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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by charlieflowers on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:13PM (#35543165)
> People want more REALITY in their life, not less.

Agree with most of what you said. But my take is, people would LOVE virtual reality if it were done well enough. We just don't seem to have the technical capability to pull it off well enough yet. Uncanny valley and all that.

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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by jeremyjh on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:27PM (#35543389)
Yes exactly. ChatGPT is exciting because it actually works, not because it’s the first AI chat program. If Microsoft had pivoted to it even 5 years ago they’d be a laughingstock like Meta.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by MikusR on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:42PM (#35543648)
VR currently works as good as ChatGPT.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by bink on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:58PM (#35546791)
or ChatGPT works as poorly as VR.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by jeremyjh on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:06PM (#35547691)
Not for me it doesn’t. I use ChatGPT all the time in my work and it saves me a lot of time. With a couple of exceptions I haven’t found much compelling in VR and can’t stand to do it more than 60 minutes at a stretch.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by MikusR on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:42PM (#35543640)
What does uncanny valley has to do with VR?
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by detaro on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:45PM (#35543690)
What Meta has been pushing as Metaverse is pretty big on human-like avatars.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by MikusR on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:02PM (#35544025)
But what does it has to do with VR in general? You don't have to use any of Meta social apps to use VR.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by JohnFen on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:58PM (#35548205)
It have to do with VR because VR is attempting to replicate reality. If you do that almost, but not quite, perfectly then you're in the uncanny valley. It doesn't have to be about portraying people.

Current VR can't even approach realism -- which keeps it out of the uncanny valley.

However, if the technology improves to the point where the graphics approach realistic, the uncanny valley will become a real problem.

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