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They are not new technology the idea has been around since at least the 1980s. There is a reason we don’t use them and it’s because they are mechanically complicated and inefficient. Those in terms of power use and maintenance requirements.

However with the move to renewable energy maybe that efficiency limitation isn’t as much of a problem as it used to be. Especially if it means you can get away from toxic compounds.

Although I have never seen a commercial grade implementation of the technology. It’s always just been demos that don’t really achieve enough cooling to be anything other than a curiosity.

I don’t think shape change materials are all that efficient. The problem being is you still need some mechanism to compress the material again, which obviously uses energy. As you say their main advantage is that they don’t use traditional refrigerants. But the trade-off for that is that they are mechanically more complicated and probably for any given amount of cooling will require more electricity.

You can trade those off with renewable energy sources of course so it may still be worth it but technically they are worse efficiency than traditional vacuum pumps.

That’s thermodynamically impossible but ok.

When you cool something you take heat energy out of it you have to do something with that heat energy you can’t just delete it.

It’s a big country, lots of cultural differences. Unfortunately the education system is pretty bad here.

The only country name we’ve learnt to spell is Portugal. We’re pretty bad at all the others.

I feel like that would be a fairly normal response. Elevators are not typically found underwater so finding yourself in an underwater elevator is not going to be a particularly reassuring experience.

Apart from anything else a cube is not a particularly good shape for holding back water pressure

Yeah.

In their natural state humans are immortal, everyone knows that.

Even if you wanted to you can’t use AI the way these guys want, because it doesn’t work.

They obviously don’t pay him enough and that’s why he only has the one outfit.

I’m now older than both my parents were when I was born. The complaining about the lack of grandchildren has already started.

Is not in is it? Society won’t let me stay up and play Xbox until midnight anymore, I’m expected to go to work in the morning.

Do you even know what we’re talking about? Have you ever played any of those games, they are very much in the style of what meta where trying to do.

If you took Meta’s description of what the “Metaverse” is and then looked at chatVR it’s basically the same product.

Sure they do.

Don’t worry I’m not going to explain why that makes zero sense, you can keep wearing your fetching tin foil hat.

Those are two different things. Tracking the location via cell network just gives an approximate location, anywhere within the cell towers reception area. GPS data doesn’t get shared with anyone unless you choose to share it.

If companies want your GPS data then you have to share it with them.

ChatVR, RecRoom, Roblox, BattleBit, Project Loom (Which Google killed for no reason, but it wasn’t because of lack of success), and of course the OG, Second Life.

Hell you could even make the arguement for Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen if they ever finish it.

Some of those projects haven’t just been successful they’re so successful that they are starting to affect government policy.

Do you not have a temperature dial on your shower that lets you control this directly? If I feel like I need to burn my skin off I can turn the temperature all the way up and have 100% hot water.

It’s not like the direction it’s pointed and the direction it goes have any bearing on each other.

It’s so you can get a nice wet spot on the floor for that maximum bathroom aesthetic.

My man what are you on they sold out to Meta, they 100% knew what they were getting into, and have been well compensated for it.

Clearly the idea isn’t done because there are other versions of the metaverse that work very well and are making money.

I mean there’s always be vrchat, Which is basically what meta was trained to do but actually works.

Well they gave it their best shot. It was literally impossible for them to have produced a more compelling product. That would have required skill and talent