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[ViktorTheBoar]

Is "going down" actually a hip and cool thing?

[Schoq]

it's a sex thing

[s0]

it's a sex thing

as is VR

!!!!

[Schoq]

everything is safe for work when the display technology by design excludes other eyes™

[Türbo Bröther]

a ~1000$ phone is wealth you can display on everyday basis like shoes,watches and google glasses.

How does a thousand dollar phone cope when going through a window or down a flight of stairs or into the bay?

[AlexRamallo]

People seem to keep forgetting what "virtual reality" is. It's not stereoscopic rendering and motion controllers, it's the illusion that you're in a different reality. VR isn't a bad idea just because you don't like the handful of headsets that are being sold in 2017. The concept itself is great, but the technology is still working to catch up.


I think the problem is that Facebook forgot that these headsets are still only appealing to early adopter types, and they've gone all-in with marketing it to the average consumer who is likely to just lump the tech into the vague "3D" category, like "3D TVs" or "3D graphics".


So when someone without the tolerance of an early adopter clicks a Facebook ad and buys an HMD expecting to wander into a vast OASIS™ filled with magical wonders, and finds out that all they can do is play shooty gun games, they're going to be sorely disappointed and think virtual reality is terrible.


It's like Google Glass. Even though those stupid glasses were NEVER described as a consumer ready product, and you could only buy them by applying to become an "explorer" or whatever they called it, there were still tons of videos on youtube doing unboxings and reviews as if it were just your average piece of tech you could pick up at your neighborhood Walmart.

[s0]

We're going up-up-up-up-up-up-up
VR
An everlasting piece of art
A beating love within my heart
We're going up-up-up-up-up-up-up