<story><title>Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz Is Out</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/28/magic-leap-ceo-rony-abovitz-is-out/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alangibson</author><text>In my office there are several sets from Oculus, ML, etc. Every time one shows up, it goes like this: everyone stands around and has a go at it, then it is never touched again.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s basically the state of VR and AR as it exists today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lewton</author><text>I organized a vr party recently with my old beat up vive and people played keep talking and nobody explodes for 6 hours in a row&lt;p&gt;That’s the state of VR today.&lt;p&gt;Whenever I do VR as a social activity there’s never anyone leaving unsatisfied. And I’ve “sold” plenty of headsets that I hear reports about still getting regular use several years later&lt;p&gt;And now with oculus quest it’s an even easier sell&lt;p&gt;Every time there’s any vr related post on HN, the most upvoted comment is about VR being dead tech, all the while oculus and valve have their headsets on constant back-order&lt;p&gt;Maybe consider that you’re not the target audience</text></comment>
<story><title>Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz Is Out</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/28/magic-leap-ceo-rony-abovitz-is-out/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alangibson</author><text>In my office there are several sets from Oculus, ML, etc. Every time one shows up, it goes like this: everyone stands around and has a go at it, then it is never touched again.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s basically the state of VR and AR as it exists today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tashoecraft</author><text>Because who sits around at work on a vr headset? Vr is inherently anti (local) social. Vr is fantastic for certain things right now, sim racing being the one I’m familiar with, that it completely blows away any alternative.&lt;p&gt;The big issue I’ve found is the UX and software is atrocious. Things are not intuitive, there’s walled gardens (f you oculus). I’ve had so many moments of knowing what I want to do, but being totally unable to figure out how to do it.&lt;p&gt;I’ll be excited once Apple enters space to figure out a bunch of this stuff and the rest of the field can just copy them.</text></comment>