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0 pointsdrzaiusapelord8y ago0 comments

I have a Vive and do all these things and I think its fair to say this is very much an acquired taste.

Maybe for your super techy types like us, but this isn't translating down to people who casually use fb and skype. Its clunky and confining.

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bhhaskin8y ago

Everything has to start somewhere. It wasn't too long ago that most people would have said the same about computers in general.

drzaiusapelordOP8y ago

Is that true? I mean the utility of the computer was instantly recognized and brought into offices as soon as practically possible. We've way deep into 'practical' territory for VR and it really hasn't done anything but appeal to some limited industries and a tiny slice of gamers.

You can't just hand-wave the "Google Glasses" part of VR away. There are concrete barriers to entry here. Grandma is not going to like strapping a huge screen to her face, even if it can be made a few ounces lighter, for example. People don't like to be 'locked into' interfaces. Nausea is an unsolved problem. Video card power is significant for non-trivial displays.

There's a lot of cons here for the very few pros.

TuringTest8y ago

> I mean the utility of the computer was instantly recognized and brought into offices as soon as practically possible.

You may be too young to remember, but that is definitely not true. During the 80's, the only use they could advertise computers to adults was "you can keep you recipies in it" and "you can do accounting". Heck, "there is a world market for about five computers" was a sentence aimed at business at some point.

Wait till the Marketing departments find a way to create the need on all those FB followers, with those "trendy lifestyle" ads.

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