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Telework in metaverse precursors already a reality

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By Julie JAMMOT

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Seriously?

It is already a pain in the a.. to sit in front of a laptop or PC (a PC or laptop with a nice large screen being the better comfort option).

Now on top people are going to spend hours with a headgear on?!

My eyesight with age has gone I spend much of my time working on small objects using a magnifying headset, after an hour that starts to feel like it is 20 kg on your head.

These VR things are a minimum 5 times heavier if not a lot more.

Have fun if this is what you want, but when you end up with neck pain don't say you weren't warned.

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LOL the metaverse is an utter joke, it's only use case is giving heaps of gains to early investors like yours truly. After people realise they look like imbeciles wearing VR googles and the lack of movement capabilities the fad will go away. In the mean time, enjoy the 100x investments.

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-The Holy Grail is to replicate the kind of personal contact possible in offices.

Not possible. Virtual is virtual. Real is real. You can only suspend disbelief so far.

-I don't think that it's healthy to replace reality with virtual reality.

Agreed. It will be a niche, a toy, a gimmick, an emergency back-up, an uncomfortable way to view property, and a gaming peripheral. It will not be a replacement for reality in the mainstream. Few people want to live in The Matrix.

Governments have test-marketed lockdown+virtuality. It didn't make them popular, it didn't prevent the economy from being hammered, and I doubt they will be doing it again any time soon.

If Facebook are betting the farm on the metaverse, all those FB haters will soon have to find something else to rant about.

Those with large wallets should consider investing in distributed tech rather than this.

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It will be a niche, a toy, a gimmick, an emergency back-up, an uncomfortable way to view property, and a gaming peripheral.

Heh, that's what clueless people said about the internet when it first came out too.

You clearly haven't tried out virtual reality meetings. Anyone who has (I have) can see instantly that while it's still not entirely there yet, there's no way it's not coming. Only people too clueless to understand how humanity works could try virutal reality meetings, and then think it will only ever be a gimmick. That's what people used to say about the idea of zoom meetings and working from home, and yet that is currently a very real norm.

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apropos:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/12/rising-popularity-of-vr-headsets-sparks-31-rise-in-insurance-claims

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