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What I mean when I say "I think VR is bad news".
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| This just got linked to by the Y combinator news account, without proper context, | |
| so a brief introduction: A month ago (end of May / early June 2014) I had a | |
| Twitter conversation with a bunch of acquaintances. One tweet in the middle | |
| of that thread, with obligatory hyperbole, was me saying that I think VR is | |
| bad news. | |
| Well, that part of the thread (but not the rest that provides context) recently | |
| got retweeted, and then someone asked me if I could explain what I mean by that, | |
| and because Twitter is a great platform for delivering 140 character slogans and | |
| not so great for lengthy explanations, I wrote this. So, obligatory disclaimer: |