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by graeme 1252 days ago
I think VR is cool! Really enjoyed playing a zombie game when I tried it. The cricket thing sounds fun. I can readily conceive more people will use it for niche experiences and use cases will grow.

But you still didn’t address OP’s point. Immersive VR is like being out of the house. You can’t keep an eye on things.

Most people living regular lives have a limited “out of the house” time budget, and would like to spend a good chunk of it on in person experiences or errands or work.

Actually this analysis suggests work has the highest potential to bring in VR, as most people already budget 8-10 hours of “out of house” time for work, so VR isn’t competing with anything except the office environment.

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VR/AR will be absolutely essential in training, remote work.

Like the initial PC revolution, many non-enthusiasts will be introduced through corporate.

As far as carving out time, VR can easily replace TV Time, Internet Time, Remote Facetime/Phonecalls, self-improvement time.

Mixed Reality is the final platform that ends all other platforms.