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Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by tsimionescu on Thursday October 28, 2021 @03:37PM (#29030690)
Yes, AR has some potential as an industrial or otherwise specialized technology. It won't be revolutionary or change the world in any way, but it will probably improve several kinds of processes, a background tech.

VR is much more likely to either become the new TV or to die an obscure death, like 3D movies.

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Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by kazen44 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @03:43PM (#29030792)
VR becoming the new TV is highly unlikely because many people multitask while watching TV. this is very difficult to do with VR.
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Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by tsimionescu on Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:39PM (#29031617)
I was thinking more of TV in the way it captured audiences in the 50s, 60s, 70s. You're probably right though that AR has a bigger chance of capturing something like the way TV is interacted with today (a background activity).
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Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by pintxo on Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:17PM (#29031335)
You could multitask in VR, without even anyone noticing?
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Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by tsimionescu on Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:34PM (#29031550)
How can you wash dishes while your entire view field is covered by some movie?
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Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by pintxo on Friday October 29, 2021 @03:57AM (#29036296)
I was more thinking about the "second screen" multitasking that's quite common. With VR, the second screen is like build-in.
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Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by pb060 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:46PM (#29031728)
3D movies will come back and die again. And again, forever
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