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Re:Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO by thewebcount on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:34PM (#31588444)
How's that going to work in my living room where there's an ottoman, a coffee table, the dog's running around, etc. Or do I need to build a new room just for AR/VR stuff? I mean, yeah you can do some interesting stuff like having virtual Jenga on your coffee table, or whatever, but thinking in terms of HalfLife 4, or even sitting around chatting with 3 other friends who are in different locations, it sounds like it would start to become impossible just because of the space I'd be in. (Or expensive if I have to have a new space that I keep clear all the time.)
Re:Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO by seanhunter on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:00AM (#31592241)
The level of magical thinking and SV delusion around the practical downsides of this reminds me of what Steve Jobs apparently said about the Segway "If enough people see the machine you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it. It'll just happen."[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010617162321/http://www.inside...

Re:Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO by colinmhayes on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @06:05PM (#31588751)
> Or do I need to build a new room just for AR/VR stuff?

Probably, at least until we perfect the matrix or 360 degree treadmill tech.

Re:Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO by tiborsaas on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:25AM (#31592364)
Insurance companies will love the metaverse :)
Re:Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO by elorant on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:43PM (#31588536)
You get a kind of treadmill which is stationary and you move inside it. Come on guys, stuff like that have been described in sf literature decades ago. It's not like we run out of ideas. We already have kinetic games for more than a decade now.

As for your friends, they can sit wherever the fuck they please. They're holograms, or on a more crude version just simulations from an AR/VR set.