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it's also a bad vr headset. it's an augmented reality headset that does vr secondarily. and surprisingly uncomfortable.

I didn't realize that VR was big in the furry community, but it makes sense.

Do they have a specific app/community? Things like VRchat I can't imagine being very well suited to furries, since you'd have random people coming in yelling slurs/bigoted shit.

I've always been tangentially fascinated with the furry community, while not one myself. Always seemed like an interesting, weird group, which as someone a part of other weird groups.....you go furries.

I’m relatively confident there is VR porn.

With no controllers made by Apple, it seems VR gaming wasn't an intended use either as devs aren't going to port games if most users don't have them. Which only leaves people who will pay that price for a glorified external monitor.

Definitely the colors.

I'll take both

Yep. The problem is that they keep trying to push it as some sort of workspace for home or office.

It’s a shitty workspace. Nobody wants that box strapped to their face and work in a cartoonish porthole view world. The controllers are limited in functionality and using a physical desktop while somewhat blind sucks.

However, for visualization and gaming, it’s great! But not for $3,500. $200-$400? Yeah, that’s doable.

This is just the early versions we'll look back on and laugh at even when the successful versions have taken over EVERYTHING.

so VR equipment is getting lightweight and powerful enough for high realism. AI is just about generating compelling reality on the fly. Augmented realty is just about working smoothly thanks to modern hardware.

Now give everything another 10 years development.

We'll be tapping up compelling 3d 'personal shoppers' and 'personal customer service agents' that feel more like butlers and servants because they ARE. And they'll be 100% generated and pretty easy to talk to, especially compared to waiting on the phone or trying to type chat.

Perhaps Zucks metaverse dream will be located in there somewhere. What if in that time we nail 3d video chat - perhaps a dose of AI and VR 'learning you' so it gives you realistic micro gestures without having to scan your face aggressively.

I can see it all becoming a lot more believable. And chatting to company AI services like you would a person becoming the norm.

And someone will be like "ha, remember the 'metaverse' back in 2023/4?" and someone else will point out all the technology they're using right then and there is owned by meta. In fact I bet there'll be a TIL post about it in 2035...

They didn't say VR was dead, just not mainstream. Which is okay. Not everything has to be.

Just because those exist doesn't make them mainstream. Less than 1% of players own any of those devices.

That's like saying 3D TVs are mainstream. We all saw how that turned out.

I wouldn't say it's mainstream just because there are a few affordable options. It's still a niche subset of gaming in general.

And guess what? A fancy piece of hardware isn't going to make it happen. It needs software! Part of the reason VR is stagnating is because it doesn't have any good fucking games. You've got a ton of shit that is no more than a 5-10 minute experience you'd check out once and then never again. You've got one, maybe two, actually good games that take full advantage of what VR can do. And that's it. What good is a VR headset if there is nothing to fucking do in it? Which is exactly what sucks about the Vision Pro. Thing is $3500 and has next to nothing to run on it (like even less than a Quest or PSVR) lol

Meta thought it would be the next big thing, so much that they renamed themselves "meta". A lot of companies have been courting VR as a future big market, but we definitely haven't seen it blow up like companies hoped it would. I wouldn't say it's a dead market, but I would definitely put it as more of a novelty than a mainstream success.

I'm really hoping someone other than meta will make something competitive again, I've been waiting to get back into VR. I went through 2 vive base stations presumably due to cold temperatures, and now have given up on VR until something better comes out (even though I love it and am entirely convinced it will be huge).

PLEASE! Yes yes yes!

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