Human experience is a part of conservation. Without a house, these trees would get clear cut once they are big enough to be worth anything. With a house, the homeowner will want to keep them.
When I did this for a home remodel, the big difference was that it was AR and not just VR. Being able to experience where the virtual changes line up with the real world makes a huge difference.
Definitely a useful application for this but the article isn't doing AR at all, so it is just VR. The most common VR headset according to Steam can also do the same thing (but probably not as well).
Truly, people have been saying this since 2017 and the Apple Neural Engine has proven them wrong time immemorial.
Apple's own desktops, with the fastest Apple Silicon GPUs and TDPs 20x higher than an iPhone still can't compete for real-world datacenter use even with RDNA clustering. Apple's GPGPU architecture is behind AMD at this point, there's a reason why Apple Intelligence is critically reliant on Nvidia and Google to provide inference backends.
You can't even get coins counted for free at retail banks anymore. Cash handling is too expensive even for the place that ostensibly provides cash handling services to the general public.
It's the exact same problem solved by any library whatsoever
If you (or your agent) have to write less code, there's less room to write bugs. There will be less code to understand when it needs to be modified too.
Their virtual pet game is creepily connected to their social media platform and has poor performance on low end phones, like the kind kids typically have. Their company has a huge problem at the leadership level if they are making those kinds of enormous mistakes. Maybe selling will fix it.
I was under the impression that this is the exact kind of thing that violates the GDPR. That is.. processing an identifier (IP address) to do something more (track user actions across multiple requests) than what is required (route traffic to the server).
My recent experience with wanting analytics for an enterprise application was that for my limited needs, it was easier to roll my own than to deal with evaluating all the options and integrating with another service. There are already a ton of privacy focused alternatives to google analytics. So many such that finding one that serves a niche is practically ungoogleable.