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I've had so many VR fanboys going on and on about how it'll change the world, and I've always told them they were wrong because of the cost and tech limitations like battery life. Also the fact that people will think it looks stupid - even something as comparatively minimal as Google Glass was ridiculed, hated, and flopped.
Looks like I was right. Again.
tbf, google glass and similar are AR rather than VR. Honestly the technology has been improving over the last few years, though not in as dramatic a fashion as when it went from a rare lab or obscure tech hobbyist thing to something mainstream consumers could buy, if expensively, more in the same sense that things like computer gpus get a little bit more powerful each generation but stay fundamentally being the same kind of thing. The cost has also gone down a bit on the low end (though the higher end is still thousands, its possible to get a decent headset for the mid hundreds, or low hundreds if you get a refurbished or lightly used one). I dont think it will really revolutionize all that much, but I do think it will gradually become a reasonably significant area of the entertainment market, in the same way that things like video game consoles arent revolutionary technology beyond a certain segment of the entertainment market, but are still common enough to be economically and culturally relevant. With the current prices and use case, video game consoles are essentially what they are. Im personally exited to see where the tech goes, even though it probably wont be the next smartphone the way some claim.