CyberHub Syndicate, synthetic milk, and utopia
my company launches, the future of the climate, and a bunch of other futurist stuff
🚀 1 company launch 👆
My new company is taking off a little quicker than I would have presumed. It’s exciting.
I’ll give you the short version today and maybe draft out our vision in an article later, kinda like the whitepaper style of web3 projects.
Business Overview
CyberHub Syndicate is a VR game developer collective. There are 3 parts to the business:
The software: we make creating VR games and experiences easier with a foundational piece of software that gives developers a headstart. It’s by developers, for developers, with full access to the source code, and free licensing for enthusiast and pre-revenue projects
The community: we’ve taken over and will get Spatial Ape the VR developer tradeshow/meetup group that meets in VR back up and running again
The studio: we’re an agency, studio, and hacker collective of devs and artists working on games and client projects
The crazy part is that we already have a large customer we’re making a game for, kind of awesome to have a little revenue this early in the life of the company.
This fall we’ll be relaunching Spatial Ape, the meetup group, as well as our software.
💚 3 Future of climate things
🌊 Florida man swims to work
In ‘so obvious that it shouldn’t be news’ kind of news, scientists have warned southern Florida coastal cities that they will be affected by rising sea levels due to global warming.
Anyone who’s been to Florida knows that if the ocean rises they are poorly positioned.
⚛ Coal to nuclear
I’m a big fan of nuclear energy, it gets an unfair bad rap. It produces a ton of energy with no carbon released into the atmosphere. If we’re serious about climate change then nuclear is a fantastic short to mid-term option.
In a recent report, the Department of Energy has identified numerous retiring and active coal plants in the US that are great sites to convert to nuclear. This would provide tons of carbon-free energy and jobs. AND nuclear is an easy sell to red states. This is a win win win. Save the planet, create jobs, and get conservatives on board with it.
🥛 yeast milk?
Plant milks are all the rage, but they aren’t really as healthy as they’re touted to be. They contain sugar and cheap vegetable oils. If your stomach tolerates it, it’s healthier to just drink milk…. but it’s not great for the environment. Cows take up a lot of space, drink a lot of water, fart out a ton of gas, etc etc.
If, this milk startup can actually use yeast to create the milk proteins and the resulting product is tasty, healthy, has great mouthfeel, and is vegan. That’s another win-win right there. I like cow’s milk, but if it were indistinguishable and equally healthy, I’d switch to yeast-made milk.
🤪 3 crazy things
🥽 Using AI to see the context
Some people spend way too much time figuring out their “candid” Instagram photos, this dude used open cameras and AI to show us.
It’s creepy, funny, and a glimpse of a future surveilance state I’m uncomfortable with.
🥽 Open source VR headset
Somnium Space, VRgineers, and Prusa Research announced recently they’re working together to create an open-source VR headset.
I don’t love Somnium space, because I don’t love anyone selling their own Metaverse that includes artificial scarcity. BUT, an open-source VR headset is a very good thing!
The future is open, not closed — at least that’s what we should build towards despite what some major tech companies want.
😏 Is it stealing if you copy it?
First, this is A+ content.
Second, this is a great little tech demo.
Third, is it stealing if the product gets put back on the shelf?
💥 3 quick hits
One of my favorite substack authors, Elle, posted the prologue of her new utopian novel she intends to serialize here on Substack.
I loved it and am looking forward to reading along, check it out.
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