• M500@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Companies have been pushing VR so long now. I’ll say that I think the tech is cool and the idea is cool, but I will literally never use them.

    I can’t wear them while working as I am in meetings 99% of the time.

    I would not wear them in my free time, as I do not want to disassociate from my wife and cats.

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      5 months ago

      I love VR. So I use it for gaming maybe once a week, for 1-2 hours, usually as an activity with my SO so we can switch who’s playing each “round” depending on the game. That’s the maximum I find fun instead of tiring. I can’t see using it for long periods or for work, that sounds like a nightmare.

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      5 months ago

      It’s absolutely phenomenal for gaming or vr “experiences” (basically movies made specifically for vr). But the corpos are really hellbent on making everyone use it for meetings for some fucking reason. Which is truly the lamest, most unnecessary use of this tech.

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      5 months ago

      I have found my headset useful for work, when working from home and I don’t do camera on meetings anyway.

      At home it’s pretty nice, and since my ears are open I can actually talk, so my wife actually prefers it over me wearing headphones. But all things in moderation, I wouldn’t wear it constantly.

      Despite being a huge fan of the concept, I still couldn’t go for Apple’s headset, it’s heavy, it’s expensive, and lack of controllers are all deal breakers. The Quest 3 is lighter, has good controllers, and is more affordable. It may not have the displays as nice as Vision, but that doesn’t make up for the rest of the stuff.

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      5 months ago

      Aren’t the meetings pushed as one of the basic function of these? But I guess it only makes sense if most of the participants use them and software has the support.

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        5 months ago

        If most people have them? Ok, I’ll tell all my clients to get a pair 😂

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      5 months ago

      I would only use VR in racing, flight sim, or space sim games. probably once a couple of months after the initial excitement.

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        5 months ago

        That’s a good point. I’d have loved this for elite dangerous.

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      5 months ago

      The current iterations have far more potential than the past.

      But the hardware is stil too power inefficiënt and the display pixel density is expensive to produce.