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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by gamma-male on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:32PM (#18851418)
Selfies were not a thint 10 years ago. As much as VR was not a thing.
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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by lhorie on Monday January 07, 2019 @07:07PM (#18851657)
Actually they were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie#cite_note-15

And that's beside the point anyways. Selfies exploded after digital photography became mainstream since one no longer needed to buy film. You could say that selfies happened because a physical burden was taken out of the picture.

In contrast, you could say VR is a type of technology that _adds_ physical burden: today I can walk down to T-mobile, buy a new phone and get a free TV delivered to my house that I can then use to watch Peppa Pig w/ my kids. VR can do that too for, what, $1600 for a family of 4? Except I can't actually see my kids laughing with the thing stuck on my face and half of the devices have a high likelihood of breaking in 2 weeks in the hands of toddlers anyways.

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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by plussed_reader on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:54PM (#18851570)
Check out this photograph taken by the photographer that totally didn't occur more than 10 years ago.

https://imgur.com/gallery/boUed

Totally not a thint.

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