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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:35PM (#33026783)
> centuries

Centuries? I haven't taken a close look at VR (though I'm flirting with buying a headset soon, just for kicks...) but I'd always assumed it was more like 10-25 years away.

What are the hardware breakthroughs that you think would do it?

Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by stephc_int13 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:48PM (#33026964)
Brain implants. Or very light AR glasses.
Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by magic_hamster on Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:34PM (#33027534)
Are you going to be willing to install a brain implant from Facebook? Dear God. It's like something out of a dystopian movie. No amount of money will convince me to do something like this, especially coming from Facebook, but any corporation really.

Very light AR glasses can be an interesting proposition but they will not provide the VR immersive experience.

I'm not sure what people expect from VR but it's not Ready Player One and will not be for a very long time. However, playing Half Life Alyx is quite phenomenal even today on current hardware.

Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by stephc_int13 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:01PM (#33027900)
I would bet money that Meta is going to fail spectacularly at their attempt to build the metaverse.

And it will be fun to watch from the outside.

Unfortunately, I don't expect this endeavor to give interesting fruits to humanity, but sometimes happy accidents happen.

Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by jgwil2 on Friday September 30, 2022 @12:03AM (#33030781)
Only thing I can think is that GP is making a sports reference (1 century = 100 runs in cricket) a la "home run" being used to mean a smashing success.
Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by cbtacy on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:41PM (#33026874)
True lightfield display would be a start....
Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by Morizero on Thursday September 29, 2022 @08:57PM (#33029485)
Which reminds me, whatever happened to magic leap?
Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by 314 on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:17AM (#33031592)
They burned through an ungodly amount of money. There was a headset that they released four years ago - it was a flop. Similar deal to the hololens, first generaion aimed at developers. Recently they've pivoted and there is a second generation headset announced that is aimed at business users.
Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by cbtacy on Thursday October 06, 2022 @11:52PM (#33117227)
Flailing about? And of course what they were doing was NOT true light field display.