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Boomers were responsible for the late 90s VR hype train. This latest round is a re-run. VR was talked up like crazy then and fizzled. Zuckerberg is old enoug
by ben7799 4y ago
Boomers were responsible for the late 90s VR hype train.
This latest round is a re-run.
VR was talked up like crazy then and fizzled.
Zuckerberg is old enough to have been an impressionable kid when that was going on. I remember being very excited about it all.
- ghaff 4y agoI honestly don't remember a lot of VR hype but I've never been much of gamer so maybe I wasn't paying much attention. Various organizations, including the MIT Media Lab, have been playing around with VR for a long time but I don't recall VR being particularly notable in the dot-com runup.
- justanother 4y agoI remember installing the VRML plugin for Netscape and how it slowed my dual-CPU SPARCStation 20 to a crawl, but it was OMG The Future! and then one day nobody ever mentioned it again.
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- andsoitis 4y ago> Boomers were responsible for the late 90s VR hype train. Sure. I'm just not sure I understand how the current focus/hype by Mark Zuckerberg/Meta can be THE cause for VR to fail (which is what was asserted by the person I was responding to). I mean, are there literally nobody younger who is hyped about VR? Maybe not!