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0 pointsimiric3y ago0 comments

Sure, but you can say the same thing about electric cars and smartphones. Both have had several "failed" attempts, and it wasn't until the technology was mature, cheap and accessible enough that they reached mainstream adoption. There's nothing to say that the same thing won't happen with XR.

If we consider transhumanism as something that's likely to happen, then XR can be viewed as a stepping stone towards that goal. In that sense, it could eventually become as ubiquitous as smartphones are today.

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wpietri3y ago

Yes, in the future anything is possible. But for any given chunk of the future, most possible things don't happen. The interesting question is which bucket a given thing falls into.

I think electric cars cut against your case here. The reason electric cars are becoming popular is that we're finally doing something about global warming. Governments are heavily using both carrot and stick via billions in subsidies and drastically tighter regulation on ICE vehicles. Unless you expect governments to try to end use of monitors, electric cars are an example of why we should be suspicious of facehugger VR.

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wpietri3y ago

Yes, in the future anything is possible. But for any given chunk of the future, most possible things don't happen. The interesting question is which bucket a given thing falls into.

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