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Who knows what will happen, but AR/VR/MR seems like a sensible big bet to me. People don't get it because the headsets are big and uncomfortable and the graphi
by ilaksh 4y ago
Who knows what will happen, but AR/VR/MR seems like a sensible big bet to me.
People don't get it because the headsets are big and uncomfortable and the graphics aren't very impressive or realistic. But they are getting better.
I think that is someone comes along in the next few years with something like the new Spectacles but with a 90 degree field of view and less than $500, it could become extremely popular.
Or suppose next year an Apple headset has an application with very realistic graphics for mixed reality or VR "teleporting" where realistic faces and bodies appear in your house. Or you go to some club or something and it looks completely realistic.
To me this stuff will take off when the graphics and software get a bit better, better field of view, cheaper. But it's a matter degrees at this point.
What could very well happen is that AR/MR completely blows up in the next three years, but with some other company making a slightly better and cheaper glasses or whatever and a totally open metaverse platform. That will prove that he was going in the right direction, but no one will admit they misjudged the goal.
- rapjr9 4y agoI've been a proponent of VR for 30 years and have noticed that there is strong resistance to it, not because of clunky headsets or field of view or graphics quality. The objection seems to derive more from concerns of a Matrix style world, where one company controls a form of reality where people spend significant time. And the control really is complete, the worst dictatorship is nothing compared to the control the owner of a virtual reality has. I have no proof, but my suspicion is that this is why people in power object to the very idea of virtual reality, it usurps their power. You could say facebook or twitter or Youtube are already like this, yet there is something different about an immersive environment, perhaps a suspension of disbelief because we generally accept what our senses tell us as real. VR is closer to a direct channel into peoples brains than text or video is. It is a synthetic reality. If a bat flies towards you in a video you do not duck, in a VR environment you may very well duck.