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You nailed one of the biggest problems with current efforts out of Faceb...Meta. They are trying to recreate physical experiences in VR including the exclusiona
by giantrobot 4y ago
You nailed one of the biggest problems with current efforts out of Faceb...Meta. They are trying to recreate physical experiences in VR including the exclusionary limitations of physical environments.
A concert in VR has none of the natural limitations of a concert in the real world. Every member of the VR audience should be able to watch the concert from any location. Everywhere from on stage with the band to it just in a window in SIMD other virtual space so it can just play in the background while doing something else.
Even "stage" is a silly concept in VR, the concert could take place in a Star filled nebula or the halls of Moria. A concert in VR could look like a music video of a band playing in some crazy location in impossible costumes.
VR clients should also be able to control what they see. Watching that VR concert they should be able to enable or disable whatever elements that they want. They should be able to change a parameter and shift the concert venue to some other motif or disable the rest of the crowd to have a private show.
Instead of any of that Meta is just building nosebleeds thinking people are interested in having those physical limitations. If VR doesn't enable experiences that would be impossible in the real world then it's just a shitty lower fidelity version of the real world. Zuckerberg can go surf on his private beach in Hawai'i whenever he wants. Everyone in VR should have the same luxury of a private beach, dwarves forge, or a space station orbiting Jupiter. Meta is building VR where users are just as excluded from private beaches as they are from Zuckerberg's private beach. No one wants to be as poor in VR as they are in the real world.