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Not trying to be argumentative, but is a VR helmet really critical to our future? Is it on the same level as food and poverty and peace?
by 72deluxe 13y ago
Not trying to be argumentative, but is a VR helmet really critical to our future?
Is it on the same level as food and poverty and peace?
- thenomad 13y agoTechnological advancements have a funny way of producing important side-benefits. A change as massive as VR - we simply don't know how big a deal it is. For example, as one of the smaller potential side-effects, imagine VR became good enough that there was no practical reason to have people travel for face-to-face meetings. That would have a significant knock-on effect (closing on single-digit percentile worldwide) on carbon emissions, global warming, and potentially catastrophic climate change.
- 72deluxe 13y agoTeleconferencing is currently very possible, including video to video or voice to voice, but this hasn't stopped people travelling around. I am not so sure that VR will suddenly be the thing to take off in this regard; if people aren't happy sat in front of a camera for a meeting, will they be happy wearing a headset?