[throwup238]

> a family that stays together naturally wants to share content with each other.

“Content” is the worst euphemism I’ve ever heard. You have been fully exploited.

Real families want to share quality family time in the real world, not “content”

[spike021]

> Real families want to share quality family time in the real world, not “content”

You've never gone on a nice trip and then when back home with relatives streamed photos/video of that trip to a TV to share?

[JohnFen]

I've never done this, nor has any of my friends or family. Not attaching any sort of value judgement to this one way or another, but just saying that it isn't a universally common sort of activity.

[newaccount74]

Showing photos and videos to friends and family is a pretty common thing to do?

In the 90ies most people just passed prints around, or if it was pictures of a special occasion people would pass a photo album around. The more elaborate version would be inviting people to look at slides on a projector.

Nowadays most people show photos and videos on their mobile phone, and if you are fancy you put them on a TV with Airplay or Chromecast (or whatever the Android version is called).

[JohnFen]

It appears to me that this is a culturally dependent sort of thing, which is why I said it isn't "universally common" rather than it isn't common.

For instance, I'm a graybeard and in my entire life, I've only seen people do that a couple of times. And even then, the people being shown the media were putting up with it out of politeness. What people in my part of the US tend to do is tell the stories of the trip rather than show pictures. People here usually don't want to see pictures or video, they want to hear the stories.

[samplatt]

Okay: "naturally wants to share experiences with each other." Or is that too web 1.0?

VR/AR has the capacity to bridge technology platforms that have hitherto been kept separate, sometimes by cultural forces, and sometimes for good reason. Words like 'content' are ripe for misinterpretation - I'd be more careful about assuming too much about strangers on the internet, mate.

To be fair, I should have been less vague, especially on a thread about an apple product where people tend to get a bit evangelical.

[mckn1ght]

> You have been fully exploited.

That's a bit harsh. "Content" can mean a wide variety of things, and smartphones/tablets are capable of displaying such a wide variety of things.

We strive to curtail our own usage of devices around our young daughter at home. The extent of her screen time is maybe 1-2 movie nights per month.

But she and I do around 5-10 minutes of Duolingo/Pimsleur every day. She asks every morning if we're going to "do French" today (even though we switched to Hungarian for most of this year).

Are we fully exploited?

[microtonal]

Once a SV PR department is done with it, I’m sure that families will not share ‘content’ but ‘experiences’.