Chet Faliszek Quotes

Chet Faliszek is an American videogame writer.

Faliszek gained recognition as the co-creator of the satirical Old Man Murray website along with Erik Wolpaw around 1997, and which ran until 2002.Faliszek's and Wolpaw's writings led to them being hired by the Valve Corporation circa 2005. Along with Wolpaw and Marc Laidlaw, Faliszek helped to create the storylines for the Half-Life and Portal series, along with having personally written the story for Left 4 Dead. He was also involved with Valve's work in virtual reality through the HTC Vive. In May 2017, Faliszek announced that after twelve years with Valve, he had left the company earlier in the year to work on unannounced projects.By September 2017, Faliszek joined London-based Bossa Studios, and will lead Bossa's new Seattle-based studio. He is currently working on an unannounced cooperative game that is "trying to do something new in the narrative space using [artificial intelligence]". In May 2018, Faliszek announced he had also joined the board of advisers for Vertigo Games, and will help support a current virtual reality title they are currently developing.

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“FB isn’t a social media company, it is a data tracking company.
Why care that they track this data? Think the future, not just today.”

Chet Faliszek

https://twitter.com/chetfaliszek/status/980861065989783552 (2 April 2018).
Context: I recently posted about Oculus/Facebook and their data collection. Let me go more in depth and this isn’t just about today this is about the future of XR. At the heart of the matter are these points where their and actions differ from other XR companies.
FB tracks and stores all device movement and location. They also have wording to allow them to track all communication and interaction with their services. They have been caught capturing call and sms data on android phones through their FB app using similar language.
FB doesn’t have a Hardware guy in charge of Oculus Hardware – instead, they have Boz – an ad guy, a data guy who recently made thoughts on your value as a FB user very clear. And if you are still confused, FB isn’t a social media company, it is a data tracking company.
Why care that they track this data? Think the future, not just today. When there are XR apps and devices that you use regularly outside your home. Where natural feature tracking means cameras and microphones strapped to your head recording and saving everything.
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So it isn’t just Facebook and what they will do with this data, but this data’s existence is a threat to our privacy and freedom.

Thinking , Future