Except in fact we have just seen 2 centuries of drudgery automated. Have you seen a combine harvester?
Technological progress is not generalizable in the abstract. For hundreds of years human built faster and faster means of transportation and yet the record for fastest human vehicle remains 1969 appollo 10 mission.
There are hard limits to physics. It is not malleable without limit.
Magic leap said they were going to shrink down their light field tech a decade ago but gave up. The reality is that this technology may just not be physically possible.
Vr is a fancy display tech for niche games. It's at best another lane in the console war.
AR, actual ar with light fields is not feasible. The tech will never get there. It's just too computionally expensive and the optics don't pan out.
They def would mind
Not great. The ux is stuck in 2006
Because if you have to subdize to get marketshare then how are you going to maintain that marketshare once you stop subsidizing?
This has been the play for the last decade of cheap VC debt in tech. Wework, Uber, etc all these businesses operate at a loss in the hopes they can someday get a monopoly. That's the explicitly stated business goal or Uber!
It's not sustainable. It's stupid and the bill will come due eventually.
Games as an industry is impossible to make money in unless you're a platform owner. That's just how it is. The 1983 game industry crash and Nintendo resurrection showed that. It's just repeating the cycle.
They subsidizing in hopes they can gain monopolistic marketshare.
They're probably never going to be as small as glasses just due to hard physical limits in optics.
What are you even talking about? I haven't made up any words.
Then why hasn't it been solved? It's been nearly a decade since the oculus sdk came out.
And if you think the max track pad haptics are indistinguishable from a real button click, you're... Not very perceptive imo. Don't mean that as an attack. Just open your mind to the idea that other people can def tell the difference.
It seems more likely to happen through a brain interface, but also I'm increasingly skeptical that will ever be possible. Optimistic estimates for a full brain interface are a century plus, just by judging at the number of direct neuron measures we currently have and applying a (optimistic) Moore's law style exponential curve: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
Vr is real fun but it's fundamentally just another display technology. It's less "ready player one" and more "what 3d TVs promised and failed to be".
And your ancestors also subsistence farmed and didn't have all the technology you do.
Look I'm as big a critics of our modern capital-industrial system as the next person but it's crazy to not see how technology has made people more productive and given us more wealth.
Also the idea that peasants had lore days off is sorts debunked: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/kks6tq/comment/gh4oh5c
It is however quite true that people during the industrial revolution itself were working way more hours than previously which is why the whole labor movement kicked off. We appreciate the gains of previous ancestors fighting for our labor rights.
Could things be better? Certainly. Is automation being maliciously targeted towards art and creativity at the expense of not increasing productivity and reducing drudgery? No.