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A lot of questions about how much interest there could be outside of video games, and that's okay! To be honest, video games could be a great proving ground fo

by Zikes 11y ago

A lot of questions about how much interest there could be outside of video games, and that's okay! To be honest, video games could be a great proving ground for the technology. Gamers are used to being early adopters and tend not to be afraid to try new things, and after VR developers have sufficiently experimented in arena they can branch out in earnest. Even if it winds up being a primarily gaming-related accessory, I think it can still achieve success.

prawn 11y ago
I think there will be some eventual movement in remote working, virtual offices, etc. The hard part of telepresence is contact, but physical contact isn't something that is an issue in a typical office environment - it's facial expressions, screen sharing, etc. Once the resolution can handle virtual screens and facial tracking can handle some level of expressive avatars, we'll see some movement. Bosses will be more comfortable with remote workers when they can keep track of them like other workers in what feels like a real office. Businesses will start to reconsider leasing an expensive physical office and instead leave their workers in home offices, while having them interact in a virtual space. Virtual desktops, virtual screens, look sideways or behind you in the room to see virtual colleagues. In a small web business, I can spend $xk on goggles, have everyone work from home, and save $x0k on rent. Then imagine game chat from consoles applied to an office. A whisper goes to your team, a shout to everyone. Employees could set their status to leave-me-alone to be left off everything but the most crucial announcement - that's an improvement on current open plan offices where you only option is headphones. A toggled HUD could show what the rest of the team is working on, etc. Before avatars have expressions, I can imagine people working in a virtual office full of helmeted Daft Punk colleagues.

by Zikes 11y ago

prawn 11y ago

I think there will be some eventual movement in remote working, virtual offices, etc. The hard part of telepresence is contact, but physical contact isn't something that is an issue in a typical office environment - it's facial expressions, screen sharing, etc. Once the resolution can handle virtual screens and facial tracking can handle some level of expressive avatars, we'll see some movement. Bosses will be more comfortable with remote workers when they can keep track of them like other workers in what feels like a real office. Businesses will start to reconsider leasing an expensive physical office and instead leave their workers in home offices, while having them interact in a virtual space. Virtual desktops, virtual screens, look sideways or behind you in the room to see virtual colleagues. In a small web business, I can spend $xk on goggles, have everyone work from home, and save $x0k on rent. Then imagine game chat from consoles applied to an office. A whisper goes to your team, a shout to everyone. Employees could set their status to leave-me-alone to be left off everything but the most crucial announcement - that's an improvement on current open plan offices where you only option is headphones. A toggled HUD could show what the rest of the team is working on, etc. Before avatars have expressions, I can imagine people working in a virtual office full of helmeted Daft Punk colleagues.