The Future of VR: An Arms Race for Attention - on Steroids

Written by FrederikBussler | Published 2019/09/15
Tech Story Tags: vr | startups | future-of-vr | arms-race-for-attention | valve-index | latest-tech-stories | virtual-reality | the-future-of-vr | web-monetization

TLDR In 1935 VR was literally a sci-fi idea, and the Internet was also in science fiction stories before reaching half of Earth's population. The average person spends 7 hours per day online. As technology improves, attention becomes a more competitive landscape and the amount of data we give up increases. There's a multi-trillion-dollar fight for our attention, and our brains suffer by devolving. VR is more of a niche, hipster product, but it will easily be bridged in the same way as the evolution of phones.via the TL;DR App
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Written by FrederikBussler | Published author and writer.
Published by HackerNoon on 2019/09/15
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