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The technology is incredibly compelling - which is the main thing, that people are exciting about it - but there are definitely things about it that area creepi
by brandall10 3y ago
The technology is incredibly compelling - which is the main thing, that people are exciting about it - but there are definitely things about it that area creeping people out... I've noticed these pop up in discussions
- The isolation aspects of consuming TV/movies (Mark has a point here IMO)
- The whole taking 3d images/videos of your children with a headset on
- The uncanny valley Facetime avatars
- The external screen that gives a window to your eyes in AR mode
- seanhunter 3y agoAgree with all of those. I think the interaction between people with headsets on and no headset on is one of the things we'll really need to see play out to see how it works in a real social context once the device itself isn't a novelty. At the moment it seems incredibly distopian at best. Apple is the first attempt to actually try to address that it seems (eg by fading people who are in your periphery into the picture in the headset so you at least see them and fading an image of your face onto the outside of the headset so they at least sort of see you). But it's still weird af, no question. I was specifically speaking about the interface, which when meta introduced theirs had all these weird things "Why has nobody got legs? Why does it look like absolute arse? etc". It didn't have those. It looked slick, like you would expect from Apple.