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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (16 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This is just a price to function issue.

If the price was 0 everyone would have one.

But the cost of it is way too high for what it is. Price and weight etc will come down. Uses will increase.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Have one != Use one. I own two and stopped using them ages ago. All of them are too clunky and I realized I'm generally too lazy to want to interact with stuff in VR vs my more comfortable media consumption on a TV and a couch.

Maybe if they were super lightweight and I could legitimately do real exercise with them they'd be useful, but as is they're too hot, too uncomfortable and too limited.

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