Maybe it is a problem that screen resolution and headmounted cameras can fix, but every time I get excited about VR, I think about how often I get to look at my computer screen TO THE EXCLUSION of the real world (never).
A full face headset is a 15 minute toy at best for me, because life is not generally set up for total immersion except in very rare situations.

I have a hard enough time finding a chance to play games without a pause button, I can't imagine how little time I would play one that requires you to don and remove a facemask in-between distractions.

I mean there are lonely otaku that could live in this thing, but the vast majority of people *even geeks* actually have to log into the real world more often than you'd think.

I know I know, games aren't geared toward old dudes with disposable income and kids and wives... but really, VR seems to have a deceptively small use-case

In my career I have worked for boring banks and boring monolithic enterprise software giants.

If there is one thing I know for certain it is that big enterprise will ALWAYS have a huge appetite for quantification of data. It almost doesn't matter if it actually does anything for you, executives at giant corporations have to DO SOMETHING have to REVIEW SOMETHING. Large scale data aggregation and reporting (one of the many things that go by "big data") might not have sciency uses, but any time a V level can provide a C level with "something" that says "We are doing stuff" there will be a huge market for it.

Basically what I am saying is, even if "Big Data" is nothing but a placebo, like say "HR Training", "Wellness programs", "performance reviews" or "teambuilding" it is a permanent fixture in the big, boring, high paying, stable job providing corporate world.

FYI the flu shot question is part of medicare/medicaid funding. If they don't ask you, then it doesn't count as a completed examination, and since they don't really know/care if you are medicare or self-funded, they ask everyone. They aren't pushing it, but if they don't ask they get a paddling from the government.

I think the visceral betrayal feeling is deep-rooted in the human psyche, and has nothing to do with the "camera". For a very long time, human beings have used eye-contact as an establishment of trust and social connection. Replacing that with ANYTHING is extremely emotionally difficult for some people. Hell, people threw a fit about dark sunglasses in the 80s, and I believe the Glass-hate is actually closer to the fear of sunglasses than it is to the fear of "big brother."

It is actually a lot more socially acceptable in modern times to be a-typically social (read: Geeky, Autistic, Introverted, Gay) when it is consciously recognized, but people are still just as xenophobic and reactive when it is below the surface, when something strikes a nerve with their core psychological infrastructure.
When you wear Glass or dark sunglasses, some people think you are SCREAMING "I get to see your inner emotions and private thoughts, but you do not get to see mine." It is in the head of the attacker, not the glasshole, but it comes from an icky feeley place and not a place of reason.

Case study: Nobody gives a shit about dashboard cams or GoPro.

It is awesome that your radio shack is still a radio shack. Mine is not. You know those drawers full of switches and other breadboard components? Yeah those are gone, 'cause of some superbowl rebranding, or something.

I think many of the stores might sell real stuff somewhere in the back... but the last 2 I went to had nothing more than cellphones and headphones, nothing else.

And Bush before him, and Clinton before him and Bush before him, etc etc. Lets get real, corporate ownership of government is a wholly bi-partisan endeavor.

"Piece of equipment?"
There is nothing there that 7Eleven doesn't sell cheaper and with better customer service... Except cellphones, which isn't exactly a niche.

Kindle fire, Kindle Paperwhite, Nook Color, PocketEdge (eInk and LCD Dual screen device), and several other junk tablets.

Amazon app store works on even the most antiquated and wacky devices. Google Store dropped support for Froyo while froyo was still something like 84% of the market. Many of my devices never made it past that. Google Android market/Play relies on disposable devices... whereas the amazon store will work on anything.

Amazon app store is supported on all 9 of my android devices. Play store is supported on 2 of them. It is already the first place I look for an app.

I have never heard of "WhatsApp" ...450 million users?

Real level 5 vegans don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

They already have one of the most open and functional peering systems for ISPs. So much so that it is your own fault if you are an ISP and netflix is taking a significant chunk of your "real" bandwidth. It costs an ISP almost nothing to deploy a netflix appliance, and there are no licensing fees. A home peering device is so impractical I don't even know where to begin... but if you are streaming more than the last ###### cable feet it is because your isp is stupid.

ISPs are insanely stupid about this, even when they sorta try to get it right... For instance: ATT UVerse DNS (which is not configurable on their provided router) bypasses the ATT hosted CDN and connects me (in Texas) up to Seattle. Switch to google DNS servers, and it will use the local ATT hosted CDN. The tech support people (who don't know what DNS is) swear that it is "optimized for digital TV viewing"

The conspiracy theorist in me wants to say this is an intentional hobbling of netflix to make their shitty TV service seem better... but I just don't have that kind of confidence in their competence... since they host a Netflix CDN anyway.

I think they just have no damn idea what they are doing.

thanks.

They are the organization most likely to be able to wage war on the moon... I am pretty sure that makes 'merka the owner, and NASA the steward.