| > Pop your VR headset on at a café, I'm sure it'll work out great. Bash people with your wide arm movements at Starbucks and look like a clown. Could you be strawmanning any harder? I've been now full time remote working for 3 years and I have done exactly zero work from any kind of cafe. I have however done one day of work in a virtual desktop, but currently (as of couple years back) I didn't find it any better than just using normal desk and monitor setup. >Those meetings that could have been an email? This is complete a company issue. This VR tech is meant for actual meetings. >Instead of having a screen (or multiple screens), force people in a shitty virtual reality where you have to walk around still, You are completely misunderstanding the tech. You can literally have infinite amount of screens in a VR environment if you still want to cling to the notion of screens. This all being said. I doubt this will catch on, however the facial expression capturing tech will be nice for future gaming and chatting applications. |
Facial capture for gaming will be absolutely worthless, and so will it be for chatting. Firstly because it already exists without wearing an expensive helmet that makes you sweat and is uncomfortable, secondly because nobody wants to wear a damn helmet so that people can see you smile ingame, and thirdly because nobody wants to put 1k+ on a device whoses uses are extremely limited.