| Lawlight said: It won't work. It takes you out of the real world and that's not something that people want. |
It could easily be argued that this is exactly what people want. Every PC gamer I've come across in real life has been introverted and spends a hefty bulk of their time immersing themselves in front of that screen with a headset on; my little brother does this and it's sad.
I have to ride public transportation 5 hours to and from work each day because of a DUI. Once again, If I actually get off my phone and look around everybody else has their head down doing things on their smart phones, not saying a word. We live in an era of disconnect. The population is too dense in many areas and nobody wants to put up with some strangers bullshit. VR will have massive appeal to MMO players. VR will have massive appeal to asian countries. VR will have massive appeal to introverts. Pretty much anyone who wants to escape their real life and be someone or something else. Now I'm not saying this will make up the majority of VR players but the novelty is broad and has potential to appeal to literally everyone. You could use it for games, for real estate agents trying to demo houses out of town, for people wanting to travel but don't have the income, for training in the work place, education.... literally everything.
The one thing I find is that as technology advances, we gradually build up barriers higher and higher. It's become so easy to be someone you're not; We have the clothing, the makeup, the medicine, the surgery and the mentality to change anything we want about ourselves. That's a serious sense of false confidence and it's almost like humans have become desensitized over time leading up to this point. In theory VR could do a lot of good. In practice, should it become popular, I believe it will just do harm and progress us toward our ultimate self destruction.
