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posted by CoolHand on Monday June 19 2017, @04:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-look-back dept.

YouTube's revealed the secret to making an engaging virtual reality video: put the best parts right in front of the audience so they don't have to move their heads.

Google's video vault offers that advice on the basis of heat maps it's created based on analysis of where VR viewers point their heads while wearing VR goggles. There's just such a heat map at the top of this story (or here for m.reg readers) and a bigger one here.

The many heat maps YouTube has made lead it to suggest that VR video creators "Focus on what's in front of you: The defining feature of a 360-degree video is that it allows you to freely look around in any direction, but surprisingly, people spent 75% of their time within the front 90 degrees of a video. So don't forget to spend significant time on what's in front of the viewer."

YouTube also advises that "for many of the most popular VR videos, people viewed more of the full 360-degree space with almost 20% of views actually being behind them." Which sounds to El Reg like VR viewers are either staring straight ahead, or looking over their shoulders with very little time being devoted to sideways glances.

A video channel wants people to treat VR like video. Hmmm. Perhaps the answer to their question is in the question: people should be considered "participants" instead of an "audience."


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @04:53PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @04:53PM (#528003)

    Didn't thespians figure this out a long time ago?

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @04:59PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @04:59PM (#528008)

      No, old dead people were stupid and that's why they're dead. Only young hipsters know anything about anything. Disrupting, bro!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @08:21PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @08:21PM (#528122)

        Found the old dude who somehow managed to figure out the internet!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:01PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:01PM (#528010)

    i'm not going to comment since it will be considered off-topic and be deleted anyways ...
    nevermind that "occulus app" and "daydream app" are artificially incompatible.
    a +100 $$$ headset that can't (or won't) run apps that run on a literally cardboard made headset.
    nevermind that the "daydream" apps have a mega-huge server farm with gazillion HDDs w/ data (read: google) for the
    VR to look into.
    note: bonus points if you can get "streetview 360" to run on a samsung gear VR headset ... nasty stuff.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:09PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:09PM (#528022)

      Seriously. Give up computing; it's a total waste of time, especially now that computers don't really exist anymore—everything is just a "device" now.

      You don't need these things in your life, and you'll feel so much better when you start spending your time with aspects of being alive which do not require you to mold yourself to some other person's view of the way things should be; computers suck because people suck, so drop them like you would a toxic relationship.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @06:01PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @06:01PM (#528055)

        Socializing is for winners and I'm a loser so I'll just stay in the basement with a big pile of books. Can't ever have a toxic relationship with a book. Except those books that are printed on glossy lead based paper. Those books are toxic so I don't have any of those books.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @08:40PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @08:40PM (#528135)

        Nah, we're just in the painful inbetween stage. Once we get privacy clawed back from the corporations (or at least popular non-central alternatives) then we can get back to human value with computing.

        It is funny, you say go out into the world cause people suck... so what is the difference between hiking alone away from people (or whatever you're in to) and playing a single player game? Reading a book? Etc.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @08:56PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @08:56PM (#528145)

          Try again.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 19 2017, @08:02PM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday June 19 2017, @08:02PM (#528110) Journal

      Comments don't get deleted and you made a comment anyway. Fix your head.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday June 19 2017, @05:04PM (8 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Monday June 19 2017, @05:04PM (#528014)

    The best way to design a VR experience is to minimize the part that actually makes VR unique?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:07PM (#528019)

      Perhaps if there were audio clues to get the user looking in that direction.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:17PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:17PM (#528027)

      no. according to MARKETING the best VR experience is the one that fleeces the buyers pocket.
      imagine:
        nice brown fertil dirt. it just rained and if you look closely you see a small two leaf sprout (w/ a nice rain drop that covers half a leaf).
      along jumps a merry market-guru and happens upon this new life in the world.
      in astonishment, he grabs his mobile phone and snaps picture from all sides and sends it off for the whole world to see.
      not long after, people show up to have a look too.
      the market-guru, thus, sticks some branches into the ground and proceeds to collect "entrance fees". photos cost extra.
      after doing this for a while, he stops because he made so much money that any penny more would not allow him to walk because of the weight.
      nevermind that on his exit he happens to step onto the sprout, crushing it.

      this is VR on android. it totally works, but IT wasn't the main goal. the main goal was to hype it (maybe we'll get a version 2.0 this time with "deep learning") and to fleece the pockets of ... well .. consumers. consumers, not supporters!

