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I can't help but feel the world jumped into "the future is here" mode way too early. AI, AR, VR -- these have all promised sci-fi-esque experiences that simply

I can't help but feel the world jumped into "the future is here" mode way too early. AI, AR, VR -- these have all promised sci-fi-esque experiences that simply can't be delivered with current technology. I suspect it's to do with the fact that innovation is slowing down across the globe, yet the public expects it to continue at the same pace it's been running for the past 50 years. The market wants the next computer, the next internet, the next iPhone. What happens when it doesn't show up?

ishi 8y ago
What makes you say that innovation is slowing down across the globe?
bsenftner 8y ago
Journalism stopped paying journalist, so the good ones left, the famous ones got paid more, and the industry changed from new information delivery to sitting on top of fabricated outrage media that tells you how to think. We have no "journalism" in the united states, only a propaganda arm delivering fractured propaganda originating from their largest advertiser block.
tokyodude 8y ago
I've had amazing "sci-fi" experiences in VR. Lone Echo on Oculus, Farpoint on PSVR, and others. So blown away that certain geners of non-VR games are not completely non-compelling to me. Those 2 games, while not the best games ever, gave me the feeling of "being there". The difference between playing games on a monitor and games in VR, the good ones, is like the difference between a picture of the grand canyon and being and the grand canyon. The picture does no justice. Sure it might be pretty but it gives no sense of the scale and presence. You don't feel that there's a mile deep canyon that's 20 miles to the other side. You just see a pretty picture. In VR though you do get that sense of scale. That volcano in the distance in Farpoint actually feels 3 miles high with a 20 mile high plum of ash. Hiding behind a piece of rock actually feels like hiding and not "pressing the hide button".

ishi 8y ago

What makes you say that innovation is slowing down across the globe?

bsenftner 8y ago

Journalism stopped paying journalist, so the good ones left, the famous ones got paid more, and the industry changed from new information delivery to sitting on top of fabricated outrage media that tells you how to think. We have no "journalism" in the united states, only a propaganda arm delivering fractured propaganda originating from their largest advertiser block.

tokyodude 8y ago

I've had amazing "sci-fi" experiences in VR. Lone Echo on Oculus, Farpoint on PSVR, and others. So blown away that certain geners of non-VR games are not completely non-compelling to me. Those 2 games, while not the best games ever, gave me the feeling of "being there". The difference between playing games on a monitor and games in VR, the good ones, is like the difference between a picture of the grand canyon and being and the grand canyon. The picture does no justice. Sure it might be pretty but it gives no sense of the scale and presence. You don't feel that there's a mile deep canyon that's 20 miles to the other side. You just see a pretty picture. In VR though you do get that sense of scale. That volcano in the distance in Farpoint actually feels 3 miles high with a 20 mile high plum of ash. Hiding behind a piece of rock actually feels like hiding and not "pressing the hide button".