IIRC there were rumors that the headset would have an open PCIe slot for such things to be added. Presumably they were passed on as defaults for cost reasons.
> The Frame’s four outward-facing monochrome cameras and IR illuminator seem to provide excellent tracking, though in a brief demo, the black-and-white passthrough view wasn’t useful for much except getting a general idea of my surroundings. Rowe says sticking with monochrome passthrough was an intentional choice because color passthrough would have added to the Frame’s price. “The core focus of the device is the gaming,” Rowe says.
> For those who want color passthrough and other changes to the headset, Valve has made its headset modular, including a dedicated expansion port in the nose piece designed to support extra cameras. The expansion port offers 2.5Gbps of bandwidth via MIPI and one lane of PCIe data.
How much more clearly do they need to explain the resource constraints?
If they didn't announce it, you guys would be complaining about slowed progress.
If they didn't release it, you guys would be complaining about fake promises and marketing.
If they released it without limits, the complaints would be about slow responses and outages.
If they didn't add to susbcription plans, the complaints would be about phasing out subscriptions.
If they added to subscriptions with cost reflecting their resource availability, the complaints would be about how quickly it eats limits.
So they choose the middle ground of providing some initial access and assessing if they can satisfy demand, only to still be ignored and accused of trying to get users hooked?
We've already seen that they don't have enough compute, thus the deals with SpaceX for their GPUs. It's very reasonable that they just don't have the capacity to support the subscription userbase on this model.
Putting aside the fact that this is a hilarious standard to have on a Ycombinator run forum, lets say providing Opus level models was profitable. That has no bearing on if they'd have enough resources to provide Fable at all.
If you were traveling very close to light speed, time dilation would mean your experience of time is slowed down, such that if you can go infinitely close to the speed of light, you can travel anywhere as quickly as you have the energy for. For an observer on Earth you'd still take however many lightyears away the location is.
I kind of get it in the sense that every academic has to make themselves somewhat comfortable with self-promotion even if they don't like it. It's an important part of getting funding, but putting a blurb like that everywhere just hurts his credibility I think.
It's because this place is full of people that are the developer equivalent of someone that constantly tells everyone they drive a manual transmission vehicle and it makes them superior.
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