> If someone has never seen television before [...] you don't need to draw up a sales pitch to convince them that it can enrich their life Indeed, because they

> If someone has never seen television before [...] you don't need to draw up a sales pitch to convince them that it can enrich their life Indeed, because they can see a television. They enjoy it immediately. They don't have to put on a headset, they don't have to engage in sensory deprivation, they don't need to think about software, they don't need to think about use cases. The point I'm making is that TV was a bogus analogy. > Your post makes it seem like you would've poo-pooed computers and video games because keyboards and gaming controllers are too complicated Not at all. Game controllers don't require me to take myself out of my environment to enjoy them. > Watch a tech-illiterate person strap on VR for the first time. The first thing they do is look down at their hands and wave them around. They then say "wow, this is cool, I wish I had one". They don't say "I want to buy one of these and put it in my living room". To think they do is, again, that disconnect between Silicon Valley and ordinary people in full force; that because we think it might be cool, somehow we know everybody wants it, and we'll happily ignore all the reasons why people don't or, more condescendingly, dismiss them and anybody who mentions them. Such hubris should be the lesson of Google Glass and Snap.