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0 pointsoblio3y ago0 comments

VR will be a dud for a long time. We need a lot of tech advancements and then we need an actual business model (i.e. killer app).

AR is the real deal for the immediate future. AR has direct applications in a lot of environments.

To put it shortly, AR is something that will be truly useful within the next 5-10 years, VR is something will be truly useful within the next 20-25 years.

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rsynnott3y ago

AR definitely (already) has specialized industrial applications. I think it's _somewhat_ less clear that there's a mass-market consumer product there, though.

oblioOP3y ago

How so? It's incredibly clear :-)

Once we get the tech to actually put it into glasses properly, it will be ubiquitous.

Google Glass failed because the tech wasn't there yet, smart glasses need to look like regular glasses. Once they do, then of course everyone will want it. For anyone willing to wear glasses, smart glasses are basically the smartphone killer (or enhancer).

VR is the odd one out for mass-market consumer products. Flight simulators and the like don't cut it as "mass-market".

parasubvert3y ago

What defines mass market? Meta has sold over 15 million Quest 2 units in the past two years.

In that time they’ve debatably eclipsed the entire VR headset industry units sold over the past decade - about 10 million mostly PSVR, but some Samsung, Vive and Valve.

The PS5 has sold 20 million, for reference.

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