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This is a VR headset. It’s hardly a basic necessity
by akerl_ 5y ago
This is a VR headset. It’s hardly a basic necessity
- bloqs 5y agoThis was said about phones 10 years ago, and electricity 100 years before that.
- akerl_ 5y agoI was being flippant in my comment above, but just to be clear: I think regulating business models for cell phones is just as bad an idea. Electrical service has limitations around things like termination of service / fair pricing / safety, but we don’t mandate how they design their software and servers.
- Apocryphon 5y agoWhat about their comment on the lack of non-smart TVs?
- akerl_ 5y agoThere are plenty of non-smart TVs. They just cost more than smart TVs. You can find them at any number of suppliers, and they’re still bought in large numbers by businesses.
- HWR_14 5y ago> I think regulating business models for cell phones is just as bad an idea. I mean, we can mandate minimum services. Something that has a webbrowser, email client, texts and calls. If you want to say that apps don't fit into that, I suppose that works.
- unsui 5y agoyet. That's the whole point of getting in early (to the mass-consumer-market), to make it the standard. It's not a necessity yet, but neither were smartphones (now just called "phones"). FB is banking heavily that VR will become a necessity, to one extent or another. I sincerely hope FB fails, but my suspicion is that it would fail not because FB failed, but rather because VR itself failed (e.g. Google Glass for consumers). Still to be seen.