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I’ve frequently compared modern VR headsets with cell phones of the 1980s. Big, bulky pieces of metal and glass that will one day look comical. Meanwhile this guy invents VR of the 1960s!
it's like cellphones. Took decades until the flip phone and then iPhone. But I think it's still too early to say VR is mainstream. It is still a niche.
I’ve frequently compared modern VR headsets with cell phones of the 1980s. Big, bulky pieces of metal and glass that will one day look comical. Meanwhile this guy invents VR of the 1960s!
Big and bulky wasn't really the problem, price was. Size/weight isn't an issue with a car-based phone, the fact that the phone was prices as much as a car is.
I’ve frequently compared modern VR headsets with cell phones of the 1980s. Big, bulky pieces of metal and glass that will one day look comical. Meanwhile this guy invents VR of the 1960s!
These had nothing to do with VR. It was only allegedly able to be used for showing steroscopic video, like a stereoscope. It was not capable of showing a virtual reality to the user where they were present in it. It's hard to find any actual information about this device as the articles that refer to this don't cite their sources and probably just copied the information off of each other. There is no evidence that th…
it's like cellphones. Took decades until the flip phone and then iPhone. But I think it's still too early to say VR is mainstream. It is still a niche.
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Big and bulky wasn't really the problem, price was. Size/weight isn't an issue with a car-based phone, the fact that the phone was prices as much as a car is.
Size/weight wasn't an issue as long as you were basically talking about a car-phone which was a valid but specific use-case. (Back in the day, my senior manager would occasionally give me rides from my car dealer and he'd put me on the phone with various senior sales people if there was something he wanted me to have a conversation with.) But you're right that the phone plans were also out of reach for all but execs…