointments or technicians, etc.
With that in mind, I don't mind at all if companies are implementing these tactics. The barriers to compete are now way lower and the situation is much better for consumers (compared to ISP entertainment).
On the webGL/GPU side, my cynical speculation is that the Apple has slowly been amassing a nest of graphics talent for the last 5 years (Metal, Vision Pro, ARKit, list goes on), and at this point they can't resist the pressure from employees to not support some of this stuff which should be table stakes and is obviously good for the user experience.
On the PWA side, best guess is anti-competition scrutiny.
Sounds like you are looking for react-three-fiber, which looks just like this!
The examples, demos, and development experience are great, but since it's based on web tech hasn't made a big splash yet with the bigger 3D content businesses.
Really amazing! For those interested I highly recommend checking out Repper (https://repper.app/) for a fun playground without having to get too deep into the math.
Understand the spirit of this, but probably not true. I don't think Xiaomi, or any big tech company, needs to break even on their new model releases.