In my opinion the theater is vastly superior, far more connected and human than VR.
That's perfectly reasonable. I'm not complaining about people expressing preferences. (Though I think their input is less valuable if they have not experienced the thing they are criticizing. I've even seen people here claim that they can't possibly use VR because they can't focus on a screen two inches from their eyes—it's obvious that they haven't tried VR and have no idea how it works)
I've blocked a couple of people who go on bizarre rants about how VR is somehow connected to NFTs. Even though you disagree with me a lot, I mostly find your comments to be perfectly cromulent.
This are the kinds of comments that aren't useful:
This really reflects bad on you. It tells us what kind of person you are in a real theater and a virtual theater.
It's a loner's form of watching a movie,
I am not attacking other people's character for their preferred way of watching a movie, or calling them luddites or whatever.
I'm sorry that the term "gatekeeping" triggered you. I just think it's silly that people say I'm watching movies the wrong way:
and for real movie fans being a loner is antithetical to what the film experience is about.
People who want only to share the viewing experience with their chosen people in VR instead of being in a theater with strangers don't get what makes movies both special and important. Only watching movies with your friends in VR is just another way to isolate and self-segregate
I never said I only watch movies that way. But it is a way to for me to connect to people that are physically far away. If I weren't watching with those people, I'd rather watch on my OLED TV. The TV has better image quality, and I find VR to be less comfortable when I'm in a more passive experience.
It's not about seeing - or interacting - with anyone. It's about being present and everyone holding that space together.
I don't believe there is some special energy that comes from other people being physically present in a room, even if I can't see or hear them.
I agree to an extent. VR just makes the problems worse because it further removes us from our shared reality
I think there is some value in segregating time in virtaul worlds and the real world. I'd rather someone spend a couple hours in VR, and leave their phone at home when going out, rather than being halfway in their virtual phone world all day.
It seems like VR is heavily a part of your identity and you obviously take any criticism personally.
We're in a thread about VR. I think it's weird how much time people who claim to not be interested in VR spend in threads like this* (not directed at you). I enjoy VR and have had some fun and unique experiences with it, so I want to share that. I have been using it less frequently recently due to comfort issues, the time it takes to set up, the lack of software, and the need to upgrade my PC means some newer titles aren't running well. I'm not going to make some wild predictions about how popular it will be, but I'm excited to see if maybe Apple's device can mitigate some of those issues.
I spend a lot more time playing traditional video games than VR games. I don't think VR games can, or should, replace traditional video games. But we aren't in a comment thread about traditional video games, so I'm not discussing that here. So of course you are seeing a skewed representation of me.
*but far be it from to gate-keep how people post on these forums
