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Yeah, I didn't chose my words very well. It seems fairer to state that, in the large - people don't like spending an ordinate amount of time in the fully encas
by lisasays 4y ago
Yeah, I didn't chose my words very well.
It seems fairer to state that, in the large - people don't like spending an ordinate amount of time in the fully encased, totally immersed environment that VR provides (even if, hypothetically, everything were to work perfectly well). Or in the 24x7 corporate theme park that Zuck seems to have believed at one point that they would be flocking to in droves once the headsets got cheap enough.
That's why Netflix is a good example -- it's just TV, not even big screen cinema (which is comparatively far more immersive - and hence, not something people do quite so often). And you're still (ideally) watching with your friends or your loved ones nearby, in the flesh.
There absolutely are use cases for VR -- but my hunch is that they are and always will be niche-y. If it turns out I'm wrong eventually, then fine -- I'll just go wall myself off with my books and let the world immerse itself into oblivion.