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Thomas Spooks πŸŽƒπŸ‘»πŸ’€
@thomasfuchs.at

Companies are doing this because VR has been the biggest tech hardware/feature flop since 3D TVs. But AR certainly will work! Pinky swear! Totally it will! It's completely different! It's entirely something else!

The Spaceshipper πŸš€@thespaceshipper.com

"Piloting a podracer at wild speeds through a Holotable that only becomes as large as your arms can stretch is a deeply flawed idea. I can’t see far enough ahead to plan turns, and it's never as thrilling as actually sitting in the cockpit." That's what I feared from the first look.

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Thomas Spooks πŸŽƒπŸ‘»πŸ’€
@thomasfuchs.at

I think it's the poster child for a technology that appears to be super cool and very impressive but doesn't seem to understand humans. This is different from e.g. LLMs which are marketed in a fraudulent way (this includes using chatbot interfaces that pretend to by human-like).

Jesse's Heckin' Tech πŸ“Ί
@heckintech.bsky.social

During peak pandemic, I was hanging out with friends EVERY evening, to play laser tag, Minigolf, watch movies together, or to just sit and chat! VR was one of the best purchases I've ever made. There's SO much potential! πŸ˜ƒ But it IS niche, and being run by disconnected billionaire toddlers. 😞

Jesse's Heckin' Tech πŸ“Ί
@heckintech.bsky.social

Haha, you're not wrong! 🀣 It's the wild west days of VR, and people's first experiences are usually with BAD hardware (like Google cardboard / other phone based things) OR, BAD software, like putting people on a rollercoaster. I've been VR'ing for near 10 years and I still can't do the coasters.. 🀒

Alex Venz
@ptpetra.bsky.social

Honestly, VR is pretty awesome but is still cost prohibitive to do well & something like 80% of people experience cybersickness when you strap them into an HMD. Motion sickness adaption is a slow, uncomfortable process most aren’t willing to go through just to use VR.

Alex Venz
@ptpetra.bsky.social

I can see the appeal of AR in that it eases the cybersickness problem, but at the cost of more restrictive/worse experiences in a lot of cases. Flailing to recover R&D money at the realization of how small the market is for the current state of tech?