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Just think -- you can teleport into an Excel spreadsheet and walk across the columns, just like in real life! You could open your email from realistically ray-

Just think -- you can teleport into an Excel spreadsheet and walk across the columns, just like in real life! You could open your email from realistically ray-traced paper envelopes. You can check the weather by standing out in a virtual field and looking up. You can listen to your podcasts by loading a VR cassette tape into a VR tape deck. You can watch a powerpoint presentation by looking at a VR guy standing at a VR easel. ...so much of what we do on computers has nothing to do with 3D. For most people, it'd be a huge waste of a month's income to do everything they already do, but slower and with a weird interface. There's a market, I'm sure, but not as large a percentage of total computing as many people seem to imagine.

dougmwne 4y ago
You are missing the forest for the trees. Ask yourself, why do we spend so much time looking at 6 inch rectangles? In its final form, this will be a perfect 2D and 3D display of any size accessible using any form of input attached shortly afer birth to our optic nerves or perhaps written into our genetic codes. If you want to touch glass, you can carry around an inert piece of glass in your pocket that will be functionally identically to a phone. This is the platform of the next 1000 years, but I'm not sure if we will see it in the next 100.
- PostOnce 4y ago
  No-one wants to forsake the world we live in to go and get imprisoned on a corporate dystopia infested with ads and questionable "work" at the cost of our peripheral senses and our peace of mind. If, like you say, we will attach computers to optic nerves -- then wars will be fought over it first. edit: besides the detriment, the added-value is still very questionable right now.
  - dougmwne 4y ago
    Not sure which world you are living in, but most people under the age of 70 are already there 100%. The world has been forsaken and we live in a world of screens and ads. The corporate dystopia raises our children, mediates our relationships and infests our politics. The world's formerly richest person is indeed developing the neural implants. It's later than you think.
jimmySixDOF 4y ago
I think you are making a category error here by assuming we will need to use the new tools the same way we use our existing tools. 3D is different and that includes working with 2D things in 3D digital spaces. Working with 3D things in 3D is a natural fit but you are correct, that is a limited problem space. Working with 2D data but where you have a surrounding 6DOF 3D/360 Infinate canvas of possibility provides elbow room to reimagine and improve each of the experiences you list in ways you can't have with physical screens, a keyboard, and a mouse where every feature delivery system is constrained by 2D structural tolerances. Not that PC computing will become obsolete at all; XR will find a place to add a new layer of interactions that complement the human digital partnership in much the same way as the introduction of mobile computing provided in its own way.
- lofaszvanitt 4y ago
  Imagine the aching shoulders people will get :D. We need real life contact, not digital contact for god's sake. This is just another oppression device.

dougmwne 4y ago

You are missing the forest for the trees. Ask yourself, why do we spend so much time looking at 6 inch rectangles? In its final form, this will be a perfect 2D and 3D display of any size accessible using any form of input attached shortly afer birth to our optic nerves or perhaps written into our genetic codes. If you want to touch glass, you can carry around an inert piece of glass in your pocket that will be functionally identically to a phone. This is the platform of the next 1000 years, but I'm not sure if we will see it in the next 100.

PostOnce 4y ago
No-one wants to forsake the world we live in to go and get imprisoned on a corporate dystopia infested with ads and questionable "work" at the cost of our peripheral senses and our peace of mind. If, like you say, we will attach computers to optic nerves -- then wars will be fought over it first. edit: besides the detriment, the added-value is still very questionable right now.
- dougmwne 4y ago
  Not sure which world you are living in, but most people under the age of 70 are already there 100%. The world has been forsaken and we live in a world of screens and ads. The corporate dystopia raises our children, mediates our relationships and infests our politics. The world's formerly richest person is indeed developing the neural implants. It's later than you think.

jimmySixDOF 4y ago

I think you are making a category error here by assuming we will need to use the new tools the same way we use our existing tools. 3D is different and that includes working with 2D things in 3D digital spaces. Working with 3D things in 3D is a natural fit but you are correct, that is a limited problem space. Working with 2D data but where you have a surrounding 6DOF 3D/360 Infinate canvas of possibility provides elbow room to reimagine and improve each of the experiences you list in ways you can't have with physical screens, a keyboard, and a mouse where every feature delivery system is constrained by 2D structural tolerances. Not that PC computing will become obsolete at all; XR will find a place to add a new layer of interactions that complement the human digital partnership in much the same way as the introduction of mobile computing provided in its own way.

lofaszvanitt 4y ago
Imagine the aching shoulders people will get :D. We need real life contact, not digital contact for god's sake. This is just another oppression device.