> Does someone watch an entire 2+ hour movie with a sweaty headset strapped to them (and plugged into a socket) instead of on a couch with their family/friends?
Some of us don't have local friends we want to sit down and watch a movie with; and some of us don't have local friends at all.
I know people who already watch whole movies, etc, in VRChat. This usecase already exists.
We have multiple TVs in our house. After the kids are asleep, my wife will watch her preferred shows on an iPad in bed (or second screen while working) despite there being a TV in the room. I can see people using the headset like this.
Even when the kids are awake, if granted screentime, more often than not they split off and watch/play completely different things. They'll usually only watch the same thing on the same screen if we insist, usually watching a documentary or telling them to watch the same movie together. Otherwise, their different tastes prevail.
> I know people who already watch whole movies, etc, in VRChat. This usecase already exists.
mmmmm
this line of reasoning is a bit worrying to me.
I'll use an hyperbole here, apologizes in advance, it's not specifically a counter argument, just a thought, but to me it's like saying "some people are alone, don't have friends, so they use heroin, I can totally see a usecase for manufacturing heroin"
Maybe we should try to fix the underlying problem, before trying to exploit it?
Some of us don't have local friends we want to sit down and watch a movie with; and some of us don't have local friends at all.
I know people who already watch whole movies, etc, in VRChat. This usecase already exists.