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Re:Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6 by enave on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:12PM (#10841140)
> if you're sitting on the train, or waiting in the Doctor's office, would you rather wait in VR

Other than the added privacy, I'm having trouble imagining the advantages of that. I'm reading my facebook feed, but now nobody else can see it, oh boy!

But see, I already don't care if people see. So that doesn't help me. Being immersed might actually hurt me though. Honestly, the idea of being on a train and having no idea what's going on around me is kind of terrifying.

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Re:Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6 by erikpukinskis on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @09:52PM (#10848120)
The major benefit to me would be being able to look up from my coding to see, say, a beautiful professionally captured sunset over Half Dome instead of glancing over at a horrible painting someone bought from Bed Bath & Beyond.
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