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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I used to work in the grocery industry, and it’s kind of a shit show. You have a ton of products and all of the shelf organization and pricing is both manual and constantly fucked with by customers. I have countless tails of undercharging and overcharging.

    It’s never going to be perfect unless grocery stores digitize all the shelves. Stores have been exploring that for a decade, because it will selfishly help them to identify undercharging and inventory gaps. That said, the cost of all of those sensors, screens, and software solutions is pretty high. And grocery is an industry with very thin margins, so no one ever implements it at scale.




  • I used to do a lot of research in 3D imaging, and my take is that passive stereoscopic glasses were always destined to fail because they cause eye strain for too many people. And that eye strain is usually caused by the fact that the focal point is fixed, and a lot of eyeballs fight that when they see a three dimensional image. We’re used to being able to shift focus at will with real-world 3D space.

    This problem doesn’t impact everyone, and it’s not as bad with immersive experiences that keep items sharp in the foreground and background, or with films that don’t have interesting shit happening the background.

    That said, it’s a really old and well documented problem, and I don’t believe we have affordable varifocal viewing solutions on the market yet.