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I said it before and I’ll say it again. The killer app is home decoration. Repaint your wall in a snap. Change the look of your rugs, your pictures, your wall

I said it before and I’ll say it again. The killer app is home decoration. Repaint your wall in a snap. Change the look of your rugs, your pictures, your wall art. Have fancy place mats for dinner, all for the cost of downloading some new skin virtually. If you and your spouse cannot decide on a paint color, good news, you no longer have to! Customize it to each user and you both see exactly what you like. If you rent and live in a white wall apartment, can’t put holes in walls for pictures, etc, then good news. Just decorate things virtually. Prices will need to come down for VR headsets, and the headsets themselves will need to be wearable for 14 hours a day. So there is still a long way ahead as far as hardware capabilities go. However this software could be created today.

morsch 2y ago
Why stop at home decoration? Don't like the way you look? Just change the picture looking back at you in the mirror. Don't like the the new haircut your spouse got? Hair length is just one of many adjustable parameters! Want to eat steak every day? Just have the headset render your lunch slop as a ribeye!
- codetrotter 2y ago
  > Want to eat steak every day? Just have the headset render your lunch slop as a ribeye! Big Tech: We hear ya! Our new food AR system is always on. Every meal you eat we will prompt you for what appearance to give your food. Different tiers have different micro transaction prices. Of course there is also a free tier. The free tier will render all food as potatoes. Rendering as meat will start at $5/meal. And there is no limit on how fancy we can make the rendering. Nor how much we will charge you for those fancy renderings. Can’t afford it? Enjoy seeing nothing but potatoes for every meal.
- red-iron-pine 2y ago
  but I can just take a selfie / mirror selfie, and edit it on my phone or laptop. don't need to wear expensive-as-hell VR headsets that give me vertigo, and I can do all of the same things effectively in real time, anyway. non-starter of an idea IMO
IggleSniggle 2y ago
> wearable for 14 hours Totally agree that this is the main thing. There are some promising AR glasses, but when you want to work and not just have a HUD, something like the Vision would be better...if it could be comfortable for long stretches. Maybe the Vision is, I think more people would need to try it to know
sylens 2y ago
Those are all tasks you do...what, once every ten years? Hardly a reason to pay $3000+ for a device
- rchaud 2y ago
  The OP seems to be saying that you'd wear this on your face for most of the day so you could 'see' the decorations nearly all the time.

morsch 2y ago

Why stop at home decoration? Don't like the way you look? Just change the picture looking back at you in the mirror. Don't like the the new haircut your spouse got? Hair length is just one of many adjustable parameters! Want to eat steak every day? Just have the headset render your lunch slop as a ribeye!

codetrotter 2y ago
> Want to eat steak every day? Just have the headset render your lunch slop as a ribeye! Big Tech: We hear ya! Our new food AR system is always on. Every meal you eat we will prompt you for what appearance to give your food. Different tiers have different micro transaction prices. Of course there is also a free tier. The free tier will render all food as potatoes. Rendering as meat will start at $5/meal. And there is no limit on how fancy we can make the rendering. Nor how much we will charge you for those fancy renderings. Can’t afford it? Enjoy seeing nothing but potatoes for every meal.
red-iron-pine 2y ago
but I can just take a selfie / mirror selfie, and edit it on my phone or laptop. don't need to wear expensive-as-hell VR headsets that give me vertigo, and I can do all of the same things effectively in real time, anyway. non-starter of an idea IMO

IggleSniggle 2y ago

> wearable for 14 hours Totally agree that this is the main thing. There are some promising AR glasses, but when you want to work and not just have a HUD, something like the Vision would be better...if it could be comfortable for long stretches. Maybe the Vision is, I think more people would need to try it to know

sylens 2y ago

Those are all tasks you do...what, once every ten years? Hardly a reason to pay $3000+ for a device

rchaud 2y ago
The OP seems to be saying that you'd wear this on your face for most of the day so you could 'see' the decorations nearly all the time.