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by pavlov 1342 days ago
The PC of 1981 offered so little immediate utility that the microcomputer press was desperately pushing "maybe housewives can archive their recipes" as a use case for personal computers.

Remember, it wasn't networked, and the I/O was limited to a crappy matrix printer at best. There was practically no software, and most professionals and managers didn't know how to type since that was a secretary's task.
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KidComputer 1342 days ago
Yet VR has none of those limitations and it still hasn't taken off like personal computers. Weird, it's almost like VR is just an interface and anything you can view in it you can just view on a regular screen, which most people prefer.

Also the comparison to early computers a little weird. VR isn't a platform that can scale out to to handle billions of e-commerce transactions or solve computational biology problems. Apples to oranges.

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