William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026With 3D movies back in fashion, electronics manufacturers wasted no time taking the obvious next step: 3D TV. One CES these were everywhere, and the next one they weren't. 7/ 121
William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026But the big new future that came out of 3D movies was virtual reality, round 2. Starting in 2010 or so there were many stabs at this, all funded by rafts of ZIRP investor money. 8/ 130
William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026I'd put the peak of this era in 2021, when Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta, because a VR universe, the metaverse, was the future of both play and work. 9/ 121