Readit NewsThey're for gaming and escape. Not for work, not for communication.
This could be a huge market, but Apple and Meta don't seem to understand that at the highest levels.
I also am not optimistic hearing the $3,000+ price tag when most consumer headsets are below $1500 and an environment with games, activities, social apps etc. has already been created for them.
- The 2020 presidential election was not sufficiently investigated despite unusually and statistically unlikely results and questionable legal/procedural changes and activities at the state and local levels in regions that benefitted the eventual winner.
- White male Republicans who advocate for stricter enforcement of immigration law and internationally accepted asylum processes, seek to reduce or prevent taxpayer-funded education/encouragement about non-generative sexual preferences and practices to prepubescent children, and who support the individual right to defend against a monopoly on violence by a potentially tyrannical government, are NOT threats to democracy nor are they extremists to be likened to domestic terrorists.
- Recognition of extremely strong correlation between prevalent cultural norms of any given socioeconomic demographic and the geographical crime/violence rates in which those same demographic groupings reside is not racism nor xenophobia when the recognition is aimed at addressing the cultural aspect (caveat: I accept that there is also strong correlation between those who believe this and those who apply this belief to everyone within said socioeconomic demographic - eg. "poor Appalachian opioid addicts are all unintelligent, violent thieves")
- The variations of global temperature and weather phenomenon have been in fluctuation, and at more extreme levels, long before human intervention
I'm sure I could think of a few more but the effort to phrase things properly is not worth it for the inevitable [dead].
I've been following some of their research with their VR/AR hardware, and it appears to me they definitely have something for the future. They're investing massive amounts of money, and they seem to be miles ahead of everyone else (well, it doesn't seem like there is anyone else). To me, they clearly do have something for the future, with what seems like a very natural progression of technology and interacting with computers, with something like the Metaverse being an eventual end goal, maxing out that technology.
Maybe Metaverse isn't what people want, but there's so much between the computers we use now and the Metaverse that they can dip their toes in, along the way.
I'll say it with naive confidence: AR/VR is the future of display technology/use.
Who are they ahead of? They have a standalone headset which has fairly limited performance, and FB Horizons which looks like something you could make in Unity in a few days. With things like VRChat, Neos, Cluster, and others available, they definitely aren't ahead and are lagging very far behind in my opinion. Their increasingly poor reputation will even limit what they can do in a VR/AR space.
Guess that’s not everyone’s experience?
I would also consider joining a company in the future that doesn't use teams as a form of communication.
You can very easily replace your real life with it outside of work and bills, and get all of your social needs from it. As someone with crippling social anxiety, it removes something that triggers my social anxiety and I'm able to easily make friends. People are more open, identity just isn't a thing because everyone is anything they want to be, people are more open to being 'close' to other people and forming relationships with them. I've been comparing it to the early internet in the 90's and 2000's, especially since the entire game outside of the base code is something like 99% community created by artists with great creativity.
I dance a lot in VR in EDM clubs which I have never done in real life. The other night I went to a real world concert and I danced for the first time in my life. I felt confident and knew other people didn't care, finally. People started talking to me, they were interested in me. I honestly didn't even know how to process it until the show was over, but it was definitely because of my gained confidence in VR.
It's the bleeding edge of the metaverse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1wUg9HCODU
Why are we going backwards again?
Android 12, windows 11, IOS at this point why do we even buy devices with this crap on them if in effect they don't belong to us anymore?
As a natural introvert, it is one of the best things to happen to me, and the most social I have ever been in my life.