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TIL the Pluto is a company that lies. Their product is not VR by any common definition. So basically they've taught my they're a scammy company

Note: I get that by some mental gymnastics you can say it's VR but by that argument, all services you use to communicate with are VR as is nearly every video game. VR has a meaning. This usage of it is not that.

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It's fine to make an objection to what you feel is an accurate claim, but going straight to "lies" and "scammy company" is way too aggressive for a case like this. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? They include:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

got it. I will start flagging any comment that in puts down a company with comments like "company X is toxic/scammy/lying/dicks" etc.... Lots of those all over.

Hmm, I did not mean to abuse the term "VR". The original usage is much broader than just "put on a headset" immersive VR. For example, text-only MUDs & MUSHes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality

and

https://www.howtogeek.com/661428/text-based-vr-explore-the-p...

However, given how strongly people feel about the term, happy to use something different in the future to avoid ambiguity. E.g. "Virtual spaces" or "Spatial video".

Really the intention was to simulate aspects of the real world and in particular to virtualize human interactions in an online space.

Thanks for pointing this out.

This is easily fixed - the title doesn't need "VR" in it and in fact reads better without it, so I just took it out.

(Submitted title was 'Show HN: Pluto in-browser VR spatial video chat'.)

Thanks for the fix! I also changed the title of my blog to remove "VR".

Too bad Twitter still doesnt have editable tweets :/

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