Here’s a video explainer about the research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trQWfmH2OO4

That research was more about the haptics. This new research is more about projecting a volumetric hologram that can also be interacted with directly.

Man, Waymo was one of the more exciting things I was looking forward to, but I guess I should have waited for the other shoe to drop. Disappointing.

Are you talking about more dependencies from a developer’s point of view? I get that to a degree, but from a user’s point of view, isn’t AMP technically better, especially now that it’s open source?

Thanks for the non-AMP link. Though my understanding is that the past concerns about AMP have been resolved now that it has moved to an open-source project under the OpenJS Foundation. Is there still reason to avoid AMP?

I just lean towards it being a scam. I did some searching as well and couldn’t identify the organization behind “Voter Research Services”. If it was legitimate, they’d make that information readily available on some website. I think text message scammers consider it valuable information to find out if there is actually a person behind a phone number, so if they are scammers, even your first reply validated your number as a target for future unrelated scams.