Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR
Another article on technology in search of a problem to solve. Once again, Silicon Valley just can&#x27;t quite see the human factor in why VR won&#x27;t be this universal technology that everybody uses. Yes, it will have its place, but that place won&#x27;t be in <i>every</i> home.<p>Prolonged stretches of being unable to see the real world, invoking feels of fear, anxiety, and uncertainty are completely alien to those who work in huge, warehouse-sized, empty rooms in secure facilities, trying out what they assume everybody will want to put in their ornately decorated front rooms.<p>There&#x27;s a disconnect between the tech industry and the &quot;real world&quot;, so to speak, and it really makes you appreciate companies who can see the limits of certain technologies in certain domains. Take Apple, working to make AR easy and friendly on iOS; if, one day, VR takes off, then Apple is already prepared with plenty of machine learning and physics frameworks.<p>Until then, they present AR as the next best thing to VR in a safe, controlled, and non-threatening way; we can see the real world very clearly both through our devices and around them, we don&#x27;t need to pay for prescription headsets or eyewear, and we are all free to put our iPhones and iPads away at any time.