Here's my couple of anecdotes from personal experience (I don't have an OR, just plan ol' goggles for phone VR which I've watched some movies and played some silly games on):
1) Dog surprises! So I have an awesome dog, who loves to play and is always coming by me for pets as dogs are wont to do. When I have my goggles on, I get Dog Surprised!(tm) because I can't see or hear this 70lb slobber monster coming to hop on me for the funz. And depending on what I'm watching/playing, it's super freaky when it happens cause Dog Surprise!(tm) is always surprising lol.
2) Regular annoyances become magnified. Get a call while you're playing a game on PC/console? Just answer your phone. Annoying that you had to pause and do something else, but otherwise fine. Get a call with headset + earphones on? UGH, gotta take everything off, put it down somewhere (that the previously mentioned dog won't start sniffing it with his cold wet nose), get reoriented and remember where the phone is. A couple hours deep into watching movies in VR and it does take maybe 20-30 seconds to get unfuzzy as you readjust to the real world. And cooking dinner? Bah! I can cook dinner and play games on PC no prob, just get up every so often and check on things. Taking VR goggles + earphones on and off every 10-15 minutes is not that fun.
1. Keep the door to your gaming room closed.
2. Smartphone turned off, landline on answerphone. The one that interests me is the disorientation, reminding me of studies done on perception. I would guess that as people get more used to AR, they would not become so disorientated by VR. Is it an issue? Every time a person takes of their glasses or contacts their eyes take a few seconds to readjust. So I think this would be fine, even if it takes longer. The social concern of being "wired" into the internet is valid, we already place a huge amount of importance in the online world, VR could make it a seem an alternative reality.
I am jumping in here a bit without knowing exactly what you all or talking about it seems to me there is part of a conversation about the concern of glasses? I have been wearing glasses my entire life. Am I missing a point? or maybe I just just sit this one out
And this right there sums up all of SEANMCAD's posts.
"It's pretty simple, really. If your only intention in posting about a particular game or topic is to be negative, then yes, you should probably move on. Voicing a negative opinion is fine, continually doing so on the same game is basically just trolling." - Michael Bitton Community Manager, MMORPG.com
"As an online discussion about Star Citizen grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Derek Smart approaches 1" - MrSnuffles's law
"I am jumping in here a bit without knowing exactly what you all or talking about." - SEANMCAD
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"It's pretty simple, really. If your only intention in posting about a particular game or topic is to be negative, then yes, you should probably move on. Voicing a negative opinion is fine, continually doing so on the same game is basically just trolling."
- Michael Bitton
Community Manager, MMORPG.com
"As an online discussion about Star Citizen grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Derek Smart approaches 1" - MrSnuffles's law
"I am jumping in here a bit without knowing exactly what you all or talking about."
- SEANMCAD
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