[saladuh]

It has literally nothing to do with the metaverse or virtual offices. It's a productivity device. While I don't think it's something I want, plenty of people like the idea of having 6+ monitors which take up the space of less than one (at the expense of having to wear it on your face). They're also marketing it as being useful for remote work, so instead of taking your laptop with you with one screen, you take this headset and you've got your whole multi monitor desktop with you. Bit more clunky because you need to carry a separate mouse + keyboard (keeb with a trackball/trackpad on it), but for certain people that's worth it.

[jarcane]

I know some of those people with 6+ hi-res monitors and a huge part of the appeal has to do with how much screen space you get out of that many screens, and I see nothing of this tech that gets anywhere close to what any of their setups can do, for the simple reason that VR headsets just don't have the resolution.

Have you ever tried to browse the web on a headset? I have. Even with the highest resolution available it was still a dismal, squinty experience, and actually trying to so much as type a URL was an exercise in frustration.

[georgewsinger]

One of the founders of Simula here. Thank you for your comment.

We're about to update our website (www.simulavr.com) with pictures of our prototype, pricing information, and a blog.

The first blog post's working title is "We don’t want to socialize in a Metaverse; we just want a productive VR computer". Here's a draft of it: https://gist.github.com/georgewsinger/611767c7a5dd63a12f1d93...

TLDR: The Metaverse is jamming VR through the framing of "giant social network". Maybe this isn't entirely bad, but to us what's exciting about the technology is its potential as a "Tool for Thought", or something which can help us create new things and get more stuff done in ways previously unimaginable.