| I don't get this type of visceral reaction personally, even though I wouldn't use this type of app, but I understand why some older people would never touch it. I like to keep up with new tech and I was looking at the viral Houseparty [1] and Airtime [1] apps the other day. While I'd never do anything like that with my friends, when I checked the reviews it was mostly 12yr kids (some say their age in the review for some reason) and I could imagine myself at a younger age loving this stuff. The kids could use it when they are stuck in their bedroom and want to to 'hang out' with friends after school. Watching Youtube videos or simple games combined with live video chat and texting. I could see a similar use case here with VR. The whole 'spectator culture' watching people playing vide games is a massive phenomenon among kids. But sitting watching a "zany" perpetually hyper guy playing a video game for hours seems foreign to most adults. The social lives of kids are already heavily intertwined with technology. They don't mind jumping into a multi-party video chat with some friends from school. Doing the same in a VR world sounds just as fun. There's also always naysayers for every tech launch on HN/internet so it's safe to take it with a grain of salt. Sometimes it's just not meant for you and that's totally fine. 1. https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/houseparty/id1065781769 2. https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/airtime-watch-videos-together/... |
Me looks at a VR world run by facebook: Screeches and sees the worst imaginable dystopian future marching towards me.