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by paxys 1326 days ago
In terms of pure technology there has been a crazy amount of incremental progress in the area. We have gone from the first kickstarter for Oculus (when VR was just a sci-fi dream) to the release of Quest Pro and games like Half-Life: Alyx in under a decade.

Of course shareholders really want to count actual monetary returns as progress, and it's the job of the CEO to decide whether prioritizing short term gains is actually in the best interests of the company or not.
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JetSpiegel 1325 days ago
> the first kickstarter for Oculus (when VR was just a sci-fi dream)

What? Virtual Boy was released almost 30 years ago, that's a consumer product that sold in the same ballpark as the Oculus Rift.

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JoeJonathan 1326 days ago
The thing is, speaking as a total non expert here, people have been taking about VR since the 90s, and it’s always kind of sucked. It’ll get much better over the next decade, of course. But even then, how many people want to sensorially sever themselves from the outside world? Lots of people who Meta thinks might use VR for work have, you know, other human bodies to take care of.
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andybak 1326 days ago
> and it’s always kind of sucked.

Some of us quite like it.

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