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You're right that we need to be aware of this because we can and WILL be exploited via these avenues, but for now at least, it's kinda the other way around - a
by samplatt 3y ago
You're right that we need to be aware of this because we can and WILL be exploited via these avenues, but for now at least, it's kinda the other way around - a family that stays together naturally wants to share content with each other.
"Hey, let's play a game!" What sort of game? "One we can play together" Welp looks like this multi-thousand-$$ toy is out then, lets go back to traditional games.
- throwup238 3y ago> a family that stays together naturally wants to share content with each other. “Content” is the worst euphemism I’ve ever heard. You have been fully exploited. Real families want to share quality family time in the real world, not “content”
- samplatt 3y agoOkay: "naturally wants to share experiences with each other." Or is that too web 1.0? VR/AR has the capacity to bridge technology platforms that have hitherto been kept separate, sometimes by cultural forces, and sometimes for good reason. Words like 'content' are ripe for misinterpretation - I'd be more careful about assuming too much about strangers on the internet, mate. To be fair, I should have been less vague, especially on a thread about an apple product where people tend to get a bit evangelical.
- mckn1ght 3y ago> You have been fully exploited. That's a bit harsh. "Content" can mean a wide variety of things, and smartphones/tablets are capable of displaying such a wide variety of things. We strive to curtail our own usage of devices around our young daughter at home. The extent of her screen time is maybe 1-2 movie nights per month. But she and I do around 5-10 minutes of Duolingo/Pimsleur every day. She asks every morning if we're going to "do French" today (even though we switched to Hungarian for most of this year). Are we fully exploited?
- throwup238 3y ago[flagged]
- mckn1ght 3y agoI didn't think it was directed at me, but you presented a false dichotomy between "quality time" and "sharing content" and I gave an example of how the two can overlap.
- spike021 3y ago> Real families want to share quality family time in the real world, not “content” You've never gone on a nice trip and then when back home with relatives streamed photos/video of that trip to a TV to share?
- JohnFen 3y agoI've never done this, nor has any of my friends or family. Not attaching any sort of value judgement to this one way or another, but just saying that it isn't a universally common sort of activity.
- newaccount74 3y agoShowing photos and videos to friends and family is a pretty common thing to do? In the 90ies most people just passed prints around, or if it was pictures of a special occasion people would pass a photo album around. The more elaborate version would be inviting people to look at slides on a projector. Nowadays most people show photos and videos on their mobile phone, and if you are fancy you put them on a TV with Airplay or Chromecast (or whatever the Android version is called).
- JohnFen 3y agoIt appears to me that this is a culturally dependent sort of thing, which is why I said it isn't "universally common" rather than it isn't common. For instance, I'm a graybeard and in my entire life, I've only seen people do that a couple of times. And even then, the people being shown the media were putting up with it out of politeness. What people in my part of the US tend to do is tell the stories of the trip rather than show pictures. People here usually don't want to see pictures or video, they want to hear the stories.
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- microtonal 3y agoOnce a SV PR department is done with it, I’m sure that families will not share ‘content’ but ‘experiences’.
- atoav 3y agoYou can always go out and play with a stick and a rock. If you live somewhere where there is a stick and a rock.