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It will work, it just won't catch on because people don't want to wear shit on their face all day and look like a moron talking to beings 90% of the population
by zxcvcxz 10y ago
It will work, it just won't catch on because people don't want to wear shit on their face all day and look like a moron talking to beings 90% of the population can't see. It's just a toy for gamers and developers right now. No telling when the general population will start using VR regularly but probably not until the devices start to look like a regular pair of glasses.
- blisterpeanuts 10y agoI'm guessing that the future will be AR. Heads up displays that annotate reality, e.g. turn static printed books and magazines into hyperlinked text you can tap and expand like a Kindle. When the glasses or projection devices become sophisticated enough, the possibilities will be endless.
- mtgx 10y agoWhy does one have to exist but not the other? VR and AR solve pretty different things.
- Razengan 10y ago> people don't want to _______ all day and look like a moron talking to beings 90% of the population can't see. You mean, like radio and telephone and television and computers and smartphones?
- putzdown 10y agoOh no. Oh no no no. I think it's pretty clear that VR headsets make you look like a moron at a whole new level. Take away a person's eyes—hide their eyes so that they seem to have none—and you take away a lot. Put them in touch with a private world and you make them even more alien. Radio, telephone, even television can't compete with that level of moron-looking.
- Razengan 10y agoI assure you people said those exact same things when radio, telephone, television and smartphones came on the scene. Since that last one is pretty recent, I'm sure you would remember all the comics and satire around people being absorbed in their iPhones and whatnot.
- lsc 10y ago> it just won't catch on because people don't want to wear shit on their face all day and look like a moron Social factors are a big thing, and while it pains me to say it (and your comment was worded in an unnecessarily offensive way) I do think that you might be at least partially right. You are certainly right that social factors have a huge effect on the uptake of new technologies, but it's often hard to predict how those social factors will change and shape the uptake of new technology. My example is text messages. Doesn't that seem like something only a total dork would like? I was a fairly early adopter of text messaging myself, and I certainly fit the 'poorly socialized nerd' stereotype, and my perception at the time was that text messaging was for people who were too poorly socialized or nervous to talk via voice. But that's not how text messages came to dominate. text messaging came to dominate, as far as I can tell, because it's seen as somehow rude to actually talk with someone who isn't physically in the room with you when other people are in the room with you. (It doesn't seem like it ought to be rude to me, but my social responses are not normal. I can certainly observe that the vast majority of people find that sort of thing rude, and I act accordingly.) my point here is just that you are right to say that social perceptions matter in the uptake of these technologies, but probably premature in confidently stating that you understand what direction those social perceptions will push.