I hate to be that person but I must point out that there are studies that show that children less than 10 years old using VR can have impaired head-trunk coordination. See this study for more info: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-96866-8
Thanks for the link, I think modern VR's paint is still fresh in everyone's mind (well... mine at least) and you brought a scientific article. I'm now wondering if the effects could be made beneficial for physical therapy.
Re:We need to reclaim our attention
by zippystrider on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:16AM
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If you install and adblocking app on the iPad, your son can see fewer ads (e.g. AdGuard, AdBlock) on these games. Alternatively, you could set up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi to block ads across the network.
This isn't something you need to explain to people here. It's like responding to someone's comment about unpleasant weather by suggesting that they could wear different clothes.
The reason that people here know about this stuff is that this place is full of people sharing helpful tidbits like this.
That kid will go places if he can reason like that at that age. Wow.
Re:We need to reclaim our attention
by daniel-cussen on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:19AM
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Funny in Mario Kart 64 there's billboards so the roads look like roads, for realism. They are ads that say "Yoshi" and such. They are just not ads.
I personally think there have always been distractions, maybe what’s different now is how some people get positive validation from their social media interactions, certainly an author would. A lot of people don’t though.