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People use their 1200 dollar / euro phones on the bus and in the street at night all the time. Not sure what you're suggesting specifically about public transpo
by dbspin 4y ago
People use their 1200 dollar / euro phones on the bus and in the street at night all the time. Not sure what you're suggesting specifically about public transport - but I would never wear a visually occluding headset on a bus in Ireland. But I would wear it on a coach here, or on a bus in Germany, which has a much safer public culture. Providing it had a small form factor, was relatively discrete etc.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoa phone is small, can be easily put away, and can be used while doing other things with limited or no loss of basic spatial awareness; it's not hard to look up from a phone, or put it away. and it's not just the crime angle, it's things like not missing your stop or being aware of the people moving around you so that you're not a nuisance.
- zmmmmm 4y agoI agree with you based on current hardware, but past the tipping point literally everything you say works in favor of using VR with pass through (let's call it MR). These are all in fact the sorts of reasons why I see it as inevitable that this tech will become ubuiquitous, it's only a question of timing.