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Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust

posted by martyb on Wednesday January 09 2019, @04:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the need-moah-faster-computes dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

CNet:

it's 2019. I'm at CES, and VR is an idea gathering dust for all the wrong reasons, lost in a sea of strange peripherals and pipe dreams. Self-contained VR devices, like Oculus Quest and the newly announced HTC Vive Cosmos, are en route, but it feels too little, too late. VR has lost the attention of mainstream audiences.

In 2019, VR is a sideshow in a theme park, a marketing stunt, a slide in a PR powerpoint presentation, a niche hobby for people locked in rooms with a ton of money to spend, and -- worse -- no one seems to know what direction we're headed in, or even what virtual reality should be.

TFA cites motion sickness as a continuing issue, one of the same reasons VR didn't catch on 20 years ago. What will it take for VR to finally realize the potential everyone keeps believing it has?

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  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday January 09 2019, @03:35PM (2 children)

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Wednesday January 09 2019, @03:35PM (#784141)

    Since the 50's video calls were a promise of how all communication would be in the future.

    Well the future arrived like 10 years ago; and it turns out that very few people desire this. In fact, very few people desire voice calls anymore. The only person I know that calls instead of texting first is my dad, and that is because he is a truck driver and usually calls while driving.

    It is amusing to look back at what people in the 1990s though life would be like in the 2010s.

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  • (Score: 2) by JustNiz on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:35PM

    by JustNiz (1573) on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:35PM (#784193)

    Texting and voice both have their places.
    Sure texting gives you a useful record, but you can get far more information from a voice call than a text. Voice tone, inflection etc communicate far more than just the words themselves do.

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday January 09 2019, @06:11PM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday January 09 2019, @06:11PM (#784210) Journal

    My parents do video calls quite a bit with my brother who is overseas. Perhaps, it's not very useful for day-to-day communication with people you normally see, but it sure is nice to see someone you wouldn't otherwise.

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