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the end users are going to be low-level work from home employees who have no choice in the matter. What is the incentive for businesses to buy and mandate

the end users are going to be low-level work from home employees who have no choice in the matter. What is the incentive for businesses to buy and mandate the use of proprietary VR headsets for their employees, low-level or otherwise? There would have to be killer apps for those headsets. Things that can't be done as well (or done at all) with traditional interfaces. I haven't heard many ideas being thrown around for things that would actually benefit from VR. There are certain niche applications that are easy to imagine. Maybe some CAD/CAM stuff, maybe remote surgery or some shit. But the vast majority of things people do would have no benefit. You're not going to crunch through help desk tickets faster in VR. I realize people probably said the same things about traditional computers 50 years ago, but there were also a lot of folks that were bullish on them. I just don't see it with VR.

threeseed 4y ago
> Things that can't be done as well (or done at all) with traditional interfaces I work from home and do daily standups, design reviews, architecture etc. All of those could be significantly better with VR.
- JohnBooty 4y ago
  architecture Specifically, what about it? It's easy for me to imagine architects spinning models around Minority Report style with their hands, going on virtual walkthroughs, etc with VR apps. It's less clear to me that these would actually improve the process. I realize that a 2D projection of a 3D object is always going to be a bit of a compromise, but are today's 2D interfaces and displays actually holding things back? I'm thinking of the wave of "Minority Report" style interfaces that were proposed after that movie came out. They seemed to "obviously" be the future. But after a while everybody realized that moving a few cm on a mouse/trackpad was actually orders of magnitude more efficient than waving your arms around like a maniac for ten hours a day.
moolcool 4y ago
Surveillance is the big one, I think. Speak to anyone who has worked at a call center. They track you like crazy, and keep every metric imaginable. Imagine how much worse it would be if they were enabled to literally track your eye movements.

threeseed 4y ago

> Things that can't be done as well (or done at all) with traditional interfaces I work from home and do daily standups, design reviews, architecture etc. All of those could be significantly better with VR.

JohnBooty 4y ago
architecture Specifically, what about it? It's easy for me to imagine architects spinning models around Minority Report style with their hands, going on virtual walkthroughs, etc with VR apps. It's less clear to me that these would actually improve the process. I realize that a 2D projection of a 3D object is always going to be a bit of a compromise, but are today's 2D interfaces and displays actually holding things back? I'm thinking of the wave of "Minority Report" style interfaces that were proposed after that movie came out. They seemed to "obviously" be the future. But after a while everybody realized that moving a few cm on a mouse/trackpad was actually orders of magnitude more efficient than waving your arms around like a maniac for ten hours a day.

moolcool 4y ago

Surveillance is the big one, I think. Speak to anyone who has worked at a call center. They track you like crazy, and keep every metric imaginable. Imagine how much worse it would be if they were enabled to literally track your eye movements.