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0 pointssedatk4y ago0 comments

VR hasn't even caught on to start getting old. It's still at its very early stages. We have yet to see the best of it.

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nikolay4y ago· 2 in thread

I use my son as a sounding board on many things and it's been working pretty successfully for me. He was HIGHLY interested in VR, I got him an Oculus, and a bunch of other headsets before that, he went to play with Microsoft's at their stores, but today he has absolutely no interest - neither of his friends is into it either, none of the multitudes of sources he follows are interested either! You keep trying to abuse a corpse! I just cannot imagine a psychologically sane adult who would put on a headset and become an infantile avatar in a virtual world. It's sickening on any level! It's like the 3D movies which nobody cares about now! Gimmicks are always temporary.

sedatkOP4y ago

What you say sounds like someone from the 70's bashing video games as a gimmick because their son got bored of playing Pong. As I said, it's too early for VR to catch on; there is still a huge space to explore there. Infantile avatars in VR is Pong in the 70's. Headset itself may be a temporary gimmick as we will surely get better ways to connect our senses to virtual worlds, but VR isn't going away.

nikolay4y ago

No, everybody liked video games; I know nobody who likes VR. I'm sorry to ruin your assumptions, but I'm am a pathological case of an early adopter and have been for over 30 years!

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