To be fair, nfts and vr were never forced on consumers quite like AI is. VR is incredible for certain types of gaming. NFTs are also incredible too. They allow you to quickly identify morons with disposable income.

NFTs are also incredible too.

You had me in the first half, ngl

Correct, the only idiotic thing about VR is buying your hardware from Mark Zuckerberg. As the folks in the VR community here are already aware, I got my Steam Frame the other day and basically the only reason I've had to take it off my face since then is because the thing has a finite battery life.

VR and AR both have massive unrealised potential. It just seems the tech isn't quite there to break through just yet, especially for AR.

Came here to say this: I get ton of enjoyment out of racing in VR. The rests is capitalism at its worst.

AR has so many unsolvable privacy issues it's wild ..

I'm so happy I haven't heard the term Blockchain in a while connected to the next amazing technology. I'll be happy when LLM goes that way too.

Unfortunately there isn't a lot of money in that market anymore, since it's not AI.

The meta display glasses would be cool if not for the whole meta part. You don't even need to be able to access the camera. It should just be used for tracking.

We've mostly been looking in to how it can be utilized in a production environment with detailed machine stats at a glance, live setpoints without having to be near the control panel, aids for maintenance...that sort of things

Nah. That's only really a sentiment around AI. And the difference is understandable, given the promise of techbros.

I upvoted the comment while reading it, then removed the upvote, then put it back.

Hard disagree on VR.

As far as I can tell, VR is 100% fully realized. In the future, you will be able to do everything you can do in VR right now and nothing more than that, but it will be a better experience, smoother, higher res, faster frame rates.

I think that it if there were a really compelling use case, people would put up with the current technical limitations to go do it.

I think we'll slowly see adoption rise as software support & comfort improve, but this is basically the VR landscape: sims, games, porn, and some creative stuff.

I think the only really ground breaking thing would be if res became affordable enough to replace a 70" TV at a reasonable price, that--plus how much 3D kicks ass in VR--would definitely move some units.

I wouldn't compare NFTs to VR or AI. The latter two create value, while the former is purely a scam.

Swappable battery back?

I found a Meta Quest 2 at a thrift store for 20 bucks. It needed a new face cushion so I ordered one online and a Meta Quest 3S showed up instead.

So, like, hopefully one day they'll be CFW for it.

The future is not defined by products. They're just along for the ride, all of them expendable, most of them useless.

Block chain for LLMs.

Half wondering if I could just make a website and get VC funding for just the idea.

I get nauseated very fast with a vr headset and I don't think it will improve, there have been several generations of improvements where people have told me they are so good now, and every time I feel like crap within a minute or two.

I think that is another major problem with vr, it's unusable by some percentage of people that I think is significant enough to affect the market (or lack thereof).

https://arxiv.org/html/2501.07288v1

AI has destroyed colossal amounts of value.

Really the best thing about AI is that it made everybody stop trying to make vr a thing as much, because you’re right, the use cases are already spelled out and it’s pretty much a dud (in terms of being shoehorned into everything).

Yup, that's definitely a real problem for broad adoption. Technically solvable, I think, if lag and frame rates improve enough, but I don't know if it's feasible, and there's likely a bell curve where the cost to accomodate sensitive people isn't worth it.

It's also possible you could train yourself to get used to it, though it might take you more time than most, but what would be a stong enough motivation to get through that? And you'd need to basically buy a VR head set and wear it a few more seconds every day until you could get some use out of it. Pretty insane ask.

The wild thing is, NFTs were creating value before they were called that, and they still are. A git commit hash is an NFT, for all intents and purposes. The only uhh innovation is being able to pay money for it.

You have to admit, though, the Metaverse was one solid comedy highlights reel from beginning to end.

when the author spends too much time on twitter

Ai in the future will create value and be a decent product for some use cases. But.... it is likely a few billion dollar industry, not the multi-trillion industry that the current spending commitments would need to be profitable

Honestly I don't need a camera or anything integrated but I'd love to have an integrated screen for my glasses. Would be nice when putting things together to just sync it with my phone and just have it there, also maps. Look I have to wear glasses all the time might as well add a tiny bit more utility.

The sterile, uncanny zucc face is iconic.

