Comment by ilaksh
3 years ago
"Irreplaceable" is not accurate, since as you said, the big issue is with high latency and low-bandwidth channels.
In the same city with a good connection, video is often about as good.
3 years ago
"Irreplaceable" is not accurate, since as you said, the big issue is with high latency and low-bandwidth channels.
In the same city with a good connection, video is often about as good.
I still think it's accurate, especially in the context of the article. Video doesn't give you eye contact, let alone selective eye contact among a group. Video doesn't let your ears hear the room around in you in 3d.
VR can provide those things (eye contact maybe with Meta Quest Pro, we'll see if it works)
Eh...I think it will be bad enough at those things for a long enough time that it effectively will not provide those things, but rather inferior imitations. And since we've shifted from video links to VR, I'll boldly state that any solution that requires strapping a box to your face is not going to cut it.