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Going on a major tangent, VR today feels a lot like the BBS era: too few people see the potential and future of the technology. Of those few who do see it, they
by chaostheory 4y ago
Going on a major tangent, VR today feels a lot like the BBS era: too few people see the potential and future of the technology. Of those few who do see it, they tend to be geeks in their tweens and teens.
- i386 4y agoNo, all VR is just the internet with extra steps.
- chaostheory 4y agoYes, and the internet is just a bigger set of interconnected BBS’s
- i386 4y agoThe internet is BBS with less steps.
- chaostheory 4y agoLook, it’s obvious that you haven’t used modern VR. Google Cardboard doesn’t count. Sure, you have extra steps, but it buys you a lot in return.
- _chu1 4y agoNot at all, VR is a solution trying to find a problem. Why not just use a phone?
- chaostheory 4y ago“Why are you typing on the computer on the internet? Why not just use a phone?” VR already solves a lot of problems such as better sims for various applications, and more presence when interacting with people physically far away. There are plenty more XR centric solutions that are novel. However, just like in the homebrew computing and pre-internet BBS eras it’s mostly teens and younger who could understand and see the future