Matthew Dowd
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Grassroots VR populist & zealot | Nostradamus of XR | @thatswilddotcom
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VR is the inevitable final frontier for humanity. My presentation about @thatswilddotcom at @HF0Residency…
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Given how bad retention is for VR headsets in general - this is absolutely pathetic. And it’s going to get worse since Meta is diversifying Worlds away from VR. Meta’s foot is easing off the gas. The number of retained VR users added this year is probably in the hundreds of
Quest has another down year, this time shipping only about 4M units. Quest is a huge investment at Meta with absolutely abysmal sales. PS5 is outdoing Quest by about 500%, despite Quest's 10yr R&D budget dwarfing PlayStation's 30 year spend.
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This also has nothing to do with VR hardware improvements. Bar memory & consciousness overrides through invasive BCI, all immersive devices will face this same challenge.
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There are lots of really great things that will eventually be done in virtual reality worlds - education, travel, work, sports, marriages, etc. But until the virtual reality world where these activities take place is a plausible world, they will all be “games”. The activities
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This is not (necessarily) to say that a VR future means a more gay/trans one. But gay and trans spread rapidly among youth and teens because if a desire for social status signaling and reclamation of identity. VR does the same thing!
The rapid social contagion of gay and trans identities among youth is an indicator of VR’s inevitable, similar takeover.
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Saying VR has to look like the physical world, have physically accurate human avatars, etc. is like saying airplanes would have had to flap their wings like birds to succeed.
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Bounds: 6dof controllers, supports hand tracking, B/W passthrough, Quest 2 panels, somewhere between Quest 2 and 3 performance.
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What would the ideal standalone VR headset OS experience look like? I’ve got complete access to a headset and @thatswilddotcom might make an OS interface for it for fun. Ideas?
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The rapid social contagion of gay and trans identities among youth is an indicator of VR’s inevitable, similar takeover.
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Amazing how the world from @thatswilddotcom has become more coherent with each iteration run. Like seeing consciousness wake up in a newly engineered organism.
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I’m ready!
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We need VR headsets fewer features, not more. Nobody knows what a VR headset is really for today. They might guess gaming - but what does that even mean? So many unnecessary features only compounds the confusing software landscape in VR.
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What an amazing view to strap a VR headset on in front of! MASSIVE SOCIAL VR CONTAGION!
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Most VR people don’t have opinions about VR. Some people have opinions, but they flip flop regularly. What you’ll soon notice is that I am extremely consistent in my thesis on VR over time.
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Fidelity of virtual reality worlds does not matter right now. The most popular virtual reality worlds have PS2 graphics, low poly and primitive shape meshes, etc. What matters more is freedom in these worlds - creation, destruction, interaction. This points to voxels as the
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THIS MESSAGE WILL REPEAT UNTIL THERE ARE NONE LEFT TO READ IT. They will breach the mortal realm on FRIDAY, OCT 31st at VIVARIUM. https://t.co/IUpdFYo5Tp
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Ticket & ID required at the door. Buy your ticket: https://vivarium.regfox.com/analogue-phobia THIS MESSAGE WILL REPEAT UNTIL THERE ARE NONE LEFT TO READ IT. 476 MHz incident Creeping from the...
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