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> VR’s killer app ATM

there is no such thing as a 'killer app' "ATM" - a 'killer app' by definition is one that transforms technology/society and that afterwords, we 'cannot do without' (or at least think so) - eg. personal computers+spreadsheet, smartphones+mobile internet, etc.

If a 'killer app' is 'at the moment', it isn't a killer app because there is a 'next' moment, implying that the previous 'killer app' wasn't 'killer' because we can now do without it



That’s exactly what best saber is. I bought an oculus quest purely due to beat saber. Everything else it can do was/is/will be a bonus!


People bought the Wii because they thought it was transformative. Yet people got sick of standing the whole time to play. Same with VR.


If someone lost 40 pounds playing beat saber everyday, wouldn’t that be transformative to them?




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