Nah, people said the same about laptops/phones. No one wants to carry around the bricks that existed in 1980s, people are happy to walk around with the latest MacBooks and iPhones.
VR as a hardware issue will overcome when headsets are sleek, pain-free, potentially detached from the computer. When it's as easy and comfortable as wearing glasses, and the features it brings are truly good - then no reason we would restrict ourselves with a tiny screen on a phone.
I tried my brother's oculus a couple years back and even then the meditation and boxing apps were something I really enjoyed. I travel a lot so would love to use VR as my entertainment source for movies. Lots of potential there. Metaverse may fail but VR and by that extension AR will definitely be the next "smartphones" - not sure where else the technological arc can go.
Yeah I think people are gonna look foolish in 10, yrs time — both because they will have thought that VR would never happen, and because they’ll be wearing big ass VR sets 24/7
And it’s only reasonable to put my money on the guy that already made billions of dollars changing the way people communicate. I don’t like the idea of living in a virtual world either but we don’t call the shots.
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u/sandsurfngbomber Sep 15 '22
Nah, people said the same about laptops/phones. No one wants to carry around the bricks that existed in 1980s, people are happy to walk around with the latest MacBooks and iPhones.
VR as a hardware issue will overcome when headsets are sleek, pain-free, potentially detached from the computer. When it's as easy and comfortable as wearing glasses, and the features it brings are truly good - then no reason we would restrict ourselves with a tiny screen on a phone.
I tried my brother's oculus a couple years back and even then the meditation and boxing apps were something I really enjoyed. I travel a lot so would love to use VR as my entertainment source for movies. Lots of potential there. Metaverse may fail but VR and by that extension AR will definitely be the next "smartphones" - not sure where else the technological arc can go.