• brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    391·
    3 months ago

    AR/VR is actually cool, but it’s just incredibly niche, for the foreseeable future, for so many reasons.

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      29 days ago

      My biggest problem is that I have to either wear contacts or order special lenses just to use it. Trying to wear glasses in VR is very cumbersome and annoying, plus you risk scratching the lenses. They need to find a way to make the headset smaller and easier to wear, and have it automatically adjust to your vision as well (which will never happen until they get rid of that pointless law that requires you to see an overpriced doctor every year to get a prescription.)

      • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        As someone who’s had similar issues, I’ve previously wondered if it would be possible to ‘simulate’ a prescription lens and have the headset just add a distortion to the video feed that approximates what your lenses do.

        • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          the tldr is no, because the optical effects you can correct that way are not the ones that glasses/contacts exist to correct for.

          • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            Ah, that’s unfortunate. I did figure that if it were as easy as I proposed, it would probably already be implemented.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, exactly!

        I was thinking of motion sickness, too. VR/AR makes a huge fraction of people sick, literally.

        • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Gotcha. I’m like the Zuck in the sense that I don’t get sickness in VR, so I forget that it’s a major issue for most other people. Full joystick locomotion with all the motion sickness assists turned off is the only way to go for me. (They break immersion.) I never got headaches from 3D movies and games either. I really miss that era of PC gaming because the glasses were a lot less cumbersome than a headset.

          I feel really bad for those who have motion sickness issues with games; happened to me one time when I was drinking too much one day and then made the mistake of hitting the live resin. So I completely get why those who suffer wouldn’t want to touch VR. I sure wouldn’t if that was my normal experience.

        • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Technically it doesn’t “make” people motion sick, they are motion sick either way. But VR offers a very accessible way to train away your motion sickness. Since you can actually stop early enough to reinforce that your brain doesn’t need to protect you. A car ride or boat is much harder to stop at a moments notice.

          If you keep reinforcing that you don’t need motion sickness, your brain stops doing it to you. It thinks it’s helping.

          Similarly, the medication for car ride or boat motion sickness works for VR too. So they can help you be able to spend more time in each session while training it away.

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    3 months ago

    What do you mean “remember”? Didn’t the Apple VR headset launch only a year or two ago?

  • fubarx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    There was little mention of it at the last Apple Developer Conference in June. They haven’t given up, but it’s not on the iPhone/Mac hardware upgrade cadence.

    Face-based computing has been around for a while. It’s got a lot to overcome.