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> My personal belief is that the browser as we know it today will evolve to be more based around 3D, I interacted with a lot of 3D content, games, apps when I

> My personal belief is that the browser as we know it today will evolve to be more based around 3D, I interacted with a lot of 3D content, games, apps when I was a child / teen but nowadays I largely prefer 2D for all my interactions with computers, be it games, softwares, etc. 3D just feels gimmicky and less productive than WIMP, especially on all the VR headsets I tried. I'm curious if other people feel different.

jasonwatkinspdx 4y ago
There's an intentionality or exclusive focus aspect to 3D content. When you're working in a 2D desktop alt tabbing or rapidly task switching between monitors feels very low friction and natural. When you load up a game, a CAD app, etc, there's much more of a "ok I'm just going to do only this now" aspect that I think is interesting. For this reason I'm highly skeptical 3D will replace 2D.
- dylan604 4y ago
  > "ok I'm just going to do only this now" for most of the games and other VR entertainment stuff, this is precisely what the producers what of you. they throw around terms like immersive. they want you in the world they created and believe that it make the experience that much more when you forget about where you really are and believer yourself to be in the virtual place. there's a definite time and place for that idea, but have never once felt that the content i was "immersed" in really had me at a level of suspension of disbelief to the level the producers had hoped. at that point, what is the point of it. i am not one bit intrigued by theZuck's vision. i do not want to hang out in a virtual conference room around a virtual conference table looking at cartoon versions of people because it's cute. you can cute the fuck out of it until the knob goes to eleven, but it doesn't make this boring as meeting any more enjoyable.
rngname22 4y ago
Can you explain how you interacted with 3D content when you were a child/teen? I think you might be conflating 3D graphics engines that render a 2D image on a 2D monitor with modern stereoscopic 3D headsets.

jasonwatkinspdx 4y ago

There's an intentionality or exclusive focus aspect to 3D content. When you're working in a 2D desktop alt tabbing or rapidly task switching between monitors feels very low friction and natural. When you load up a game, a CAD app, etc, there's much more of a "ok I'm just going to do only this now" aspect that I think is interesting. For this reason I'm highly skeptical 3D will replace 2D.

dylan604 4y ago
> "ok I'm just going to do only this now" for most of the games and other VR entertainment stuff, this is precisely what the producers what of you. they throw around terms like immersive. they want you in the world they created and believe that it make the experience that much more when you forget about where you really are and believer yourself to be in the virtual place. there's a definite time and place for that idea, but have never once felt that the content i was "immersed" in really had me at a level of suspension of disbelief to the level the producers had hoped. at that point, what is the point of it. i am not one bit intrigued by theZuck's vision. i do not want to hang out in a virtual conference room around a virtual conference table looking at cartoon versions of people because it's cute. you can cute the fuck out of it until the knob goes to eleven, but it doesn't make this boring as meeting any more enjoyable.

rngname22 4y ago

Can you explain how you interacted with 3D content when you were a child/teen? I think you might be conflating 3D graphics engines that render a 2D image on a 2D monitor with modern stereoscopic 3D headsets.