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Pussycat Catnap

The biggest problem with VR hype is the same as with any form of hype.

When the inevitable reality comes out and is known... people will become overly harsh and judgemental about supposed false-promises. Even if those people are the very people who formerly fabricated the false-promises.

SL is case in point everyone here should be familiar with. Many of its later harshest critics were the very media and companies that once hyped it way beyond the hype Linden Lab actually created around it.

They blamed SL for its failure to live up to the lies they themselves told about it...

That is what will happen with VR as well.

The thing is, this is basically as old as the invention of the wheel... if not the invention of fire...

Human beings have been hyping things and then getting resentful rather than fessing up to their own hype for as long as there have been human beings...

And that we still fall for that stupidity is a tragic failing of the species...

VR won't be special in getting burned by its own hype. But it also won't be special in managing to escape its own hype.

What's tragic in that is the people who can't see that this wheel is just like all the other ones we've been carting out for the last few million years of evolution...

Cyberserenity

The hype will go away quickly. Then we have to learn how to use VR. The headsets are to expensive to get in to every mans home. There are very few applications.

I think it will follow Second life. It is for the few. But we who still use SL and Opensim are hardcore. A very stable gang of followers.

For me i could not live with out my Oculus rift. I fly planes in FSX almost every day and explore SL. I love it. I think most people will never learn how to use VR before putting the think in a box and forget about it.

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