Comment by KaiserPro

its the same (or was) from the inside.

Someone had a poster up of Pam "this is the same thing" on the one side had the apollo space missions, and the other a picture of Zuck avatar next to the Eiffel tower. At the top it had the current RL spend (something like 45billion) they like me working in RL.

there were three teams for everything, sometimes in the same org.

Take hand interactions for example.

There was production hand detection, they were in the OS/product team. They spent a lot of time trying to make sure it was reliable and useable.

Then there was a near research team, who took old state of the art and salmi sliced it until it worked well enough on either current or next gen hardware.

Then there was the production research people, who were derived from control labs, who for some reason were not in RL-research but buried deep in "production"

Then in RL-Research, the biggest org was agios, who also did hand interaction, but hardly any of their work actually made it near to prod. They liked wrist mounted cameras with no privacy systems, because why would you need it on your wrist? its not like those head mounted twats who spent two years trying to master privacy.

You also have to demonstrate "impact" every 6 months. which is really great when your delivery pipeline is 1-7 years.