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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by zapzupnz on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:38PM (#18850993)
Even my grandparents can have a chat over the top of the boring part of a programme or eat their dinner whilst watching the news.

Nothing sounds more tedious than having a conversation with somebody whose attention is being drawn by something that only one of us can see.

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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by dhh2106 on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:44PM (#18851034)
Couldn't the whole family enter the same VR environment? Why limit it to just yourself?

Then you'd be free to chat over the top of the boring bits...

I agree that replicating the full social context of TV will be difficult

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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by barbecue_sauce on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:53PM (#18851108)
Because they could just share a screen in real reality?
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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by TeMPOraL on Monday January 07, 2019 @07:19PM (#18851726)
Iff they're in the same place.

Try that with relatives living in three different places across the country.

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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by zapzupnz on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:43PM (#18851497)
Indeed. Much less hassle, much less expense, many fewer tradeoffs, and much more social.
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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by kruczek on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @09:03AM (#18855532)
> somebody whose attention is being drawn by something that only one of us can see.

Typically whatever is seen in VR is repliacted on the monitor, so it's not true that only one person in the room can see what's going on in VR.

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