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I hope not, too, and I really don't understand the desire to wear a HMD all day. Are these folks' lives so empty that this is better than just, like...being pre

I hope not, too, and I really don't understand the desire to wear a HMD all day. Are these folks' lives so empty that this is better than just, like...being present? I can lean a little to the right and see my dog from where I sit to work and there are windows with good natural light all over the place. Why would I want to shut everything out? Work isn't life.

palijer 5y ago
What is to say you can't have both? Cameras and overlaying the display with the real world is already being done. Simply throwing up a work env as a HUD around the real world isn't at all beyond the reach of cures t tech. So you can see your dog and natural light, and have everything overplayed by an HMD as AR around you.
Flankk 5y ago
You can scan your pets in Meta. They can then travel the Metaverse with you. Once the AI training completes, your pet's personality will be synced to the cloud. Your dog will now be with you forever so you can happily put the meatspace version to sleep.
- ggm 5y ago
  > Your dog will now be with you forever so you can happily put the meatspace version to sleep. Remember this phrase.
least 5y ago
> I hope not, too, and I really don't understand the desire to wear a HMD all day. Not everyone is privileged enough to live in an environment perfectly suitable for work or living their life. A virtual world creates space that doesn't actually exist but is still quite useful for the person working inside of it. I don't own a movie theater but I could potentially enjoy the experience of one with VR. It would also enable me to arbitrarily define my workspace in such a way that is not even physically possible in the real world. For example, I have large studio monitors that physically require there to not be obstructions in front of them, which creates constraints on the size and placement of my display(s). In a virtual world that sort of limitation doesn't exist. I could still sit at my same desk with the same studio monitors but with a limitless space for the displays that could be placed exactly where they're most useful, without concerns for obstructing the studio monitors. > Are these folks' lives so empty that this is better than just, like...being present? Why would you infer that people's lives are 'so empty' just because they find using VR appealing? Even if someone wanted to spend 100% of their time in the 'virtual world,' what exactly about that makes their life empty?
- Macha 5y ago
  > Not everyone is privileged enough to live in an environment perfectly suitable for work or living their life. Two issues with that: 1. A good VR setup requires more space than a good home office. I've got a perfectly workable home office that is also my VR space, but is at the bare minimum of what SteamVR will allow room scale usage in, and does lead to bumping into things. 2. Longer term VR use is actively tiring. I mean obviously beat saber and active use is, but even two hours flight simming which is sitting in a chair does this in a way it isn't using my monitor. Maybe lighter or dimmer future headsets will help with this, but that's a big assumption.
msie 5y ago
Count yourself lucky that you have such a blessed life that you don’t want to escape from.
- eropple 5y ago
  Sure, I'm lucky. I'm also of the opinion that we can work to give that to everybody rather than attempting to apply VR as opiate.
  - mwcampbell 5y ago
    For example, we don't want the physical world depicted in Ready Player One (the book).

palijer 5y ago

What is to say you can't have both? Cameras and overlaying the display with the real world is already being done. Simply throwing up a work env as a HUD around the real world isn't at all beyond the reach of cures t tech. So you can see your dog and natural light, and have everything overplayed by an HMD as AR around you.

Flankk 5y ago

You can scan your pets in Meta. They can then travel the Metaverse with you. Once the AI training completes, your pet's personality will be synced to the cloud. Your dog will now be with you forever so you can happily put the meatspace version to sleep.

ggm 5y ago
> Your dog will now be with you forever so you can happily put the meatspace version to sleep. Remember this phrase.

least 5y ago

> I hope not, too, and I really don't understand the desire to wear a HMD all day. Not everyone is privileged enough to live in an environment perfectly suitable for work or living their life. A virtual world creates space that doesn't actually exist but is still quite useful for the person working inside of it. I don't own a movie theater but I could potentially enjoy the experience of one with VR. It would also enable me to arbitrarily define my workspace in such a way that is not even physically possible in the real world. For example, I have large studio monitors that physically require there to not be obstructions in front of them, which creates constraints on the size and placement of my display(s). In a virtual world that sort of limitation doesn't exist. I could still sit at my same desk with the same studio monitors but with a limitless space for the displays that could be placed exactly where they're most useful, without concerns for obstructing the studio monitors. > Are these folks' lives so empty that this is better than just, like...being present? Why would you infer that people's lives are 'so empty' just because they find using VR appealing? Even if someone wanted to spend 100% of their time in the 'virtual world,' what exactly about that makes their life empty?

Macha 5y ago
> Not everyone is privileged enough to live in an environment perfectly suitable for work or living their life. Two issues with that: 1. A good VR setup requires more space than a good home office. I've got a perfectly workable home office that is also my VR space, but is at the bare minimum of what SteamVR will allow room scale usage in, and does lead to bumping into things. 2. Longer term VR use is actively tiring. I mean obviously beat saber and active use is, but even two hours flight simming which is sitting in a chair does this in a way it isn't using my monitor. Maybe lighter or dimmer future headsets will help with this, but that's a big assumption.

msie 5y ago

Count yourself lucky that you have such a blessed life that you don’t want to escape from.

eropple 5y ago
Sure, I'm lucky. I'm also of the opinion that we can work to give that to everybody rather than attempting to apply VR as opiate.
- mwcampbell 5y ago
  For example, we don't want the physical world depicted in Ready Player One (the book).