Yes and no. I’ve used a Quest to watch movies in a theater with different people from around the world and it was a very social experience. I’ve also attended a few support group meetings for dealing with loss in VR and that was honestly a really positive experience.
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Dmian@lemmy.world 11 months agoThe biggest problem I see from these kind of devices is: you’re isolating yourself. For example, it looks very cool that you can see a movie with a similar experience to a theatre, but you’re completely isolated using it. I don’t see a family, each with one of these devices on, watching a movie in the couch at the same time. It’s complicated enough when people have their smartphones out while eating with others… That doesn’t mean that it has it uses, but it’s more limited than the try to sell it to you. You’re by yourself when you’re using this device, even if you can see others.
nicetriangle@kbin.social 11 months ago
Dmian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s interesting. It’s a bit funny that new technology can take us closer to those far, and at the same time take us far from those close. :P
nicetriangle@kbin.social 11 months ago
Agreed on that, it's a weird dichotomy. I think in a way the internet as a whole has had that effect on people.
Connections in real life don't feel a deep as I remember them being in the past and its so often you see a group of people out to dinner or drinks together staring at their phones. Meanwhile I have a lot of pretty decent connections online with people I've never met in person or maybe only once or twice.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s an interesting perspective because I often feel the opposite. Especially post pandemic, I’ve gotten really into going out to bars and just talking to people. I barely even use my phone and sometimes will put it on do not disturb (unless wife calls) even while talking to people I barely know. They’re interesting folks.
But also I do have friends I made on the internet and have been greatly changed by internet interactions. Hell even my ideology was as I grew up on XKCD. But I’ve isolated myself to nothing but the internet before. Once with depression and fear as a queer teenager, and once with depression and fear as a person living through a global pandemic (thank fuck I had my wife for that), and I need quite a bit of face to face communication too or my brain loses its shit. And I need real irl community.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yeah that’s crazy isolating yourself. Now excuse me while I go sit at my desktop ignoring everyone else.
Dmian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not claiming that this is the end of western civilization or anything like that. What I mean is: the ads sell it like “you will be able to interact with those around you without problems”, and I think that’s not entirely true.
I’m not judging people wanting to isolate themselves, but in my opinion taking this thing off or putting it on is not as easy as putting your smartphone aside, or a newspaper aside.
My thinking is that this will be way more an individual experience than Apple sells. So people should take that into consideration.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 months ago
Other people can see what you’re doing, and you can see them just by turning your head.
If newspapers glued themselves to your face you might have a point.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months ago
And you can take off a visor.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 months ago
Which is a lot more complicated than turning your head. And it covers your entire field of vision. And people still can’t see what you’re doing.