I want to like VR, I have Occuli and a Vive, but I just don't get the use case.
Gaming is clumsy and disorienting. While the immersion is awesome at the visual level I find it's an uncanny valley to have sight and sound but no touch - a boxing game where you can't feel your opponent hitting you or some shots are or aren't missed or blocked when they should or shouldn't have been.
Doing work doesn't seem great either. The interface is just worse - not as precise. If I'm writing a lot code or prose I want a keyboard. Swype will do for short text - but the typing controls I've seen in VR and imagine are there in AVP? Not a serious replacement. Speech to text is obviously very good, but still wrong enough to need a lot of corrections.
Watching content? Maybe, I guess. I haven't seen anything that's better in VR versus on a screen.
Just don't see a use for these things, though I want to. When I imagine myself in the cyberpunk future I can let my vision of the real world fade out and access an IDE, terminal, or browser and interact with it through thought alone. The AVP stuff just seems like a gimmick to me.
The author's use case of comics is not one I've thought of before, but it doesn't like a killer app to me. Instead it seems more like an experience I have commonly with VR which is like "Whoa, that's neat" followed by putting the headset up and never doing it again.
Gaming is clumsy and disorienting. While the immersion is awesome at the visual level I find it's an uncanny valley to have sight and sound but no touch - a boxing game where you can't feel your opponent hitting you or some shots are or aren't missed or blocked when they should or shouldn't have been.
Doing work doesn't seem great either. The interface is just worse - not as precise. If I'm writing a lot code or prose I want a keyboard. Swype will do for short text - but the typing controls I've seen in VR and imagine are there in AVP? Not a serious replacement. Speech to text is obviously very good, but still wrong enough to need a lot of corrections.
Watching content? Maybe, I guess. I haven't seen anything that's better in VR versus on a screen.
Just don't see a use for these things, though I want to. When I imagine myself in the cyberpunk future I can let my vision of the real world fade out and access an IDE, terminal, or browser and interact with it through thought alone. The AVP stuff just seems like a gimmick to me.
The author's use case of comics is not one I've thought of before, but it doesn't like a killer app to me. Instead it seems more like an experience I have commonly with VR which is like "Whoa, that's neat" followed by putting the headset up and never doing it again.