• devrandom
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      3 years ago

      Here I thought it was just because Robert Scoble keeps telling the world that it’s the next big thing that everyone wants…

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    3 years ago

    presumably for targeting purposes, to creep into people’s minds for the ultimate manipulation of perception

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    I’ve wondered about this myself. I think they’re just looking for new frontiers of social experiences over the internet. We still don’t have good VR. When I tried it recently it was still jerky, low resolution, with uninteresting content and causing headaches after two mins. But these are all hardware issues and I expect that at some point the hardware will be good enough at a low enough cost to produce a decent user experience.