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I strongly feel that meta already did create that super polished platform with Beat Saber as the first killer app. Not enough people are even willing to give it a try due to a combination of FB’s broken brand and the intimidating giant box that you have to put on your face. Hopefully, the new smaller form factors will help with the last problem


Or, you know, we played guitar hero and there's no need to relive the past with a screen 3 inches from your eyeballs?


You haven't tried modern VR yet have you? Google Cardboard doesn't count.


No, of course not. Just like I haven't tried bungee jumping.


Then why comment as if you know anything about it? I can see normal people doing that, but this is HN


Here's the part I responded to:

> Not enough people are even willing to give it a try due to a combination of FB’s broken brand and the intimidating giant box that you have to put on your face

I'm not willing to give it a try because it doesn't interest me, it has nothing to do with FB or being 'intimidated' buy a box. I just don't want to play things in VR, especially games that I've already played and the only new feature is '3 inches from face'


Yeah, fair enough, there's a tiny, tiny sliver of humanity that has no interest in fun

You should quit repeating "3 inches from face" though since it's misleading and pointless. There's this thing called a "lens" which can make something appear farther away than it really is, and they use this bold technology to make stuff in VR appear far enough away that it actually tricks your brain into thinking it's really there in 3D space




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