Re: VR still on the rise?

On 2/6/2025 1:56 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> writes:
 

Is that seriously put forward as something that people are going to
go, sign me up and take my money?

 No. I can see AR or VR use might happen in professional contexts, like
having assembly or disassembly instructions right there in your field of
view for whatever thingamajig and the ability to document your progress
automagically. I understand this sort of thing is done by phones today.
 Or the idea of guiding a doctor or nurse to the right emergency room in
a big hospital? Might work. In fact I remember this sort of thing was
proposed and maybe even prototyped with Google Glass way back when.
 

That reminded me.  Some years back there was someone who had the current fad AR glasses surgically attached to his skull as a sociological experiment.  He walked into a restaurant where some bigwig with bodyguards was eating and the guards demanded he take them off.  They wouldn't listen to his telling them he _couldn't_ and tried to physically tear them off.  He had to have surgery for the injuries they caused in the attempt.
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