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tuvok86 t1_iy31i3o wrote

while it's true that the "tech is not there yet", the tech would be "there" much more if early products would have shown it as a promising, ubiquitous technology. it has just been missing a killer app, like when before iphone smartphones where just a curiosity for nerds

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space_spider t1_iy3kumf wrote

This is the real answer, OP. Almost everyone I know who has a VR/AR headset doesn’t use it any more. It was novel, but anecdotally I can only use one for an hour before my head hurts. Video games aren’t that fun in it, and industry applications are unreliable because software is usually buggy and over budget.

I got to play with the magic leap, hololens, oculus quest 2, and other headsets when they came out, and the progress is cool, but they’re just not worth the investment to anyone except as a curiosity for those with excess disposable income.

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Experience_Far t1_iy3osz7 wrote

Watching stuff nosia isn't a big problem but playing games is an entirely different matter.

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UncertainAboutIt t1_iy6wwaf wrote

Why people still do not use them as monitors replacements? Well, IMO there are heavy.

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botfiddler t1_iy3lndy wrote

The kill apps are games and porn, especially with AI companions and NPCs. Obviously. Meta: Let's make it into a place for corporate meetings, mobile games, and no porn allowed (same for everything else that might give us bad PR by mass media bullies).

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Bakoro t1_iy4f77f wrote

The iphone had marketing and inserted itself as a piece of conspicuous consumption, a showy status item. The first iphone was a piece of shit.

The entire first few generations of smart phones were terrible, slow, awful products across the board. The overwhelming usefulness of smartphones are what kept people using them, and pushed the whole industry forward to the point they got good.

VR doesn't have obvious, overwhelming usefulness for the average person, and you generally can't go to Starbucks and loudly show off your new VR headset, or casually take it out of your pocket/bag and be like "Oh, this? Yeah I got the newest consumerist item, it's sooo good, no big deal (they think I'm cool now right?)."

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nomoreprocrastin8ing t1_iy6ipya wrote

360 degree FoV for all 1000 of active tabs for analysing data, writing reports, and doing a literature review that would make a computer cluster come to a screeching fiery halt each time you press “new tab” on chrome?

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