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Why virtual reality makes a lot of us sick, and what we can do about it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure that Meta is the only company that thought there's a big market for VR, and even they seem to be giving up on it. Apple's device seems more oriented to giving you a private workspace than a real virtual world - like a big array of virtual monitors to replace actual hardware - and that avoids the worst motion sickness triggers. Of course, their device is also priced far out of mass market.

The most popular applications for VR are all games, and even the gaming companies are doing very little development in that space. Fewer people think VR will be a big thing than thought 3D TV would be a big thing.