One of the key elements of the research at our lab at NYU is that people in virtual worlds should spend time together. And not just virtually together — physically together.<\/p>\n
We see such experiences as being just one more extension of what people do best: Hanging out with each other. We suspect that the current focus on single person VR experiences is mainly due to temporary limitations of the technology.<\/p>\n
Which made it especially odd to take a walk around the VR exhibition space at the SXSW conference today. There were many VR products on display, and in every one of them you could see people in a in a headset all by themselves, not interacting with other people — or even able to perceive other people in the room with them.<\/p>\n
I was with someone who is not from the VR community. She found it very eerie to see all of these people lost in a VR world, disconnected from the people around them. And those people were being stared at by other people who had no idea what the person in VR was experiencing.<\/p>\n
My friend said to me afterward that it was all very unnerving to behold, and that it seemed to make television look good by comparison.<\/p>\n
That inspired me. So here’s my proposed new slogan for single-person VR:<\/p>\n
\n“Virtual reality: We make television look good.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’m not sure this slogan will catch on within the industry. Note that none of this is a problem if one sees single-user VR for what it is: an important transition technology, the modern equivalent of the Kinetoscope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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