Eh, we'll see. The reason Facebook is investing so much money into VR in the first place is because of how natural a progression their current behavioral manipulation machinations transfer over to VR. The upcoming headset Facebook has been teasing is slated to included eye tracking, face tracking, and probably even heart rate sensing which will give them a slew of data into their user's behavioral responses. Combine that with all the other data facebook collects folded into their big behavior manipulation platform and we're gonna have quite the boring dystopia.
Perhaps, but personally I don't see VR ever taking off in its current state outside of a few useful industrial/business uses and the like; I tried a recent headset recently (one with the fingers thingy) and it's fun, sure, but as an alternative - even a very limited one - to the real world ? they suck quickly IMO. Perhaps for video games - and I'm not even sure about that - but watching a concert or having a meeting with them ? fuck no.
Give it time, even at an estimated 5 million Facebook Quest units sold, we're still pretty early in the VR tech adoption cycle; Viable consumer VR wasn't even really a thing until about 10 years ago. As the tech improves, becomes lighter, more sensory captivating, AR tech will as well and between the two we'll end up with a considerable segment of the population spending most of their time in a curated echo chamber under control of some major corporation (probably fb/meta).
The upcoming headset Facebook has been teasing is slated to included eye tracking, face tracking, and probably even heart rate sensing which will give them a slew of data into their user’s behavioral responses. Combine that with all the other data facebook collects folded into their big behavior manipulation platform and we’re gonna have quite the boring dystopia.
Eh, we'll see. The reason Facebook is investing so much money into VR in the first place is because of how natural a progression their current behavioral manipulation machinations transfer over to VR. The upcoming headset Facebook has been teasing is slated to included eye tracking, face tracking, and probably even heart rate sensing which will give them a slew of data into their user's behavioral responses. Combine that with all the other data facebook collects folded into their big behavior manipulation platform and we're gonna have quite the boring dystopia.
Yeah but have you SEEN Chinese Social Credit?!
Perhaps, but personally I don't see VR ever taking off in its current state outside of a few useful industrial/business uses and the like; I tried a recent headset recently (one with the fingers thingy) and it's fun, sure, but as an alternative - even a very limited one - to the real world ? they suck quickly IMO. Perhaps for video games - and I'm not even sure about that - but watching a concert or having a meeting with them ? fuck no.
Give it time, even at an estimated 5 million Facebook Quest units sold, we're still pretty early in the VR tech adoption cycle; Viable consumer VR wasn't even really a thing until about 10 years ago. As the tech improves, becomes lighter, more sensory captivating, AR tech will as well and between the two we'll end up with a considerable segment of the population spending most of their time in a curated echo chamber under control of some major corporation (probably fb/meta).
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lol, yeah. That's my typical disclaimer, which one will get us first? Climate Change or Mixed Reality tech so advanced that the Matrix seems quaint?
Resource exhaustion and ecological collapse due to pollution and modern agricultural practices are also in the running.
I tend to include that all under the heading of climate change, but yeah totally.
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sometimes I think Ted was right, what the fuck