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Re:The Metaverse Is Bullshit by iamstupidsimple on Sunday October 31, 2021 @05:01PM (#29060387)
Motion sickness and tracking are solved problems. The biggest barrier is content (value prop right now is still not huge) and hardware comfort.
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Re:The Metaverse Is Bullshit by jay_kyburz on Sunday October 31, 2021 @05:21PM (#29060566)
I'll believe it when I see it.

People get motion sick in a car or on a boat. Its not a software problem.

If your are attempting to build your VR experiences without moving the camera through the world then you'll be extremely hamstrung.

I really enjoyed Alyx, but building a simulation of this world that you can't actually walk around is just weird.

VR "looks" cool, but you can't do anything in it that you can't do just as easily using a traditional screen.

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Re:The Metaverse Is Bullshit by mechanical_bear on Monday November 01, 2021 @02:19AM (#29063553)
Motion sickness is not a solved problem. My wife and I both tried fairly recent headsets, both terribly motion sick.
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Re:The Metaverse Is Bullshit by charcircuit on Monday November 01, 2021 @08:38AM (#29065932)
It's not solved in consumer headsets, but the technology does exist.
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