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I agree. AR is dead in the water until we invent magic displays that may be decades away.

VR has some nice gaming and fitness applications and I think like handheld gaming as a niche, VR gaming will never take over completely but will always be its own little corner of gaming.

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Healthcare applications are also really interesting to me because those tend to be high value for 30-60 minutes. The Department of Veteran Affairs, for instance, is the largest health system in the U.S. and has a nationwide network of clinicians already using AR/VR applications.

https://www.innovation.va.gov/hil/views/immersive/immersive....

An addictive game that incorporates a full body workout will be the killer app. Meta will get there first.

There is an entire generation of kids growing up with VR now, much like the NES a long time ago. Many of them spend more of their free time in VR than real life.

My kid has a VR headset, along with a few of his friends. He certainly uses it but it's a huge exagerration to say that he spends more of his free time in VR than real life. Minecraft / Roblox / Fortnite you could make an argument for maybe (depending on age).

Didn’t say your kid, I said many kids.

All of his friends with VR headsets as well. It's an occasional toy sort of device for pretty much everyone I know. I realize that the plural of anecdotes isn't data, so if you have actual data I'm happy to see it!

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