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Now I finally understand the purpose of virtual reality desktops. I put it on and my room is tidy.
by dvh 3y ago
Now I finally understand the purpose of virtual reality desktops. I put it on and my room is tidy.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoHow long until a slasher film features teens sitting around VR gaming while, unbeknownst to them in their tidy VR living room, Freddy Krueger is having a field day. That jump-scare when the one teen lifts up their headset to see Freddy inches away.
- bradgessler 3y agoI picture the person is dressed in a QR code suit. Encoded in it: "nothing to see here you lookie Lou!"
- jayd16 3y agoReminds me of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. A hacker is able to obscure their face in public by overlaying a logo into every onlookers' passthrough feed.
- birdyrooster 3y agoGhost in the Shell is so ahead of its time we will be catching up for many decades.
- bee_rider 3y agoIt was so cool, I want it to happen even though realistically we’ll all be background technician losers that exist to show how great The Major is.
- sobkas 3y agoWe all here dabble in technology(doesn't matter which one) so possibility of being some brainwashed meat puppet taking part of some covert war between powers that be is more likely. And there are fates that are even worse(think what was in that ship on international waters). GitS is a nightmare and cyberpunk for a reason.
- bee_rider 3y agoPersonally I always thought Togusa had some good points.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoWe are all extras in someone else's movie.
- jerlam 3y agoThe modern version of this is playing a Taylor Swift song so that anyone taking a video will have its audio muted when uploaded.
- trafficante 3y agoFor those not in the know, this is an actual thing that was happening a few years back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/cops-using-music-try-stop-being-filmed-just-tip-iceberg https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/cops-using-music-try-s...
- xattt 3y agoCoupled with object recognition and a UWB-tagged laundry hamper and garbage bin, room cleanup could be game-ified.
- wpietri 3y agoHonestly, this makes sense to me. One of the reasons people don't tidy is getting overwhelmed. Either at an emotional layer, because they see everything. Or at a visual layer, because they stop seeing anything. If you could trim it back to first visualizing the room as clean and then showing them one activity (e.g., see only dishes, so you can focus on collecting those), you might help people retrain.
- jbverschoor 3y agoOr yours “someone” never got to learn how to clean in a structural way, similar to someone who never later learned how to write. Don’t blame lack of knowledge or skill, or any other thing on physiological issues
- wpietri 3y agoGood thing I didn't do that! Actual people actually report actually feeling overwhelmed. They describe the experiences as I describe them. Blogs give strategies to deal with these specific feelings. Is it possible that learning some particular skill will help with that? Surely! Are there other reasons that people might also not clean, ones related to not learning something? Also yes. But that's no reason to show up and be aggressively contrary. Some people's experiences are different than yours and you don't have to leap in to deny that just because it's different for you.
- TillE 3y agoI assume you're mostly joking, but honestly that's a really good insight into how something like Vision Pro might appeal to people. Your environment is super important to your mental/emotional state. If you can jump into different virtual environments for work or relaxation, that'd surely help your brain switch context and focus. I've heard a ton of chat from Apple fans about how most people don't have rooms or work spaces with three meters of empty space in front of them, contrary to Apple's product demos. Environments like Mount Hood sound like a gimmick, but they're probably going to be a huge part of what makes this device work.
- drdaeman 3y agoFake/relaxation environment that stretches out to infinity with nothing to focus on may be a somewhat usable workaround for vergence-accommodation conflict. I suspect that's also why all the demos have all the windows equidistant and there's no depth to the UIs, and why camera passthrough imagery is frequently shown blurred out (so you don't try to focus on it).
- trafficante 3y ago> Your environment is super important to your mental/emotional state. If you can jump into different virtual environments for work or relaxation, that'd surely help your brain switch context and focus. Absolutely crucial observation and one that unfortunately either gets ignored or is attached to negative dystopic connotations like “live in the pod”. This past winter was particularly gloomy here in the Pacific Northwest (which is saying a lot). One of the most impactful strategies I used for dealing with seasonal affective disorder was to sit under a red lamp, put an oscillating fan on low, and load up a hyper-realistic photogrammetry “nature tours” app called Brink XR[1]. Being able to have a modern Calgon Moment with a virtual stretch-out-and-relax in a cloudless Arches National Park did absolute wonders for my overall mood after dealing with yet another miserable day of cold rain with no end in sight. [1] https://youtu.be/j2AdT9C2CK8 https://youtu.be/j2AdT9C2CK8