This VR Hater Bingo Card by @curleyswirly is pretty funny and on point, and should encourage virtual reality skeptics to at least come up with newer objections than these:
@ID_R_McGregor he marked off quite a few of the spaces on my VR Hater Bingo card: pic.twitter.com/vkKfdi4UzI
— Dough Urdan (@curleyswirly) June 18, 2015
At the same time, it doesn't include one of Warren Spector's key concerns:
[T]he big one I see are the isolating effect of simply wearing a headset. I believe most people will be genuinely frightened of and disoriented by being effectively blind to the outside world for the sake of entertainment.
I've seen VR advocates respond to this point with, "Well, when you're sleeping and dreaming, you're blind to the outside world too!" Seriously.
And yes, I know Samsung's VR device has a "view through" feature, and Valve has an augmented reality feature so you can "see" the surrounding environment, but I'm not convinced it fully addresses Warren's concern.
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If we get Bingo! do we win a scuba-mask headset? I got it twice.
Posted by: Iggy | Thursday, July 02, 2015 at 02:38 PM
It's missing 'Hamlet Au says it's dying'.
Posted by: Cube Republic | Friday, July 03, 2015 at 01:18 PM