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I have no desire to do anything in VR, no matter how good it gets. I want to use my keyboard, to have a screen in front of me, to not have my person completely

by mjfl 4y ago

I have no desire to do anything in VR, no matter how good it gets. I want to use my keyboard, to have a screen in front of me, to not have my person completely captured inside of a virtual world. And I don't understand anyone who would want that.

lambdasquirrel 4y ago
It's kind of amusing that in the Bay Area, you have one huge company that's decided to stake a fair chunk of their future into this augmented / virtual reality, and then meanwhile, there's been all these old hippies and meditation teachers trying to get people to be more present in the (actual) real world.
xmprt 4y ago
There are a lot of online activities that people can do that don't require a keyboard and mouse. Playing games, video calls, watching videos/movies, etc. I don't think VR is particularly good at any of these things right now and I don't trust Meta to do this in a way that's cheaper and better than what we currently have, but I welcome a future where it's easy to do these activities without having to sit in traffic or worry about space constraints.
thorncorona 4y ago
And I would like to be able to put on a set of VR goggles and have a computer with an arbitrary number of windows, connected to a powerful computer. I don't understand why anyone would willingly let the monetary constraints of the physical world dictate how they interact with the world-at-large.
jjcon 4y ago
My family is geographically spread out - we all meet up in vr once every couple weeks and hit a few rounds of mini golf/bowling or just chat for a while. It’s the closest thing we have to being in person for most of the year. It doesn’t replace that but it is way better than awkward group video calls where everyone has to take turns speaking… instead we break off naturally in real environments - have times when only one person is speaking or have side conversations with just a few of us… it’s great!

by mjfl 4y ago

lambdasquirrel 4y ago

It's kind of amusing that in the Bay Area, you have one huge company that's decided to stake a fair chunk of their future into this augmented / virtual reality, and then meanwhile, there's been all these old hippies and meditation teachers trying to get people to be more present in the (actual) real world.

xmprt 4y ago

There are a lot of online activities that people can do that don't require a keyboard and mouse. Playing games, video calls, watching videos/movies, etc. I don't think VR is particularly good at any of these things right now and I don't trust Meta to do this in a way that's cheaper and better than what we currently have, but I welcome a future where it's easy to do these activities without having to sit in traffic or worry about space constraints.

thorncorona 4y ago

And I would like to be able to put on a set of VR goggles and have a computer with an arbitrary number of windows, connected to a powerful computer. I don't understand why anyone would willingly let the monetary constraints of the physical world dictate how they interact with the world-at-large.

jjcon 4y ago

My family is geographically spread out - we all meet up in vr once every couple weeks and hit a few rounds of mini golf/bowling or just chat for a while. It’s the closest thing we have to being in person for most of the year. It doesn’t replace that but it is way better than awkward group video calls where everyone has to take turns speaking… instead we break off naturally in real environments - have times when only one person is speaking or have side conversations with just a few of us… it’s great!