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One of the main challenges of these VR headsets is the time-to-start for any activity. It's just atrocious. If someone invites me to an impromptu Zoom call tod

One of the main challenges of these VR headsets is the time-to-start for any activity. It's just atrocious. If someone invites me to an impromptu Zoom call today, I can join it quickly and easily, because it's likely I was already on my computer. I see the link on my computer, usually in my calendar or in Slack. It takes me a second to click it. And boom, I'm in. Ezpz. Compare that to a VR meeting. If someone invites me, I'm likely on my computer. I have to leave my computer, go find my headset because it's bulky and inconvenient to keep on my desk, hope that it's charged which 50% of the time it's not, boot it up which takes 10 seconds, clear a safe space for me to stand in my apartment, put on the headset and draw a safety boundary, open the appropriate app and hope it doesn't need an update, and then try to figure out where the hell the invite link is that was chatted/Slacked/texted/calendar'd to me. The difference between jumping into something in 5 seconds vs 5 minutes seems trivial, but it's massive. It ends up being the difference between me doing this 5x a week vs 5x a year. What VR seems to need are more killer apps that are habitual, so I use the headset more often, so it's close by + it's charged + I keep an open space + occasionally I'm already using it when I get an invite to use it in some other way. There are all sorts of things that I regularly do on my computer, that I could potentially do better in VR if an app existed, but none does.

enra 4y ago
This is my main problem with Quest 2 as well. I’d like to use it more, but each time it’s such a chore to set up, navigate, open the app, wait it to load etc. I wish the Quest could just preload with an app, and you wouldn’t need to redraw the boundary if you use it in the same room. Another issue is that quest doesn’t work in dark/dimly lit room, you need like bright lights shining to each corner and the floor if you like to use it in the night.
bergenty 4y ago
That doesn’t sound right. If you use VR for all your meetings, it would be sitting on your desk (it doesn’t take much more space than over the ear headphones), would be wired and takes about 2 seconds to slip on.
- csallen 4y ago
  It's hard to get to a point where VR is ubiquitous enough to use it for all of your meetings, because you must first get to a point where VR is useful for a few of your meetings before it starts to spread and become popular. And that isn't happening for me at least, because it's too much work to start.
- hrbf 4y ago
  If you’re sitting anyway, what’s even the point of a VR meeting?
MikusR 4y ago
I wonder why does the Quest Pro have a charging stand with pogo pins?

enra 4y ago

This is my main problem with Quest 2 as well. I’d like to use it more, but each time it’s such a chore to set up, navigate, open the app, wait it to load etc. I wish the Quest could just preload with an app, and you wouldn’t need to redraw the boundary if you use it in the same room. Another issue is that quest doesn’t work in dark/dimly lit room, you need like bright lights shining to each corner and the floor if you like to use it in the night.

bergenty 4y ago

That doesn’t sound right. If you use VR for all your meetings, it would be sitting on your desk (it doesn’t take much more space than over the ear headphones), would be wired and takes about 2 seconds to slip on.

csallen 4y ago
It's hard to get to a point where VR is ubiquitous enough to use it for all of your meetings, because you must first get to a point where VR is useful for a few of your meetings before it starts to spread and become popular. And that isn't happening for me at least, because it's too much work to start.
hrbf 4y ago
If you’re sitting anyway, what’s even the point of a VR meeting?

MikusR 4y ago

I wonder why does the Quest Pro have a charging stand with pogo pins?