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Re:WebVR Experiments by byandyphillips on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:31PM (#14099800)
I'm excited for the day that I can put on VR through my phone or computer and shop Amazon with hand gestures and voice. Or look through all the pictures and videos I have stored and fly through memories.

I know we're still a far way away, but this is definitely a step in the right direction - great job Google!

Re:WebVR Experiments by Klathmon on Thursday April 13, 2017 @08:26AM (#14106189)
So this prompted me to pickup my daydream that I got for free with my phone again after a few months, and I looked back through some old "photosphere" photos I made.

It's one thing to look at old pictures, it's another to be able to stand in your old house the day after you moved in, to be able to go back to the beach where you went on vacation a few years ago, to be able to stand outside your old house in the woods in the dead middle of fall.

It instantly brought me back to those times in a way that normal photos or videos ever could, and when I made those photospheres I had no idea that I would be able to one day view them in a VR headset!

Re:WebVR Experiments by byandyphillips on Thursday April 13, 2017 @04:53PM (#14110833)
thanks for painting that scenario - that would be really cool.
Re:WebVR Experiments by socmag on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:48PM (#14099962)
/s? FTFY

Maybe you weren't joking. That's the even more scary thing.

Personally I like to hop on my bicycle and meet real people in the real world.

I don't even know what to think about VR at this point. :/

Re:WebVR Experiments by prophesi on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:01PM (#14100116)
Now this is the mindset that I don't understand. Why can't you like both VR and real life? People made this same complaint for computers, the internet, gaming, and so on. But all of these technologies can augment your socialization.
Re:WebVR Experiments by praneshp on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:52PM (#14100002)
You like meeting real people, they like VR. What's so difficult to understand?