I've been thinking about writing a blog post detailing how this ad from six years ago is still at least a full decade ahead of every other commercial for VR that anyone's produced since
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It breaks every rule you think promotional material ought to have - it's unpolished, it shows people being awkward at first, being confused, making mistakes - but all that is why, unlike a big-budget Super Bowl ad a megacorp like Meta would make, this feels *honest*, feels *real*
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the way introduces the Chaperone grid around 2:20... I get chills, it's so good. There's just so much *empathy* in this video, so much radiant warmth, so much *genuine social interaction*. It's like the polar opposite of Horizon Worlds' lonely, cold, dead atmosphere
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yours was actually the specific post that got me thinking about this
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In case this place melts down this week, I feel the need to say something first to my VR peeps.
I've been pretty angry, awful, insulting & derisive to a lot of folk over the past couple years out of dissatisfaction about where VR has gone.
For what little it's worth, I'm sorry.
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Just FYI, this trailer got me as excited for mixed reality as for VR. The tingle was equal and continues to be to this day. You showed that we could functionally have a Holodeck, something I thought I might see before I died, not within a few decades of Star Trek introducing it.
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