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I agree, personally I think VR has interesting applications in gaming and other areas that we haven't seen yet. But you're never going to get my mom to spend money on VR.

Yep. But the same can be said for a lot of tech that eventually trickles down to the mainstream. Video teleconferencing was once the domain of enterprise and higher education but now your mom does video calls on Facebook or Hangouts or Skype when she wants to see the grandkids (maybe not your mom but lots of moms) I actually think VR telepresence is a lot more intriguing to me than just playing cooler looking video g…

Totally. Maybe it's the Canadian in me, but put a fancy camera above the goalie net and I will pay to be transported there during a game.

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Profit and PR. When people think about buying a phone, it's always between an iPhone and something else. Something else is the entire rest of the world, iPhone being the reference for the consumer.

> When people think about buying a phone, it's always between an iPhone and something else. Not really. When my dad wanted to buy a phone, it was either a Samsung or something else. iPhone never entered the conversation. When my mom wanted to buy a phone, she just got the same thing as my dad so they could help each other. Same thing with my sister and her husband. My wife used a Samsung Galaxy S3 and then an S5 for…

I'm guessing you are in the US where people are a bit more exposed to other phones marketting. In Europe, in still not much the case. Although I'm happy finally some brands are breaking this silly iPhone cult.
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