I just feel like VR is never really going to be a thing most people enjoy using. People have always used tools with their hands, the smartphone is just the most advanced version yet. Wearing something over your field of vision feels unnatural and unintuitive, and I don’t see that ever changing. I already feel kinda uncomfortable even when I just put my hoodie up. What if someone comes at me from behind 🫣
But we are still at the very beginning of this technology. People will start using them at home because they are more suitable than phones for some activities, but as usage increases there will also be more research on the subject - so technology can advance and become less invasive -. Once usage increases and the tool becomes less invasive, I see very few barriers to them spreading outside.
Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. I definitely felt similarly to you for a while, but now I’m just kinda in a phase where I’m seeing the downsides too.
I worry about the mental health of a society that spends more time on a headset than face to face with other human beings. It’s already really bad just with smartphones. VR is gonna be even more problematic, people are going to literally get addicted to VR and lose track of reality and go insane. Or at least I could see that outcome as a possibility.
In my comment I wrote how I think this technology might spread, but this isn’t connected to the advantages and disadvantages I believe it has (rather to the advanced and disadvantages the public will perceive).
I’m quite worried about the mental health consequences too, but I don’t think they’ll be enough to make us stop using VR if we find it convenient. I just hope for an increase in mental health awareness, so that even if new technologies do damage people will be able to prevent and cure a part of it.
Smartphones are kinda dumb though. As smart as they are they are a tiny screen you need to hold.
Screens monitors tvs pads whatever are just glass that information is beamed onto.
Why not just use that same tech to be that same information in front of your vision. Cut out the middle man that is the phone screen. Isn’t that better ?
I’d love to have a heads up display but I don’t think it has much practical applications. Can see my heart rate my maybe my speed and my location of I need directions.
This is the same revolution that were phones. People like you said the exact same thing. Be dumb to look at your phone all day. Yet here we are.
Chicken and egg. Need the hardware to start off the software. Without useful reasons for it it will die. Price point too
There’s a big difference there. Before the smart phone we would use notepads. Writing things down on a little pad of paper is something we’ve done for 100s of years. We just swapped out the paper or booklet for a digital device.
I just feel like VR is never really going to be a thing most people enjoy using. People have always used tools with their hands, the smartphone is just the most advanced version yet. Wearing something over your field of vision feels unnatural and unintuitive, and I don’t see that ever changing. I already feel kinda uncomfortable even when I just put my hoodie up. What if someone comes at me from behind 🫣
But we are still at the very beginning of this technology. People will start using them at home because they are more suitable than phones for some activities, but as usage increases there will also be more research on the subject - so technology can advance and become less invasive -. Once usage increases and the tool becomes less invasive, I see very few barriers to them spreading outside.
Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. I definitely felt similarly to you for a while, but now I’m just kinda in a phase where I’m seeing the downsides too.
I worry about the mental health of a society that spends more time on a headset than face to face with other human beings. It’s already really bad just with smartphones. VR is gonna be even more problematic, people are going to literally get addicted to VR and lose track of reality and go insane. Or at least I could see that outcome as a possibility.
Sorry for the late reply.
In my comment I wrote how I think this technology might spread, but this isn’t connected to the advantages and disadvantages I believe it has (rather to the advanced and disadvantages the public will perceive).
I’m quite worried about the mental health consequences too, but I don’t think they’ll be enough to make us stop using VR if we find it convenient. I just hope for an increase in mental health awareness, so that even if new technologies do damage people will be able to prevent and cure a part of it.
Smartphones are kinda dumb though. As smart as they are they are a tiny screen you need to hold.
Screens monitors tvs pads whatever are just glass that information is beamed onto.
Why not just use that same tech to be that same information in front of your vision. Cut out the middle man that is the phone screen. Isn’t that better ?
I’d love to have a heads up display but I don’t think it has much practical applications. Can see my heart rate my maybe my speed and my location of I need directions.
This is the same revolution that were phones. People like you said the exact same thing. Be dumb to look at your phone all day. Yet here we are.
Chicken and egg. Need the hardware to start off the software. Without useful reasons for it it will die. Price point too
There’s a big difference there. Before the smart phone we would use notepads. Writing things down on a little pad of paper is something we’ve done for 100s of years. We just swapped out the paper or booklet for a digital device.