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Normal people don’t care. For example, Apple does just fine with their walled garden. The biggest issue with VR at the moment from my personal experience is the

Normal people don’t care. For example, Apple does just fine with their walled garden. The biggest issue with VR at the moment from my personal experience is the form factor. The giant box you put on your head really intimidates normal people. Even if you take care of the price and complexity of VR, people still don’t want to fully dive in beyond trying out a demo. I am still having trouble understanding why

JeremyNT 5y ago
"Normal people" may not care, but enough of us early adopters / tech savvy people do care to have some impact here. Facebook's reputation is so deep in the gutter that some people will never purchase anything from them (I count myself among those ranks). VR's widespread adoption has been "right around the corner" for at least a decade now, but it keeps failing to actually materialize. These things are niche gaming peripherals still, and proponents can ill afford to ignore potential users if they really want to reach ubiquity.
- chaostheory 5y ago
  I’m not saying that meta’s past rep isn’t important, but that’s still not as big as the form factor. In my little adhoc experiment, even if you took that away, it didn’t matter. Form factor still drives them away. It’s like being a VR user makes you Neal Stephenson’s “gargoyle” if I’m using the right term from snow crash
  - thfuran 5y ago
    And what's cooler than that, other than the pet Rat Thing in the freezer?
recursive 5y ago
> Apple does just fine with their walled garden There is a large group of Apple apologists right here on this very site!
- chaostheory 5y ago
  I’m not defending Apple. I’m just saying that non-techies tend to not care about that particular issue.
logifail 5y ago
> Even if you take care of the price and complexity of VR, people still don’t want to fully dive in beyond trying out a demo. I am still having trouble understanding why Maybe the people who aren't diving in to VR are "having trouble understanding why" they should? (Full disclosure: I honestly can't think of many things worse than strapping a box of electronics onto my head!)

JeremyNT 5y ago

"Normal people" may not care, but enough of us early adopters / tech savvy people do care to have some impact here. Facebook's reputation is so deep in the gutter that some people will never purchase anything from them (I count myself among those ranks). VR's widespread adoption has been "right around the corner" for at least a decade now, but it keeps failing to actually materialize. These things are niche gaming peripherals still, and proponents can ill afford to ignore potential users if they really want to reach ubiquity.

chaostheory 5y ago
I’m not saying that meta’s past rep isn’t important, but that’s still not as big as the form factor. In my little adhoc experiment, even if you took that away, it didn’t matter. Form factor still drives them away. It’s like being a VR user makes you Neal Stephenson’s “gargoyle” if I’m using the right term from snow crash
- thfuran 5y ago
  And what's cooler than that, other than the pet Rat Thing in the freezer?

recursive 5y ago

> Apple does just fine with their walled garden There is a large group of Apple apologists right here on this very site!

chaostheory 5y ago
I’m not defending Apple. I’m just saying that non-techies tend to not care about that particular issue.

logifail 5y ago

> Even if you take care of the price and complexity of VR, people still don’t want to fully dive in beyond trying out a demo. I am still having trouble understanding why Maybe the people who aren't diving in to VR are "having trouble understanding why" they should? (Full disclosure: I honestly can't think of many things worse than strapping a box of electronics onto my head!)