Re: VR still on the rise?

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 08:18:40 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, JAB
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"The metaverse won't just augment tasks. Tibor Mérey, managing director
and partner with BCG X, part of Boston Consulting Group, said he
envisions the metaverse also helping people through their daily lives.
Imagine, he said, being able to wear smart glasses that could put
nametags on the guests at a party while you mingle -- ending the need to
ask acquaintances to remind you of their names."
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Is that seriously put forward as something that people are going to go,
sign me up and take my money?

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It sounds like something someone on the autisitic spectrum would come up
with as a selling point.
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Talking to people. Introductions. Smiling when you do so. Coping with
your own human limits. What a terrible, mystifying, embarassing chore.
Or, you know, you socialized in your adolescence and you no longer live
your life in crippling, constant embarassment. (Boy being a teenager
sucked.)

I do understand it as a British selling point. People there live their
lives *in fear* of crippling, constant embarassment. Sorry, mate. Nothing
helps with that. Stiff upper lip and all... ;^)
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