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   mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 01:13:56 JST mekka okereke :verified:

   My hot take on the Vision Pro is the same as my hot take on every AR/VR/Mixed Reality headset produced in the past *checks notes* 20 years: "If most women can't use your product for 4 hours straight without throwing up, don't try to tell me that it's the future of anything." I said what I said.

   Women can use a smartphone indefinitely without nausea. They can use a laptop indefinitely. A gaming console and TV indefinitely. But XR headsets cause motion sickness in most women in under an hour. 🤷🏿♂️

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     Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 01:16:06 JST Clive Thompson

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     @mekkaokereke

     Yep yep

     I actually think the whole “quick hit whoa check it out” experience is really *the* big allure with VR — it’s only the tech obsession with Snow Crash and/or VCs’ desperation to find a new green-field to dominate that keeps them pushing “we’re all gonna wear goggles for 8 hours”

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 01:16:07 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     I'm rooting for anyone that solves this! Even Meta!

     I said fair play to Meta for betting the whole farm on being close to solving the women XR nausea problem. Because there's no way it makes sense to do that, unless they're very close to solving it. Right? Right? Why is no one answering me?🙂

     A little more awareness of product inclusion can save folks a lot of time and money.

     That's not saying XR is useless! Lots of fun can be had 20 minutes at a time before nausea kicks in! Eg rollercoasters!

     Thomas 🔭🕹️ repeated this.
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     Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 01:16:52 JST Clive Thompson

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     @mekkaokereke

     I actually think someone should design a headset that’s as light as possible and doesn’t strap on — the point is to hold it up, check out something rad, then excitedly it to your friend nearby to see … so you can both marvel at it

     F2F social VR!

     That’s exactly the dynamic of the original VR — stereoscopes

     You invited a friend over and handed the viewer back and forth

     I learned a ton about em while writing this a few years ago: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/sterographs-original-virtual-reality-180964771/