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Re:Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (2015) by ianbutler on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:52PM (#33541600)
The tech is super early stage, having worked in VR for 6 hours a day for a month I can tell you it's very barebones. This tech is nascent, hell the oculus quest only came out in 2019.
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Re:Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (2015) by asadotzler on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:16AM (#33544042)
With reference to the 90s VR boom, the grandparent was calling out this very comment as demonstrably false, well before you had even posted it. What magic is that?!

For sale to consumer VR headsets have been available commercially for about 35 years. Is it really reasonable to call a consumer tech product category that's been around for 35 years "early" or "nascent"? Look at something like the EyePhone (yes, that was its name). How is that not the very same product category as a modern VR HMD? Of course a modern HMD is better, but not fundamentally a new category of device. This shit is ancient by tech standards. It's had almost 4 decades to evolve since its consumer debut.

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Re:Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (2015) by ianbutler on Thursday November 10, 2022 @07:57AM (#33545770)
I mean we had smartphones in the late 90's and early 2000's and they didn't take off until 2010 so yes. That's where I'd put this, now we're waiting for VR's iPhone moment.
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