Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR
by coldtea on Monday January 07, 2019 @07:26PM
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>But what you described doesn’t augment what I was doing: it lowers the local interactions, eg by removing subtle visual cues for interactions between people, while not offering something I see as better.
Which is great for introverted people, people who are bored with their spouses/s.os, and people who don't care for "subtle visual cues for interactions between people" compared to the possibility to experience an alternate reality.
It's as if some people can't understand why others would rather escape in an alternate reality than have "quality time"...
>I’d rather interact with the people next to me than fake touch things while adjacent to other people. Further, if I want to fake touch things with other people — why would I do it with us both wearing immersive displays instead of AR and a shared projection we can collaboratively touch?
Because that way you don't immerse yourselves into another world, just project stuff into your living room.
>They’re not really equivalent activities, so I’m confused why they’re compared.
They don't have to be "really equivalent" for one to eat in (or overtake) the other, it's enough that they compete for people's spare entertainment time in the house. Nothing before TV was "really equivalent" to TV, and yet it replaced what people did before in their living rooms by a large margin.
Which is great for introverted people, people who are bored with their spouses/s.os, and people who don't care for "subtle visual cues for interactions between people" compared to the possibility to experience an alternate reality.
It's as if some people can't understand why others would rather escape in an alternate reality than have "quality time"...
>I’d rather interact with the people next to me than fake touch things while adjacent to other people. Further, if I want to fake touch things with other people — why would I do it with us both wearing immersive displays instead of AR and a shared projection we can collaboratively touch?
Because that way you don't immerse yourselves into another world, just project stuff into your living room.
>They’re not really equivalent activities, so I’m confused why they’re compared.
They don't have to be "really equivalent" for one to eat in (or overtake) the other, it's enough that they compete for people's spare entertainment time in the house. Nothing before TV was "really equivalent" to TV, and yet it replaced what people did before in their living rooms by a large margin.