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One of the most persistently irritating parts of being deep in this space is people loudly proclaiming what it is that VR is truly missing. The answer is not o
by ynx 3y ago
One of the most persistently irritating parts of being deep in this space is people loudly proclaiming what it is that VR is truly missing.
The answer is not only different for different people, but very different for some of them. It's a way for trans people to express their real gender in a way that seriously alleviates their dysphoria, or for people to explore sexuality in a place they are fully equipped to defend themselves in, and discover that their biases or prejudices were weaker than they thought, or outright reaction formations to their real-life environment.
Still others use it as an artistic outlet, a mechanism for connecting to people across the world, a sandbox with which to experiment with and learn certain pieces of technology.
It's been juiced up by Facebook money, sure. It's not purely motivated by that by a long shot. There's a demand and perhaps an oversupply in some respects, but the experiences achievable are legitimately delightful if you know how to look for them. Fantastic escape rooms, beautiful gardens, relaxing rooms, sleepy hideouts, fantasy worlds. This is all happening and has been happening for years.
There are of course serious caveats, such as some people being simply physically unable to tolerate it.
It's a rough piece of technology early in its lifetime and it's got a lot of road to cover, but it's already nailed a level of immersion into an artificial world that nothing else has come even remotely close to - and it's everything else that sucks to some moderate degree and needs to catch up and surpass the norm.
- auggierose 3y agoYou see a bench in your garden, and you cannot sit on it. That's just very disappointing. I don't even want to translate that into the sexual domain ... The idea of VR/AR is super exciting, and beat saber is super fun. The reason why beat saber is super fun is because it manages to transcend the visual only aspect of VR. I don't see how this can be done in general. Unless you can go full Holodeck, I don't see the general appeal for most things. Immersive cinema is certainly a nice application, 3D-avatar facetime is not.
- meindnoch 3y agoTranssexuals and furries... So these are the best use cases for VR after all these years? Really?
- jabradoodle 3y agoThe discussion is about massive tech companies investing giant piles of cash into the technology, making the bet it will be the next mainstream platform. If yourself and some others are having awesome experiences already, no one is doubting or downplaying that.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoRegarding your second paragraph.. These headsets right now can only be powered by the resources a big corp can bring to bear. And big tech has a tendency to relentlessly surveil everyone... collecting and hoarding data is the politer term for that. Given that tendency, the arbitrariness of automated processes that decide whether or not you're banned from an account or platform, and the culture wars, I would be suspicious of consequences down the road from trusting big tech with such intimacy.