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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by wybiral on Monday January 07, 2019 @08:50PM (#18852334)
> Most technological breakthroughs are first perceived as toys and hobbies of the rich: personal computers, cellphones, mechanical carriages, Facebook. In this context, sour-grape reactionism is unfortunate but not surprising.

But not every technology ends up being the next personal computer, cellphone, or Facebook. Someone probably once thought that hosting sites like GeoCities were the future before blogs/Facebook made it clear that the average user doesn't want to design their own website. It took something more approachable to come along.

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Re:Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR by cannonedhamster on Friday January 11, 2019 @02:25PM (#18886083)
VR vastly overestimates the amount of space people have in their living rooms. Unless we're designing houses with rooms just for VR, I don't ever see it taking off. Maybe as a destination like a holodeck?
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