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> Disconnection from the world is solved by high resolution video passthrough. This one will go into my treasure trove of HN quotes.

• fomine3 4y ago
  To be fair, hearing aid is a similar device now used
  • adastra22 4y ago
    It completely missed the point though, by a mile.
    • Ajedi32 4y ago
      I took the point as being that you can't see your physical surroundings, so you don't know what's going on outside the headset. Passthrough solves that, at least when it's turned on (which for office work it almost always would be). If we're talking about disconnection from the world in a more abstract sense then I agree passthrough doesn't solve that. But that's not really a problem unique to VR either.
      • adastra22 4y ago
        Me being able to see my wife when she comes in the room, or my kids playing in the room next door is only half the issue. They need to be able to see, and emotionally connect with my face without me having pull off all my gear every time something needs to be said or confirmed. They need to feel like I'm not off in my own separate world, and I don't want to feel that either. As a parent and a work-at-home spouse, and even just as a company founder I'm always multitasking at every given moment. And that means juggling things in the real world as well as the virtual.