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What do you think about that most big VR technology is owned by big companies like Meta and Tik Tok? (feddit.de)

submitted 8 months ago by lesnout27@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I mean yeah it's obvious that it's an oportunity for making money on a new marked and so on, but, even if it's a bit silly, dreaming of VR technology like in Ready Player One(minus the distopian world) for real life it feels like the bad guys already won, when we will have the technology. Like the omni One is just about to be launched for the market and it's sold in a bundle with the pico 4, which is owned by Tik Tok. Do you get what is grinding my gears about that?

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

Like a lot of hyped things, people still can't actually functionally figure out good VR/AR applications that people would willingly strap a hot, heavy headset to their face for long periods. Nobody has time for that, most people are social and want to actually be around other people and not behind headsets. The terminally online and introverted are in the minority in humanity.

People who drive around wearing them in their Cybertrucks are a special subset of stupid. They obviously have not figured out anything helpful to do with them, either. This is why they are doing dangerous stunts instead of anything useful.

Also Valve is still a pretty big name in VR and I wouldn't ignore the work they have done and seem to be continuing to do based on the Valve Index and rumors swirling about an Index 2 in the works. Valve is probably one of the few major players who take some amount of openness to their approach.