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Re:Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ea... by kelnos on Monday March 14, 2022 @03:55PM (#30677385)
> Games give you a completely immersed experience

I haven't tried the Quest 2 yet, so I don't know how good it is, but to me, it's not "completely immersed" until you can interface directly with my brain to feed it false visual, auditory, smell, touch, etc. signals, as well as interpret signals I make to move around, which causes me to interact with the virtual world instead of the real world.

Anything else to me just feels kinda clunky. Certainly the stuff available now is way better than stuff from 20, 10, or even 5 years ago, but it's a far cry from complete immersion.

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Re:Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ea... by GekkePrutser on Monday March 14, 2022 @05:39PM (#30678724)
It sure is clunky yes. It's certainly not totally immersed.

But it's so much more immersive than what we had before that it's still really amazing. If you had skipped computers in the 80s and 90s because they were nowhere like perfect yet, you still works have missed out on an amazing time. The same is happening now.

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