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"Visit your local cafe, now in VR. Meet your friends in local spaces, without leaving your home!" Either way, I don't see this taking off. I'm surprised they

"Visit your local cafe, now in VR. Meet your friends in local spaces, without leaving your home!" Either way, I don't see this taking off. I'm surprised they're still pursuing VR.

2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago
I'm afraid to ask for this but I wish I could use something like this for work. Why are we all commuting? I'd like to put on a company issued VR headset and be transported to an office. Just literally recreate the office experience.
- bink 1y ago
  Except with the extra weight of a headset, eye strain, and the uncanny feeling of moving without moving.
- _carbyau_ 1y ago
  Why recreate the office? I get that some people have a psychological mindset to "be in a place so as to do work" but offices are a compromise on so many things, most notably space. Now you have tech to create entire wondrously imaginative virtual worlds and you want to recreate a bland little open plan box to cram avatars into?
  - zmmmmm 1y ago
    I guess you could ask, why offices look like they do? they could already be imaginative spaces but companies mostly opt for "bland" spaces. Probably because if you're going to combine the preferences of 30 people in one space you have to settle for something pretty far down the common denominator tree, which is always going to be "bland".
    - _carbyau_ 1y ago
      True, but when each person is individually fed their vision and sound you don't necessarily have to compromise. Set some specifics, like open space, chair, table/desk. And you could have Hogwarts theme while I have a viking feasting hall.
  - 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago
    Because it's familiar and people already understand it? Virtual office? Why not recreate the office? Too hard? I want a little virtual office and hallways and I can have hallway interactions and knock on virtual doors, etc.
- dostick 1y ago
  There’s at least 8 of such work space apps on Meta Quest, they have whiteboards, you can do stuff together all while in a room in the middle of Alps or in space.
- mailund 1y ago
  kind of feeling like this too much skeuomorphism for my taste, why recreate the office experience when I can already do the work without the commute over slack and teams?
  - 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago
    I do my work remotely via slack and teams, it's more for the return to office crowd.
rhetocj23 1y ago
Is it though? Zuck has a very coloured history and is not really the innovator he wants to think he is. He seems to have an obsession of breaking free of Apples control.
- randycupertino 1y ago
  "He seems to have an obsession of breaking free of Apples control" - can you give more context about this? Does he basically think facebook is shackled by iphone app privacy requirements?

"Visit your local cafe, now in VR. Meet your friends in local spaces, without leaving your home!" Either way, I don't see this taking off. I'm surprised they're still pursuing VR.

2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago

I'm afraid to ask for this but I wish I could use something like this for work. Why are we all commuting? I'd like to put on a company issued VR headset and be transported to an office. Just literally recreate the office experience.

bink 1y ago
Except with the extra weight of a headset, eye strain, and the uncanny feeling of moving without moving.
_carbyau_ 1y ago
Why recreate the office? I get that some people have a psychological mindset to "be in a place so as to do work" but offices are a compromise on so many things, most notably space. Now you have tech to create entire wondrously imaginative virtual worlds and you want to recreate a bland little open plan box to cram avatars into?
- zmmmmm 1y ago
  I guess you could ask, why offices look like they do? they could already be imaginative spaces but companies mostly opt for "bland" spaces. Probably because if you're going to combine the preferences of 30 people in one space you have to settle for something pretty far down the common denominator tree, which is always going to be "bland".
  - _carbyau_ 1y ago
    True, but when each person is individually fed their vision and sound you don't necessarily have to compromise. Set some specifics, like open space, chair, table/desk. And you could have Hogwarts theme while I have a viking feasting hall.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago
  Because it's familiar and people already understand it? Virtual office? Why not recreate the office? Too hard? I want a little virtual office and hallways and I can have hallway interactions and knock on virtual doors, etc.
dostick 1y ago
There’s at least 8 of such work space apps on Meta Quest, they have whiteboards, you can do stuff together all while in a room in the middle of Alps or in space.
mailund 1y ago
kind of feeling like this too much skeuomorphism for my taste, why recreate the office experience when I can already do the work without the commute over slack and teams?
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago
  I do my work remotely via slack and teams, it's more for the return to office crowd.

rhetocj23 1y ago

Is it though? Zuck has a very coloured history and is not really the innovator he wants to think he is. He seems to have an obsession of breaking free of Apples control.

randycupertino 1y ago
"He seems to have an obsession of breaking free of Apples control" - can you give more context about this? Does he basically think facebook is shackled by iphone app privacy requirements?