    • (Score: 2) by rigrig on Monday June 19 2017, @05:17PM (4 children)

      by rigrig (5129) Subscriber Badge <soylentnews@tubul.net> on Monday June 19 2017, @05:17PM (#528029) Homepage

      The advantage of VR is the immersion you get because you can look anywhere and still see the virtual world.
      Having the action move around you is at best annoying because you need to keep turning around to watch what is happening, and at worst really detrimental to the experience because you are constantly reminded that things are only zipping all around you because the content creator felt the need to use the possibilities of VR to the fullest.

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      • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday June 19 2017, @07:15PM (1 child)

        by bob_super (1357) on Monday June 19 2017, @07:15PM (#528093)

        I'm split between the need to point out people dwindling attention spans, with the need to always look around rather than focus on something, and the need to point out that people's lives and ficus now seem to fit on 5 degrees of their visual space, or whatever less than 6 inches resolves to at arms' length (crotch location optional).

        • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 20 2017, @01:38AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 20 2017, @01:38AM (#528280)

          arms' length (crotch location optional).

          I'd call that low-hanging fruit!

      • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 19 2017, @08:28PM (1 child)

        by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 19 2017, @08:28PM (#528127)

        The advantage of VR is the immersion you get because you can look anywhere and still see the virtual world.

        On the other hand something like "very full field of vision with few distractions" would work well for games like minecraft.

        As a gaming related topic I'd say based on the flight lessons I took in meatspace that 75% of the time looking forward is not a problem for a flight simulator.

        "Gaming" as defined in the popular press as FPS sequels probably works 75% looking forward. I can't imagine turning physically in circles IRL to play a game so glancing left and right is for situational awareness not bodily rotation. I don't rotate my neck to turn my body anyway, seems unnatural.

        Probably a separate problem WRT people not being used to being passive observers who can turn around. So you're playing the FPS or whatever and the something is sneaking up on you while you don't turn around, or something.

    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday June 20 2017, @06:22AM

      by frojack (1554) on Tuesday June 20 2017, @06:22AM (#528354) Journal

      Wait, you yourself spend 75 percent of your time looking in that same 90 degree cone straight in front of you.

      All people do. We have periferal vision to warn us to take a quick peek, then we go right back to the task at hand looking pretty much straight ahead. That's how we operate. If something requires much attention to the left or right we turn our bodies.

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday June 19 2017, @05:05PM (16 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday June 19 2017, @05:05PM (#528017) Journal

    I think VR video is pretty unnecessary as a form of entertainment. What else is the audience going to look at? The extra standing off frame talking to their fake extra girlfriend? The fireball from an explosion as it rises into the sky? I don't get it other than the "oh shiny" factor that dupes idiots into spending thousands on gimmicks that won't see use past the first or second day.

    I have tested a few VR rigs and while extremely impressive, still needs applications that make it worthwhile. Games are a big chunk of that along with simulations, virtual tours, and even medical or defence. But sitting in a chair at a theater or living room to watch a movie is just stupid. It reeks of trying to give VR mass appeal so more people throw their money away on stupid shit.

    And lastly, picture what that would look like. Imagine walking into a room full of people sitting in chairs, with a VR headset strapped to their head, each in their own little world oo-ing and ah-ing at nothing. Would look like an insane asylum. It's rather dehumanizing.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:13PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:13PM (#528026)

      For instance, an interaction between 2 characters is frequently shot with one in the background and one in the foreground; I'm almost never satisfied with the choice of focus—I tend to be interested in looking at the person who is blurry, which kind of ruins the magic of visual media.

      If VR tech can handle my ability to choose what should be in focus, then that would be utterly transformative for the sense of immersion.

      • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday June 19 2017, @07:23PM (4 children)

        by bob_super (1357) on Monday June 19 2017, @07:23PM (#528101)

        It is quite idiotic to use VR, a system designed for free-form 360 degrees viewing, to watch a movie or documentary, where a big part of the director's effort go to making you look at various things in a certain sequence to create a narrative.

