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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9270946" data-attributes="member: 18">Those are two major obstacles, but there are huge problems with VR and AR headsets causing motion sickness in huge proportions of individuals. Gender and ethnicity seem to play significant roles in these - East Asian people seem to particularly vulnerable - I understand this is also true of motion sickness in general - and they're largest population group on this planet! Women also experience far worse and more motion sickness from VR/AR headsets than men, and again, majority of people on the planet! Also them causing headaches, dry eyes, and other problems in others.So you can theoretically solve weight and price - though people have been saying it'll be solved "within 10 years" for 12 years now and it actually seems to be getting worse (price-wise at least) - but even then you have a device that somewhere between 30-60% of people (some estimates are even higher) find nauseating and/or extremely painful or unpleasant to use. Now, there are studies showing that if you continue to heavily use a VR/AR device despite it causing nausea, you do tend to eventually largely push through it (though weak nausea often remains) - but this requires weeks of self-conditioning, of intentionally subjecting yourself to potentially very extreme nausea on a multiple-times-a-day basis. Headaches/migraines and eye issues seem to intractable - if you get them you may have better luck with a different product or not, but they won't go away.It does not escape my notice that white men aged 20-50 are the group least likely to have problems with VR/AR group evangelizing for everyone being forced to use VR/AR.I suspect we'll see useful AR eventually, and even solve the nausea issues, but I suspect we're talking more like 20, 30 or more years than 10. 10 won't even solve the weight problems without some drastic new tech appearing. Indeed I think any real improvements won't be iterative, they'll be from taking a fundamentally different technological approach.</blockquote>

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