Comment Re:Vr will be huge in 10 years time. (Score 1) 75
1) People don't have VR cameras for the level of VR you can watch with Apple vision pro or Quest 3, not even Quest 2. The best we have with Youtube VR is 8k, and if you're lucky - you can find a few videos in 180vr with 8k, but they're not many. It's the same dilemma we had 8 years ago with 4K television sets, zero material, and only the famous demo videos made by Jacob & Katie Schwarz (costa rica, which probably everyone with a 4K set today already know by heart)...
I think the lack of content is actually masking a bigger problem which is it's hard to create compelling video content for VR. To me it's more like the content problem with 3D TVs... it was nearly all about the novelty. ("Ohh, look at this thing moving in and out of the screen!") Of course 3D movies still exist as a desperate theater's upsell, but Hollywood never started churning out significant volume of 3D content and I think that's because the 3D experience never justified putting something on your face to watch a movie. VR video is much more like that.. on top of needing headwear, it takes active effort to look around to "get the effect" and doing that inherently negates any sense of a director and cinematographer's framing of a story, undermining a large part of what makes a good movie good. VR movies would be movies that are literally harder to consume.
Once the quantity of pixels are there a flat "virtual theater" experience could be nice, but that's going to be completely undermined for years to come by battery life. Apple's own movies like the beautiful "Killers of the Flower Moon" would require two full charges to watch! And sure, at home I could plug in, but now I can't lie down on the couch or see my spouse or rest my head on somone's shoulder..? It's going to have to be a really compelling experience to take people away from the sheer comfort and simplicity of sitting on a couch to watch a movie.