[chipsambos]

> Btw, anyone who lets FB that close to their eyeballs is a stone cold moron at this point. They couldn’t be trusted to run an online photo album, giving them the ability to actually control your sense of reality is nightmarishly awful.

This is a bizarre couple of sentences. I don't think you understand the technology _at all_.

Firstly, it doesn't really matter how close the screen is to your eyes. Try moving your phone closer to your face or do you trust the app that you're about to let your eyes get closer to?

Secondly, it doesn't have the ability to control your sense of reality. At least, not any more than seeing a movie in a cinema does.

The thing is, I actually agree with your second sentence but only in the context of their social media platforms i.e. silently building echo chambers around users, experiments with shaping of user's emotional state and political opinions, etc.

[goatinaboat]

This is a bizarre couple of sentences. I don't think you understand the technology _at all_.

I'm taking the "close to your eyeballs" as a metaphor, but with AR you literally are trusting Facebook to mediate between you and the world. The ads you see, or don't see, on every flat surface, potentially. And that's just the start.

[hyko]

it doesn't really matter how close the screen is to your eyes

Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest there is a continuous relationship between trust and distance from the eyeballs :) The promise of AR and VR is that there is a quantum leap when your entire field of vision (or a very large fraction of it) is enveloped by the display though.

it doesn't have the ability to control your sense of reality

That's the entire premise of the products – the "R" in AR and VR is about inserting a shim between you and reality. That requires a level of trust I wouldn't be fully comfortable giving to myself, let alone other people, and never FB.