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Seek_Treasure t1_iy4psqj wrote

Reply to comment by World_May_Wobble in Why is VR and AR developing so slowly? by Neurogence

That's not true, fuel efficiency (and range) in commercial aviation has improved a lot in past few decades.

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World_May_Wobble t1_iy4qkvi wrote

Has it? How many doublings has the range of airliners undergone in the last 40 years?

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Seek_Treasure t1_iy4rd90 wrote

About 2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft

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World_May_Wobble t1_iy4tufx wrote

Likewise airfare seems to have halved at least once.

It's not transformational, and we'd be disappointed if the biggest improvement in VR between now and 2050 was that it was cheaper -- but it is something.

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Seek_Treasure t1_iy4uulu wrote

Airplanes will transition to electric eventually. There's some really hard challenges to this, but the progress is being made. More immersive VR and true usable AR will come. There's some really hard challenges to solve (some, like batteries and heat are shared with aviation), but the progress is there. It's not just hardware, software also helps. For example, fast ML computer vision for eye tracking helps foveated rendering, and we're far from done here.

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