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This email makes such a bold assumption - that VR will play out like a repeat of smartphones. Or that some "next big platform" will. Is that guaranteed? Cars, h
by QuadrupleA 4y ago
This email makes such a bold assumption - that VR will play out like a repeat of smartphones. Or that some "next big platform" will. Is that guaranteed? Cars, houses, aircraft, boats, bicycles - all have mostly kept their basic form factors for decades, once developed and optimized.
I'm dubious that VR will ever be much more than a game platform. Certainly not a substitute for physical life.
Things you can't do in VR:
- have a normal tactile response to objects
- feel the acceleration of a vehicle
- feel the warmth of a fire
- eat a good meal
- eat a good meal with friends
- buy a coffee and get a buzz
- enjoy the smell of caramelizing onions
- get a lifesaving surgery
- have sex
- feel a comforting arm on your shoulder
- do something intricate with your hands and fingers, like carving something into a piece of wood with a nail; even picking up the nail in VR will be hard, let alone the subtle movements, grips and holds, and tactile feedback we take for granted
- experience nature, animals, ecosystems, and interact with them (as they really are, not cutesy programmed versions)
- maximus-decimus 4y ago> - have sex Let's be honest, they're totally gonna make AR glasses that deep-fakes your wife into your favorite waifu while you have sex.
- donmcronald 4y agoIt’ll be full VR. With the headset on you’ll be Hugh Hefner, but with the headset off it’s just you, this (https://youtu.be/qobhDJ_vEOc https://youtu.be/qobhDJ_vEOc), and the advertisers selling anti-depressants.
- carstenhag 4y ago- Feel acceleration of a vehicle This is wrong, I know of a project where you sit in the backseat of a car, put a VR headset on that's connected to the car. There is a driver and you are on a special track in real life. Acceleration is real, but on the VR thingy you are elsewhere. Not sure if it was ever released.
- QuadrupleA 4y agoSure, and flight sim hydraulic rigs, etc. Not sure they're the next ubiquitous consumer platform.
- nice_byte 4y agoyou can do none of these things on other platforms that we interact with daily. doesn't seem to deter us.
- QuadrupleA 4y agoSmartphones fit in less invasively to physical life though. And actually have an intuitive tactile element.