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kleinbl00 · 3163 days ago · link · · parent · post: Geoffrey A. Fowler: Oculus Rift Review: VR’s Rising Star Isn’t Ready for the Mainstream
Google Glass was impossible to get, too. I know a guy who earned the right to be a "pioneer" and sold his on eBay without opening it. Turned a $500 profit. You still never saw one in the wild. The "there" in "we're there" is stand up comics making jokes about using devices, rather than about the users of the devices. It's memes related to common experience, rather than the other. it's when the conversation shifts from "here's what weirdos do" to "here's what we do." And to hear the boosters talk, we've been "almost there" for nearly as long as we have with fusion breakeven and artificial intelligence. It comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of the problems at hand.