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kleinbl00  ·  4685 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why 3D Printing will go the way of VR
At any rate, it's pretty silly to compare 3D printing to VR which is not so much a new technology, but little more than putting a screen really close to your face.

Your understanding of VR is rudimentary at best.

The initial VR labs not only used telepresence gloves and head/eye tracking, they often used bizarre omnidirectional treadmills and the like. Even on a consumer level things were substantially more advanced than that. Hell, I had someone bequeath me one of these two years ago, and it was three years old then:

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Reality-P5-Gaming-Glove/dp/B...

"Little more than putting a screen really close to your face" is a dismissive overview of the sheer amount of widgetry thrown at the problem, only to provide exactly zero consumer adoption.