in the metaverse how do they decide how tall you are?
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I’ve seen apps which seem to use headset cameras actually calibrate sitting down/standing up… it’s a nontrivial consideration for action…
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At least one game asked me to select if I was standing or sitting to adjust visual field height. Headsets have cameras to set safety boundaries and do passthrough AR…detecting height and other parameters (arm swing etc) will get more important for many apps. Like fitness ones.
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this is really fascinating...the idea of VR enforcing meatspace constraints instead of letting you escape them
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I mean not all do. You can morph into a giraffe or mouse I guess. But mapping your actions to an avatar for physical action can’t really escape meatspace constraints that easily. Social apps can but then they’re not the appeal of VR.
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Like take something like a golf game. Using the wrong parameters will probably fuck up your irl game swing. In other situations you could trigger nausea.
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In other news I love when tech considerations ruin good joke premises with practicalities 🤣
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well most of my twitter jokes are cover for something im genuinely wondering about so i appreciate these responses
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like heigh it interesting bc its an arbitrary genetic quality that one would think VR lets us get away from, but there will just be other arbitrary qualities that get introduced there

