Table Talk from the desk of Rabbi Alexander Seinfeld
February 9-10, 2024 • 1 Adar 1 5784 • Mishpatim (Ex 21-24).
The purpose of this blog is for an augmented Shabbat table ... please forward/print/share.
Do you know how many days until Purim and Pesach?
Happy birthday shout-out to Marc A....!
Do you know how many days until Purim and Pesach?
Happy birthday shout-out to Marc A....!
...that is the question....
Did you ever read a headline and think, "Wait a sec, is today April 1"?
Here are a few bona fide recent headlines that you may have missed:
Tesla owners told not to wear Apple virtual reality headsets while driving
Man who spent years building Eiffel Tower with 700K matchsticks may be denied world record for using wrong matches
3 million smart toothbrushes were not used in a DDoS attack after all, but it could happen
GOP congressman admits to doing pull-ups at top of Capitol Dome and insists ‘there was nothing unsafe’ about it
Britain has seen an alarming rise in poetry sales
Northern Ontario pizza shop’s 'unforeseen circumcisions' typo goes viral
It's sometimes good for the soul to read something a bit less serious... and today is Rosh Chodesh Adar so tis the season....
Regarding the first headline above ... a friend was telling me this week about his experience with these new Apple so-called "AR" goggles.
For the uninitiated, that stands for "augmented reality". The idea is to have a lightweight device over your eyes that feels comfortable and shows a realistic image of your surroundings with your inbox or youtube channel or whatever you want floating in the air. So you could theoretically walk around the room while wearing it and interact with internet stuff by simply turning your head or flicking your finger.
This is leading to a question for your table. But to make the question "sticky," let's say for the sake of discussion that the goggles work as advertised - that the image inside really looks exactly like reality, with the augmentation.
(By the way, because it's just an image, it's possible to create an artificial scene instead - instead of the actual basement room you're sitting in, you could have the goggles make it appear that you are sitting in a sunny garden, or on the beach, or wherever.)
So here's the question I think I'd like to ask everyone at the table – Is this truly augmented reality, or is it actually virtual reality? How do you relate to it?
Did you ever read a headline and think, "Wait a sec, is today April 1"?
Here are a few bona fide recent headlines that you may have missed:
Tesla owners told not to wear Apple virtual reality headsets while driving
Man who spent years building Eiffel Tower with 700K matchsticks may be denied world record for using wrong matches
3 million smart toothbrushes were not used in a DDoS attack after all, but it could happen
GOP congressman admits to doing pull-ups at top of Capitol Dome and insists ‘there was nothing unsafe’ about it
Britain has seen an alarming rise in poetry sales
Northern Ontario pizza shop’s 'unforeseen circumcisions' typo goes viral
It's sometimes good for the soul to read something a bit less serious... and today is Rosh Chodesh Adar so tis the season....
Regarding the first headline above ... a friend was telling me this week about his experience with these new Apple so-called "AR" goggles.
For the uninitiated, that stands for "augmented reality". The idea is to have a lightweight device over your eyes that feels comfortable and shows a realistic image of your surroundings with your inbox or youtube channel or whatever you want floating in the air. So you could theoretically walk around the room while wearing it and interact with internet stuff by simply turning your head or flicking your finger.
This is leading to a question for your table. But to make the question "sticky," let's say for the sake of discussion that the goggles work as advertised - that the image inside really looks exactly like reality, with the augmentation.
(By the way, because it's just an image, it's possible to create an artificial scene instead - instead of the actual basement room you're sitting in, you could have the goggles make it appear that you are sitting in a sunny garden, or on the beach, or wherever.)
So here's the question I think I'd like to ask everyone at the table – Is this truly augmented reality, or is it actually virtual reality? How do you relate to it?
Shabbat Shalom and Happy Adar (1),
Alexander Seinfeld
PS - Our new amazing iPhone app has had a few bug fixes, so if you haven't tried it yet, there's no time like the present! (just make sure to allow Notifications).
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