<story><title>The last three years of my work will be permanently abandoned</title><url>https://ericlippert.com/2022/11/30/a-long-expected-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>&amp;gt; no one wants to wear VR goggles&lt;p&gt;I would be curious how many people are willing to wear VR goggles for any amount of time. I spend easily 10-12 hours a day at my computer. I am absolutely someone who is happy working, socializing, playing, and learning all at the same desk. But I can&amp;#x27;t wear those goggles for even 2 hours. Are there people who can wear them for 12?</text></item><item><author>rob74</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Speaking of cutting costs, the company is still pouring multiple billions of dollars into vaporware called “the metaverse”. News flash: no one wants to wear VR goggles to spend any time in a digital heaven where the role of God is played by Mark Zuckerberg and you can do anything you can imagine, including “work” and “shop”.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can somehow feel that he has been dying to say this for years, but couldn&amp;#x27;t while he was still working for Meta...&lt;p&gt;But yeah, I can imagine how the decisions on layoffs usually go: &amp;quot;what are those guys doing? Probabilistic something or other?! No idea what that&amp;#x27;s good for! And wow, look how much they get paid!&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>luckylion</author><text>I haven&amp;#x27;t used the new ones, but I have an Oculus Go. I think the most important part is fitting. I believe there are companies selling accessories to make it more comfortable to wear, and I&amp;#x27;d totally invest in that if I planned to use it more, or in a different setting.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m using it for porn (and it&amp;#x27;s amazing, VR porn is the most underrated thing imho, but maybe I&amp;#x27;m just weird) and for movies (non-3d, having these slightly-3d-movies didn&amp;#x27;t really add to the experience for me). I&amp;#x27;m someone who can&amp;#x27;t concentrate on movies on a normal screen, my attention wanders and I&amp;#x27;ll quit watching and do something else, continue later etc and it might take me three days to complete a single movie. Not so while using the Oculus Go, I&amp;#x27;m cut off from the world around me, focused on the movie, and now I sometimes watch a movie in one sitting (though I do rarely watch movies these days, so idk how much this is worth).&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know if I want to spend any time &amp;quot;socializing&amp;quot; through it, but when I was sick I&amp;#x27;ve definitely used it for 6-7 hours on one day to watch multiple movies, and it was fine.</text></comment>
<story><title>The last three years of my work will be permanently abandoned</title><url>https://ericlippert.com/2022/11/30/a-long-expected-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>&amp;gt; no one wants to wear VR goggles&lt;p&gt;I would be curious how many people are willing to wear VR goggles for any amount of time. I spend easily 10-12 hours a day at my computer. I am absolutely someone who is happy working, socializing, playing, and learning all at the same desk. But I can&amp;#x27;t wear those goggles for even 2 hours. Are there people who can wear them for 12?</text></item><item><author>rob74</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Speaking of cutting costs, the company is still pouring multiple billions of dollars into vaporware called “the metaverse”. News flash: no one wants to wear VR goggles to spend any time in a digital heaven where the role of God is played by Mark Zuckerberg and you can do anything you can imagine, including “work” and “shop”.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can somehow feel that he has been dying to say this for years, but couldn&amp;#x27;t while he was still working for Meta...&lt;p&gt;But yeah, I can imagine how the decisions on layoffs usually go: &amp;quot;what are those guys doing? Probabilistic something or other?! No idea what that&amp;#x27;s good for! And wow, look how much they get paid!&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mr_gibbins</author><text>I can manage 15 minutes or so on my aging Oculus Quest but that&amp;#x27;s about it.  There&amp;#x27;s a Netflix option on there, I can relax in a virtual cinema with surround sound and a screen sized big enough to feel like a cinema screen and I&amp;#x27;ve not been able to watch anything because of the vertigo.&lt;p&gt;I thought my kids would go crazy on it, perhaps I&amp;#x27;m too old, out of touch etc. but they can do 15 mins max too.  It&amp;#x27;s a novelty toy, quickly put away.&lt;p&gt;If Google Glasses had really taken off and I could have AR, not VR - overlays on ordinary vision - I&amp;#x27;d be there.  Handy for work, could do virtual meetings, notifications, all sorts.  But as with most things Google it went the way of the dodo and I haven&amp;#x27;t heard of any replacement poised to take the world by storm.</text></comment>