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Honestly it annoys me that someone would throw out a specific number like that for something they have literally no possible basis for.
Without knowing where this number came from, I could imagine that his reasoning is that there's 4 main theories that are well-reasoned and he estimates they are all as equally likely.
Oh, another philosopher discovers VR. I asked the people who moderate r/metaverse to create a tag, "MYFIRSTMETAVERSEARTICLE", for this sort of thing, and they did. I've read about a hundred such articles in the last three months. They're rather similar. For a view from the other direction, "How to be a God", by Battle. This is a game dev who became an academic and spent too much time thinking about philosophy. If you…
> Games, like most forms of entertainment, must be interesting One of the challenges VR has at the moment is that games are a bit of a dead end. There are some specific exceptions, but the key is that by and large, VR is more limiting as an environment for gameplay not less constrained as people naively assume. So if you are trying to make some interesting and challenging game play mechanisms, you have all the challe…
As for low res screens, looking at tech history it’s only a matter of time before it gets “faster, better, and cheaper”.
A little off the deep end when he gets to the philosophical part (which I understand is what the bulk of the book it is excerpted from is focused on). It's quite weird at the moment how we have a mix of people with completely discordant views about VR: still lots of people viewing it as a failed experiment from 10 years ago, written it off as having no interest and no future ("I have a VR headset; I got bored with it…
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Do you really have an Index? The reason I ask is because I highly disagree with your statement about games being “largely stationary with little rotation at all”. It’s the exact opposite, which is why having a wire is so annoying. VR is a huge paradigm shift. It’s just still in its infancy. Similar to the internet in the mid 1990s.
Like what games?
- Alyx
- Boneworks
- Blades & Sorcery / GORN
- Skyrim / Fallout 4 VR
- Onward, Zero Caliber, Population One, Contractors
- Racket NX
- Minecraft
- Lone Echo
- holopoint
There's really too many games to name, and I can name more. A huge pain point for me prior to getting the Quest 2 was tangled wires from too much turning.
The only games where there's no turning involved are fitness apps like Fit XR and ping pong. Even Beatsaber and SuperNatural have 360 degree levels. Your comment makes me wonder if you've ever used your Index, or if you even own a VR headset because it sounds bizarre.
Ok, but one cannot do science in virtual reality. Is that not a necessity of "genuine" reality?
(Certainly some science can be done entirely in a virtual world, but I would say definitionally not all of science.)
It's clear that what he seems to be saying is "there is no reason VR won't be an acceptable place to live". Which is fair enough, but that seems like a much weaker claim than that VR could be on par with "genuine reality" as a blanket statement.
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Your comment(s) really nails my reservations about VR with my Oculus. After the Wow! factor of a sense immersion, you're in kind of a dead zone trying to think of something interesting to do just like in real life. You went from your real living room to your virtual living room. Big deal. You could play a game in either, but the screen is going to be much better back in your real living room. You don't want to watch…
The Quest 2 largely eliminated the screen door effect. I think what you’re seeing in Netflix is that the stream is only 480P because Netflix refuses to update their app. The big issue is that VR is meant to be social. I find multiplayer VR a lot more enjoyable than single player VR or multiplayer on other video game platforms.
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The Quest 2 largely eliminated the screen door effect. I think what you’re seeing in Netflix is that the stream is only 480P because Netflix refuses to update their app. The big issue is that VR is meant to be social. I find multiplayer VR a lot more enjoyable than single player VR or multiplayer on other video game platforms.
I'll give multiplayer VR a try. Maybe virtually doing fun activities with others is the secret sauce.
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The Quest 2 largely eliminated the screen door effect. I think what you’re seeing in Netflix is that the stream is only 480P because Netflix refuses to update their app. The big issue is that VR is meant to be social. I find multiplayer VR a lot more enjoyable than single player VR or multiplayer on other video game platforms.
I'll give multiplayer VR a try. Maybe virtually doing fun activities with others is the secret sauce.
Oh, another philosopher discovers VR. I asked the people who moderate r/metaverse to create a tag, "MYFIRSTMETAVERSEARTICLE", for this sort of thing, and they did. I've read about a hundred such articles in the last three months. They're rather similar. For a view from the other direction, "How to be a God", by Battle. This is a game dev who became an academic and spent too much time thinking about philosophy. If you…
Link for Richard A Bartle's “How to Be a God”: https://mud.co.uk/richard/How%20to%20Be%20a%20God.pdf
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I'll give multiplayer VR a try. Maybe virtually doing fun activities with others is the secret sauce.
It’s surreal being able to virtually play ping pong or racket ball with a friend or family member who you’re limited to seeing either due to distance or lifestyle ie new parents. Board games are nice too.