        Use VR for open-world games (renew the detective genre, or go around shooting stuff as usual), architecture, landscapes... Anything where you're advancing the story at your pace, not someone else's...

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @07:40PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @07:40PM (#528103)

          I'm telling you that I think the director made a mistake; he has failed to capture my attention, and has instead broken the illusion.

          Then again, when I watch movies with other people, I find that they have almost zero conscious appreciation for the cinematographic choices that are being made; they seem completely oblivious to that aspect of the artistry.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @09:14PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @09:14PM (#528153)

            People care more for content than the delivery. If two people are talking then the importance of the videography is second to the story line. Generally people focus on what the people are saying more than the atmosphere they're saying it in. That is just normal, deviations from that norm require focus and attention otherwise the brain just works around any awkward visuals as long as they aren't too extreme.

        • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday June 20 2017, @06:25AM (1 child)

          by frojack (1554) on Tuesday June 20 2017, @06:25AM (#528355) Journal

          I find it idiotic for You to make pronouncements about how OTHER people use technology.
          Who appointed you?

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          • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday June 20 2017, @07:18AM

            by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday June 20 2017, @07:18AM (#528359)

            Someone who likes to read opinions preceded or followed by a rational, if arguably limited by time and format, justification.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:21PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:21PM (#528031)

      3D in VR is pretty cool. it doesnt need a big TV and you can watch in the bed or stretched out on the couch.
      nevermind, that the "occulus app store" app "occulus video" cannot even access a samba share and the +1 GB 3D movie file has to reside on the mobile phone, which has like, you know ... storage space come out the ears ...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:27PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:27PM (#528035)

      Yeah, I'm not sure honestly what kind of potential VR has for movies. Isn't everything the director wants me to see going to be straight ahead anyway? I mean, maybe they could release a remake of Cloverfield where you're the camera guy, which would be cool. I don't see many other movies where that would work.

      On the other hand, there's a new Monster Hunter coming out, and I would love for it to support VR. Having 3D on the 3DS with MHGen really helped improve my accuracy. My spatial awareness without depth perception is basically non-existent, and judging exactly how far my character is from the monster can be the difference between dodging the move I know the monster is about to do and then landing a nice combo vs. being sent flying with a pixel of health left. I mean, not that my spatial awareness is great with 3D, but it needs all the help it can get.

      Even better if I'm able to glance around when I realize that I'm one wrong move away from getting my ass handed to me and desperately trying to run to the next area over so I can heal. The camera controls on the 3DS were pretty much shit, with which I fault the DS itself. (Options are a nub on 3DS XL that's nowhere near as good as the keyboard nipple on Thinkpads or a touchscreen with no tactile feedback so I have no idea what direction my thumb is pressing until it's too late and I run smack into a wall because the camera is now staring straight at the ground, quickly followed by a death blow from the monster. Also the d-pad is available, which is what I use sometimes, but it's on the same side as the movement stick, which made it next to worthless.) The Wii classic controller on MHTri was excellent, but being able to just glance would be perfect.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by arslan on Monday June 19 2017, @11:12PM

        by arslan (3462) on Monday June 19 2017, @11:12PM (#528198)

        Have you actually tried it? I have on my cheap $5 google cardboard, first version a while ago, and it is pretty good. Much better than the gimmicky 3D in cinemas. Yes things you're supposed to focus on is straight ahead, but the things that move past you are within your peripheral vision making it more realistic. Can't really get that in the movies. Of course back then, the resolution was crap but that was a while ago, hopefully they've improved now. Also I can lie down in my hammock or deck lounge comfortably while watching...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:55PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:55PM (#528051)

      Probably about as useful as 3D TV which died in 2 years...

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 19 2017, @08:31PM (3 children)

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 19 2017, @08:31PM (#528130)

      virtual tours

      I suspect this is where its gonna be at.

      The problem legacy TV has is progressive politics repels pretty much everyone making it impossible to produce something not-leftist while nobody non-leftist wants to watch.

      The politics of visiting the grand canyon are, so far, tolerable and profitable.

      • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 19 2017, @08:43PM

        by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday June 19 2017, @08:43PM (#528137) Journal

        The politics of visiting the grand canyon are, so far, tolerable and profitable.

