Anyway, congrats to Crown Consulting Inc., please deliver stuff in a reasonable amount of time.
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amazon, AmazonGo, contractors, jessamyn, jwz, lies, mathowie, MattHaughey, retail, stores, techAmazon Go, "a new kind of corner store," that company's futuristic storefront where you installed an app on your phone, and could shop for things just by picking them up off of shelves and walking out the door with them, is being shut down. Some random internet person called "Matt Haughey" described his experience with the store, and how it wasn't nearly as magical as it seemed: as it turned out it was a kind of technological sleight-of-hand, instead of using RFIDs and weight-sensing shelves and other techno-devices, they just had a whole lot of people watching cameras. Another random person on Mastodon points out the whole-lot-of-people part was probably a bunch of subsistence contractors in other countries. A third random person notes, even doing that, the store concept couldn't be made to work. Meanwhile the important gigantic hovering electronic head of Jeff Bezos floats above us all, unmoving but watching, silently.
I've been playing this recently, after trying Pavlov VR (And being somewhat whelmed) this game felt revolutionary. As an Airsofter it felt miles more natural to play, and the weapons feel REALLY meaty. The shotguns are perfection, and the limited ammo makes things a lot more tactical. Plus, the bots are much better.