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June 19, 2023: Ridiculing Apple's Vision Pro headset with Paris Marx

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Today: Ridiculing Apple's Vision Pro headset with Paris Marx

• Tech Won’t Save Us, Paris’s podcast

• Disconnect, Paris’s newsletter

• Apple’s Vision Pro headset deserves to be ridiculed (June 5, 2023), by Paris in Disconnect

• Techtonic on July 25, 2022 – Paris’s first appearance on Techtonic, talking about his book Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation

• Don’t Wear the Goggles (June 9, 2023), by Ross Douthat in the NYT, in which he says that “public derision” is “good” and “necessary” and that “our health as a society and species depends on sustaining it.”

• Meta to Lower Age for Users of Virtual Reality Headset to 10 From 13 (NYT, June 16, 2023): “The age change for the Quest headset comes as building a virtual reality-based version of the metaverse has become crucial to Meta’s future. . . . The high costs of trying to turn the metaverse into a mainstream business have spooked Wall Street, causing Meta’s stock to plunge last year. . . . Lowering the minimum age requirements for the company’s Quest headset could help familiarize younger audiences with the metaverse . . . so that they would be more likely to continue using the technology as they grow up.”

• Rejecting the Apple Vision Pro (June 9, 2023), by Mark Hurst

• Glass Half Empty (The Daily Show feat. Jason Jones, June 16, 2014)