I expect this to go the way of the 3D movie/TV set industry: It'll start as being a novelty, but in the end, people just won't pay extra money to get distracted from the movie.
I think the mind makes it real, even when it's words on a page or dots on a tiny screen. So I honestly don't think it's going to make a lot of difference.
The first time I saw a 3D movie it was incredibly immersive. But after a few, the brain reconfigures its expectations, and the same inputs are interpreted as "just a movie".
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I expect this to go the way of the 3D movie/TV set industry: It'll start as being a novelty, but in the end, people just won't pay extra money to get distracted from the movie.
It's a very neat effect, but I think his point was that it's not 3D rendering, so from that aspect it's not particularly interesting.
It's sort of like going to a play and then saying you just watched a 3D movie.
I think the mind makes it real, even when it's words on a page or dots on a tiny screen. So I honestly don't think it's going to make a lot of difference.
The first time I saw a 3D movie it was incredibly immersive. But after a few, the brain reconfigures its expectations, and the same inputs are interpreted as "just a movie".