I played an MMO in 2002. People made financial transactions for things in a digital universe. That MMO shut down and the servers wiped around the time Bored Ape shit started. Made me laugh.

But then again, Steve Bannon once made a living selling WoW gold. Shit is wild.

2 years ago I bet you could. Not sure about now. Need to find the next crazy tech fad and attach that label.

+1

Severe motion sickness issues, even in traditional games, are more common than people think.

Many are way ahead of you, unfortunately.

Favorite VR racing game? I’ve got a couple kits but I’ve never played a racing game in VR!

If this is supposed to be a “look how the first two obviously stupid things went” comic, it’s not hitting with me.

Musk and Zuck are still getting rich from that stuff. Blockchain and AR hype didn’t go away. The con did not go away, it’s still working, and from my understanding, more of the population is getting convinced to follow them.

I always thought it could be useful to use NFT as a proof of ownership in a software, for example you buy a game you get an NFT that proves your ownership, down the line you sell the game to someone else, you handover the NFT and bam you are no longer the owner. But software companies won't use that as it would create a resale value and THEY want to sell new games not le YOU sell your games.

It's like chatbots, I don't have a use case for a computer kissing my ass. People tell me "oh set it up on your home computer and VPN in and then you can confidentially tell your sycophantic chatbot to cancel the meeting".

I would rather just cancel the meeting?

The chatbot is just as likely to tell you it canceled the meeting without cancelling the meeting.

There was a recent talk by the guy that started Zoom and he was pushing an AI technology that would attend meetings for you. It was so ridiculous because the ultimate dream would be a bunch of AI chatbots attending a meeting on behalf of their operators, and what would the point of that even be?

I think it was Angela Collier on YouTube if you want to share some rage.

Think Valve said something about that in the future. Also you can use a power bank while using was also mentioned. If I'll get the money I'm definitely buying steam frame rather than to buy spy hardware.

You’re absolutely right that is a major problem. The biggest reason is the mismatch between what your inner ear says (we are not moving) and what your eyes tell you (we are moving). I get nauseous really easily in VR.

That said I just bought a steam frame and have had pretty good luck because of how I’m using it. It’s completely wireless and I have a large space I can use it in. So I’ve been playing things that don’t require fast movement and where you have a space to explore / move around in. This allows me to physically walk around the real room while exploring in VR. It’s made a huge difference but not everyone has the luxury of a big empty room they can use for that. I just mention this in case anyone else was like me and wants to do VR but gets nauseous easily.

My current employer is pushing AI HARD. Like "throw out old processes, 10x everything, the singularity is here so we can't work the way we always have".

The thing is, the best use case for AI I have found is replacing middle management. The bots are pretty good at summarizing a bunch of PRs and doc updates into weekly bullet point progress updates (which is 90% of how those managers are judged). I've flirted with the idea of making an AI team manager to replace the helicopter EMs and PMs and let the devs focus on the dev'ing.

That idea got shut down quite quickly.. wonder why.

Most of us can't drop 1k+ on a headset. My oculus which I got for 300 is still going strong after 2 years. And no, you don't need a FB (edit: META) account. Piracy is also quite available for us 3rd world countrymen

Good news:

When Amazon announced in late October that it would cut roughly 14,000 corporate positions while leaving its warehouse workforce largely untouched, it signaled something executives have been quietly preparing for: AI's first major casualty isn't the factory worker. It's the middle manager.

https://peoplemanagingpeople.com/hr-strategy/ai-middle-management/

The Quest is actually quite dope. Rooted and used local.

AI isn't the future. It's the now.

It's amazing how much more sane people in China are about it.

Yeah I don't enjoy watching other people play FPS games either.

Jokes aside, they all have something in common: a technology that can be useful in some very specific niches, but is advertised as a solution to all problems in the world and usd in large scale for things they shouldn't be used for, just to grab investors' money

I stole an NFT once, that was kind of cool.

Cloud-based multiverse virtual reality with agentic, llm-based, personas. All that using generative graphics and integrated into a blockchain.

You need to dream bigger, my friend, or the dumb billionaires won't fill you with money

It's like that Google circle plus thing that started the decline of YouTube.