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Nobody cares about VR.
Get off my lawn! Reminds me of when no one cared about native mobile (vs the Web), or before that, no one cared about GUIs (command line is where it’s at)
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> What's App is not monetizable It is, they talked about introducing ads to the status tab before. I agree on the rest though
The second they turn that on, Signal and Telegram will get an even larger influx of users than they got last year when the FB lawyers tried to weasel in some language enabling that and some other features in the Whatsapp terms of use. I still have not agreed to the terms of use since I continue to be able to opt out and am amused by FB basically chickening out requiring their users to actually agree. The normal cours…
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next to the like buttons > click the ... > open tanscript
I wonder when google search results will start directing you to the middle of a YT video
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Not to mention libraries.
not to dispute your point, but netflix is a library
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next to the like buttons > click the ... > open tanscript
I wonder when google search results will start directing you to the middle of a YT video
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next to the like buttons > click the ... > open tanscript
I wonder when google search results will start directing you to the middle of a YT video
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Teslasuit has some of these features (temperature and touch). It’s pretty expensive, but so are trips to mountains, I guess. The key point is effectively , imo. If not completely real, there may be a line of deepdive that once you cross it, real trips will still feel “better quality”, but not as in vs “staring at the monitor in your room”. VR doesn’t have to be REAL or even resemble reality, it just has to be convinc…
I think people are just responding to how much hype there is. Yes it is cool, immersion feels fun and different. Lifting up that jar and looking at the alien in the first room in Alyx was very cool. But its just a new way of looking at pixels on a screen. You can't actually "do" anything that you can't already do now. You can pretend to fly the moon. You can simulate going on an adventure. Its all just entertainment.
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You and I don’t get to choose anything. Don’t shoot the messenger.
Actually in this hypothetical future we would. You could always not get those implants and not participate in all the advantages they bring, and in turn not have other entities get control over your eyeballs, ears etc.
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Books tap directly into the imagination in a way that films (very) rarely do. The most amazing special effects in the world can't match my imagination for fidelity and if they did, they'd still not be mine . I've noticed that the book to TV/movies I like aren't because they are good adaptations so much as they are close to what I imagined. It's rare that happens but when it does it makes the TV show a deeply enjoyabl…
Some of us don't manufacture alternate visual realities in our heads.
When you watch a movie, your eyes and ears has to collect the information, and some part of your brain has to turn that into a log of events. You have to do a lot of work to do to keep up with whats going on.
When you are reading, you don't need to do all that work, the author has already decided what is important.
I think the two mediums aren't really comparable, they both just happen to be good ways to tell stories.