The thing that irks me is that literally anyone who's using their brain to research the "VR goggles" market for like a day could have told you this.
It has "vanity project" written all over it.
The thing that irks me is that literally anyone who's using their brain to research the "VR goggles" market for like a day could have told you this.
It has "vanity project" written all over it.
tl;dr (too long, didn't research):
The "VR goggles" market is very small and very specialized because only a very tiny amount of users are willing to accept the downsides of computers strapped to your face.
The downsides--which are inherent and can't be innovated away--are discomfort due to nausea and pressure on the face, eye strain and most of all looking like an idiot.
@thomasfuchs the tech problems of these things “could” be innovated away, but the tech is (as always) years away (not holding my breath - the display tech alone is going to require some revolutionary change). The he human problems (eye strain, nausea) probably require some similar level discovery into how to solve dynamically for organic system differences. Looking like an idiot? That just doesn’t go away 🤣
@thomasfuchs It's Tim Cook's Newton.
Maybe in 10 year the tech will be here to make it an affordable kick-ass product but right now it's too big, heavy, janky and expensive. But someone is too eager to seem revolutionary before it's ready.
@kalleboo it won’t be there in ten years, you still need to fully cover eyes to make screens work and it will still make people nauseous ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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