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Recently my son (8) was talking about how cool his uncles vr headset is and made the leap to what if that was in your brain! I was impressed he made that connec
by le-mark 5y ago
Recently my son (8) was talking about how cool his uncles vr headset is and made the leap to what if that was in your brain! I was impressed he made that connection. Then I reminded him how all the games on his iPad forced him to watch ads, wouldn’t that be a similar situation, only in his brain? His eyes got wide then he got a disgusted look on his face. He agreed that would suck.
I personally think there have always been distractions, maybe what’s different now is how some people get positive validation from their social media interactions, certainly an author would. A lot of people don’t though.
- jacquesm 5y agoThat kid will go places if he can reason like that at that age. Wow.
- IHLayman 5y agoI hate to be that person but I must point out that there are studies that show that children less than 10 years old using VR can have impaired head-trunk coordination. See this study for more info: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-96866-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-96866-8
- touisteur 5y agoThanks for the link, I think modern VR's paint is still fresh in everyone's mind (well... mine at least) and you brought a scientific article. I'm now wondering if the effects could be made beneficial for physical therapy.
- zippystrider 5y agoIf you install and adblocking app on the iPad, your son can see fewer ads (e.g. AdGuard, AdBlock) on these games. Alternatively, you could set up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi to block ads across the network.
- anigbrowl 5y agoThis isn't something you need to explain to people here. It's like responding to someone's comment about unpleasant weather by suggesting that they could wear different clothes.
- sneezles 5y agoThe reason that people here know about this stuff is that this place is full of people sharing helpful tidbits like this.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoFunny in Mario Kart 64 there's billboards so the roads look like roads, for realism. They are ads that say "Yoshi" and such. They are just not ads.