![]() The sci-fi stories were wrong.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. This is a niche, and will remain that way. But some are tanking their entire companies in pursuit of this (Meta) or spending seven years building a $3,500 piece of Black Mirror tech with few real-world applications (Apple). Some are smartly getting out and focusing on more plausible things (Microsoft), some are hedging their bets a bit (Sony). ![]() It’s often a Torment Nexus that tech companies now believe they have to build for some reason. Not to mention the overarching fact that most of these stories paint this tech as dystopian, not consequence-free fun. Just because you see some sort of advanced tech in fiction does not mean it will be received with open arms in the real world. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve seen this with people who buy VR sets, myself included. Even for those tempted to buy this tech, the continued usage rate compared to, say, a phone, a computer, a PlayStation 5 is drastically lower, as people are wowed for a little while and then they put it down and rarely use it again. This tech is ignoring the reality that despite the fact that actors and fictional book characters get immersed in VR through headsets and haptics, very few people in reality actually want to do that with any consistency. But even in the privacy of your own home, please explain to me what is better about doing work in floating windows with pinch gestures instead of using a PC, watching a movie on a hovering screen instead of a TV, answering a FaceTime call by putting a headset on and projecting some weird, creepy avatar version of yourself to whoever you’re talking to. Google Glass and Snapchat Spectacles are about as small as you’re going to make that sort of tech in glasses form. It doesn’t matter how small the thing is. (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images) Getty Images ![]() Premadasa Stadium on Decemin Colombo, Sri Lanka. It also did not require you to wear anything on your face.ĬOLOMBO, SRI LANKA - DECEMBER 06: England captain Alastair Cook wears pair of Google Glass glasses. The biggest AR success of the last decade is probably Pokemon GO, which allowed Jigglypuff to sit on your lap in augmented reality. We are in year 10 of any serious VR entry (Oculus), and it remains a tiny fraction of the overall tech and video game market. I keep hearing that mass VR or AR adoption is just five to 10 years away. That has not happened, and will not happen any time remotely soon. These companies have watched so many sci-fi movies and read so many sci-fi books that they genuinely believe this is something the vast majority of the public is dying to own and integrate into their lives. Most VR tech is also impressive in what it actually is able to accomplish.īut cool tech does not mean it’s something that people are going to want to use regularly. The core issue is simple: most people do not want to wear tech things on their face.Įarly reports from people who actually have used the Vision Pro say it’s very impressive, the image quality is crisp and the gesture controls work.
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