        I think I can think of a political angle or two for the grand canyon [wikipedia.org].

        The federal government administrators who manage park resources face many challenges. These include issues related to the recent reintroduction into the wild of the highly endangered California condor, air tour overflight noise levels, water rights disputes with various tribal reservations that border the park, and forest fire management. Federal officials started a flood in the Grand Canyon in hopes of restoring its ecosystem on March 5, 2008. The canyon's ecosystem was permanently changed after the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam in 1963.

        Between 2003 and 2011, 2,215 mining claims had been requested that are adjacent to the canyon, including claims for uranium mines. Mining has been suspended since 2009, when U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar withdrew 1 million acres (4,000 km2) from the permitting process, pending assessment of the environmental impact of mining. Critics of the mines are concerned that, once mined, the uranium will leach into the water of the Colorado River and contaminate the water supply for up to 18 million people. Salazar's so-called "Northern Arizona Withdrawal" is a 20-year moratorium on new mines, but allows existing mines to continue. In 2012, the federal government stopped new mines in the area, which was upheld by the U.S. District Court for Arizona in 2014, but appealed by the National Mining Association, joined by the state of Arizona under Attorney General Mark Brnovich as well as Utah, Montana and Nevada. National Mining Association v. Jewell is pending before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as of September 2015.

        Here's a 360 video of the grand canyon btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOajv_P6UQE [youtube.com]

        One related video shows a tornado. Let's slap 360 degree canyons cameras on the vans of all storm chasers.

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      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday June 19 2017, @10:01PM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday June 19 2017, @10:01PM (#528175) Journal

        making it impossible to produce something not-leftist while nobody non-leftist wants to watch.

        Come, now. Surely you can watch Left Behind and its sequels, Happy Days, Highway to Heaven, and the Lawrence Welk Show. There's plenty of conservative-friendly fare if you're willing to look and not insist that liberal fare not exist at all at the same time.

        Or maybe this is a business opportunity: create an all-torture channel, or a comedy channel that does nothing but make fun of minorities (not sure which way your conservatism tends).

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      • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday June 20 2017, @06:34AM

        by frojack (1554) on Tuesday June 20 2017, @06:34AM (#528356) Journal

        Virtual tour of real estate probably is a market.
        Maybe grocery shopping after Amazon bolts all the doors at whole foods. And maybe you can ride along with your groceries when they start flying drones off the roof of all the whole foods stores.

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    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 19 2017, @08:34PM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday June 19 2017, @08:34PM (#528133) Journal

      It's up to filmmakers to make it worth a damn for narrative experiences that aren't games. One glaring problem is that if the camera is translating and rotating, there's a disconnect between those changes in view and your lack of movement. I guess the test for this would be to watch something like Hardcore Henry in VR and then see if you feel like shit afterwards.

      Video of real life events such as protests or security footage could benefit. Also think of videos where someone gets on a motorcycle and films using a 360 degree camera. Stuff like that can already be uploaded on YouTube right now. If important historical events were captured in 360 degrees, you could pause and look around at certain frames. Might have made the Zapruder film more compelling, eh?

      Nature docs, night sky timelapses, views from plazas or street intersections, and concerts [youtube.com] could all be interesting to see in 360 degrees. W.R.T. the night sky, although applications like Space Engine, Stellarium, Universe Sandbox, Digital Universe Atlas, etc. are more obvious targets for VR support than astronomy videos, videos of the night sky would allow you to see real world phenomena including meteors, aurora, the ISS orbiting, etc. that would otherwise have to be simulated. Although you could just go outside and lay down on your back to get a 360 degree view of the sky, that won't work if it's cloudy or there's light pollution. Not to mention the bugs.

      Imagine walking into a room full of people sitting in chairs, with a VR headset strapped to their head, each in their own little world oo-ing and ah-ing at nothing.

      Your weakest objection yet. If it's too embarrassing for the movie theater, stick it in the living room. If you can't even stand to be seen by your (hopefully existent) friends and loved ones, then you exile VR to the bed or basement.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @10:06PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @10:06PM (#528178)

      Oh just wait, it will take a while for people to create the content. It will be a different approach to entertainment, and likely one that requires some choices to be made.

