re: Things are about to get really weird

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So those of us who refuse to participate in the VR headset world will have a distinct advantage in the real world over those who do… works for me.

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You speak as if these are mutually exclusive. The military has been using VR for training for years. What the hell do you think a flight simulator does? There's all sorts of job training that can be done on VR platforms.

Jayden Daniels even used VR to help him adjust to other stadium environments and we saw the results.


And if you've seen some newer VR applications you can see it interacts with the real world going by "augmented reality" which is basically stuff that can be seen in a real world environment. You can still see and talk to people.


I get the concerns about it negatively altering socializing, but let's not act like this is the first technology to change relationship dynamics.


Look at the telephone and/or telegraph. Used to have to send a piece of paper, taking weeks/months, or you would have to travel to the person and tell them yourselves.

Going from snail mail to telephone/telegram was a far bigger leap than anything VR will do.

We already have instant video calls and such.