Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware

Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware by baby on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @08:09PM (#36979635)

I was approached by both Apple and Facebook back in the days, and decided to join Facebook instead of Apple. Why? I like to be able to post about the research I do, and I didn't like the secrecy approach of Apple. I'm guessing that this is a big factor for more than just me when choosing a company to join, especially when you do interesting things that you want to be able to share with the world.

I remember reading that Mark Rober was at Apple (nobody knew about that!) and I just feel like that must have sucked massively for someone who loves making youtube videos to work in a place like that.

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Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware by htormey on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @08:37PM (#36979845)

Yeah, on point observation. I worked at both companies. I left Apple to work at Facebook because I wanted to be able to participate in open source projects and talk about my work with my coworkers openly.

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Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware by azemetre on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:11PM (#36980514)

You're banned from working on your own open source projects at Apple? Had no idea, disappointing if true.

I could understand now talking about current work but if you have an open source project that's unrelated you can't publicly do anything?

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Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware by ChatGTP on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @08:21PM (#36979735)

Thanks so much for choosing to "bring the world closer together".

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Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware by baby on Thursday August 03, 2023 @02:16AM (#36982057)

Rock on! Connecting the world truly is a great mission imo

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