      Off the top of my head I see two basic choices for movie makers:
      1) allow viewers to pause, go back, or otherwise explore the depths of your content that won't fit in one frame during a continuous timeline. Want to see every fight in the superhero movie instead of highlights for each hero? We can do that!
      2) allow viewers to change view but not timeline. That way every time they watch the movie they can explore different facets.

      You can mix/match those two choices throughout the movie

      This allows content creators to tell a much deeper story that I think would really rope people in.

  • (Score: 2) by rigrig on Monday June 19 2017, @05:24PM

    by rigrig (5129) Subscriber Badge <soylentnews@tubul.net> on Monday June 19 2017, @05:24PM (#528034) Homepage

    surprisingly, people spent 75% of their time within the front 90 degrees of a video

    Did they control for all the 360 videos where everything of interest is happening in the front 90 degrees?
    (i.e. rotate videos for all visitors by a random amount, then check if they compensate)

    Also, there seem to be quite a few "360" videos that only have 180 degrees of content...

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday June 19 2017, @05:29PM (1 child)

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Monday June 19 2017, @05:29PM (#528037) Journal

    People seem to be acting very cynical and taking the wrong lesson here. The YouTube advice doesn't seem to be "treat VR like video" or "ignore what makes VR unique" (as someone else suggested here).

    Read on to the next paragraph from TFA:

    Google therefore offers the following sage advice for those who want to set heads swiveling: “Get their attention … The more engaging the full scene is, the more likely viewers will want to explore the full 360-degree view.”

    Seems to me this boils down to a simple realization: People pay more attention to stuff that's in front of them. That's basic human nature. If you're going to be successful at building VR, you can't ignore that.

    So why aren't people looking around, aside from that fact that that's their default behavior anyway? Well, it could be unfamiliarity with new tech. In which case, you need to give people a reason to look around. But another simple reason may be that people just aren't that interested. You know how you get them interested? Show them something interesting -- WHERE THEY'RE LOOKING, i.e., in front of them. Then move focus beyond that gradually to get them to look around. Maybe place visual stimuli near that "focus area" and get them to move off to the side, drawing attention. There are lots of possibilities.

    Seems the lesson here is that you need more engagement generally, and that starts with making sure people are interested where they're by default looking to begin with. Sounds like Google's saying, "If you fix that and get people engaged, maybe they'll care enough to look around." Which seems like a reasonable argument, though perhaps not the only possible strategy.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 20 2017, @05:59AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 20 2017, @05:59AM (#528349) Journal

      Show them something interesting -- WHERE THEY'RE LOOKING, i.e., in front of them. Then move focus beyond that gradually to get them to look around. Maybe place visual stimuli near that "focus area" and get them to move off to the side, drawing attention. There are lots of possibilities.

      One of those possibilities: place a hungry tiger behind them.
      Like... for real! If they don't look behind, they don't deserve to live
      (mind you, I'm not saying that if they do look behind, they are more worthy to live).

      (grin)

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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Monday June 19 2017, @05:48PM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Monday June 19 2017, @05:48PM (#528047)

    Isnt this great news? You can just compress the shit out of everything that isn't straight forward, or whatever is considered to be in focus. Really dropping down on the amount of things that need to be rendered and by that increasing performance?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @06:54PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @06:54PM (#528083)

    Have you seen the shit on youtube? I'd say 99.999% of it is too awful to watch. Fake videos, scam videos, horrible copies of hollywood crap, incompetent instructional videos, advertising videos, etc. Only thing worse than network TV is youtube.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 20 2017, @09:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 20 2017, @09:53AM (#528395)

    I'm pretty sure I look forward about 95+% of the time without VR.

  • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Tuesday June 20 2017, @01:53PM

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Tuesday June 20 2017, @01:53PM (#528442)

    I wonder how much of this is due to conditioning, because we are most often using screens which we must face directly while holding still.

    The other more likely reason I would imagine, is that in general, looking "straight ahead" is most natural and comfortable for our necks, so most VR content, even ones that use gyroscopes to sense head position and adjust perspective accordingly, would put most content "straight ahead" for ergonomic reasons.

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