I'm not sure the issue is technical, I think it might be business. Doesn't seem to be that there's a non niche use case for it.
If you take the actual words Virtual Reality and think about it, we already have that. Alternative worlds where you do stuff like fight monsters. The social element of that is already well served with traditional screens, and you don't really need to be able to be in it 3D for it to be engaging, because other people have engaged us since the beginning of time. Specific worlds like WoW or EVE are also popular because they're specific, one is fantasy, the other is sci fi. An unspecific world that kind of just looks like reality, what is it even? Who will go there?
Something like surgery that is on all the Meta adverts, maybe. I'm not a surgeon so I can't tell for sure, but it would seem to me that an already high value activity like that has already found all the educational materials it needs to let surgeons learn and practice their craft. A VR version world be nifty but how much is the value added over whatever surgeons are currently doing? So it might come but it will come because it gets cheaper due to general investment, not because the doctors really need it.
If you take the actual words Virtual Reality and think about it, we already have that. Alternative worlds where you do stuff like fight monsters. The social element of that is already well served with traditional screens, and you don't really need to be able to be in it 3D for it to be engaging, because other people have engaged us since the beginning of time. Specific worlds like WoW or EVE are also popular because they're specific, one is fantasy, the other is sci fi. An unspecific world that kind of just looks like reality, what is it even? Who will go there?
Something like surgery that is on all the Meta adverts, maybe. I'm not a surgeon so I can't tell for sure, but it would seem to me that an already high value activity like that has already found all the educational materials it needs to let surgeons learn and practice their craft. A VR version world be nifty but how much is the value added over whatever surgeons are currently doing? So it might come but it will come because it gets cheaper due to general investment, not because the doctors really need it.