| I'm reading HN because of the top 5%ile original thought leaders and ideas that I still get out from them. The FB discussion isn't about anti-capitalism. It is the general theme of HN. Like most HNers you are lacking imagination in what VR will do. Just like everyone who poo-poo'ed what is possible from Computers, Internet, Mobile Phones. Yeah before iPhones, we already played with Palm Pilots and Microsoft CE hand held devices. End users are all of humanity (minus some stubborn Luddites. But you never invest / build strategy around luddites) If VR helps you master skills better, help firms to be more productive, that in itself is a good enough use case for everyone to use VR The fact that VR systems can provide experiences closer to reality means the applications are boundless. |
You seem to make a lot of these sweeping statements. They're full of stupid assumptions and generalities. It's a boring shtick and I'm not really seeing you back it up with your dizzying intellect.
Besides being casually insulting to a huge group of people you don't know, it's also a profoundly stupid assertion.
There's no subset of people on HN that at any point poo-pooed computers, the Internet, or mobile phones. A significant population here have been involved in building those things. You're trying to assert that because someone isn't fawning over wide eyed promises of some technology they're some sort of backwards Luddite.
History is littered with technologies that did not revolutionize the world. There's little guarantee VR isn't going to end up in that heap. It's had a lot of promise for decades. It's got fundamental technological, ergonomic, and physiological problems to overcome before it's going to be attractive to anyone but enthusiasts. Even then there's no guarantee that it will take off in a significant way. Even if VR takes off there's no guarantee and little indication that Facebook's vision of VR will take off.