Various people in our lab attended the on-line Facebook Connect today. And I think the fundamental problem with it was the same as the problem I saw at Burning Man in AltSpace.<\/p>\n
The entire system is set up to throw you in with complete strangers. There seems to be no accommodation for people who want to share the experience.<\/p>\n
Perhaps there is such an accommodation, and I couldn’t find it. But one would think that would be the first<\/i> consideration in any shared social media experience in VR.<\/p>\n
Given that you don’t have the normal cues for vetting people, all of the issues of finding yourself in a group of strangers are magnified. I don’t think that is a fundamental problem with VR, but I do think it is something that needs to be addressed very well and up front.<\/p>\n
We don’t give up on automobiles because they are potentially dangerous. Instead, we develop regulations and require people to wear seatbelts.<\/p>\n
So where are the seatbelts for socially shared VR?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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