well, this week, the bbc, in partnership with ipsos mori, has published research into the reality of reality. 16 ordinary people were given samsung gear vr headsets for three months, and asked to use them in their free time at home. and for any long—term observers of tech, the results probably aren't surprising. let's start with the sheer faff. actually finding your headset in the first place, it might be shoved in a drawer or somewhere, under your bed, dust it off, it might be dirty, it might not be totally clean. getting your phone and putting it into the headset, if you have a mobile—driven vr headset, and making sure that the phone has high battery because that will often be drained very quickly. finding a piece of content to actually watch, the phone might overheat and the experience will then stop. you might be a family, friends or flatmates pranking you as you are doing it so you will feel self—conscious. your hair might be messed up, or your make up, whatever. and all of those various barriers come to be quite significant behavioural hurdles to get people to do this. these th

well, this week, the bbc, in partnership with ipsos mori, has published research into the reality ofhe results probably aren't surprising. let's start with the sheer faff. actually finding your headset in the first place, it might be shoved in a drawer or somewhere, under your bed, dust it off, it might be dirty, it might not be totally clean. getting your phone and putting it into the headset, if you have a mobile—driven vr headset, and making sure that the phone has high battery because that will often be drained very quickly. finding a piece of content to actually watch, the phone might overheat and the experience will then stop. you might be a family, friends or flatmates pranking you as you are doing it so you will feel self—conscious. your hair might be messed up, or your make—up, or whatever. and all of those various barriers come to be quite significant behavioural hurdles to get people to do this. these things just aren't ready for prime time yet. they are not easy to use and they are not easy to share. for example, as soon as i take this off my head, it switches off to save

well, this week, the bbc, in partnership with ipsos mori, has published research into the reality oflong—term observers of tech, the results probably aren't surprising. let's start with the sheer faff. actually finding your headset in the first place, it might be shoved in a drawer or somewhere, under your bed, dust it off, it might be dirty, it might not be totally clean. getting your phone and putting it into the headset, if you have a mobile—driven vr headset, and making sure that the phone has high battery because that will often be drained very quickly. finding a piece of content to actually watch, the phone might overheat and the experience will then stop. you might be a family, friends or flatmates pranking you as you are doing it so you will feel self—conscious. your hair might be messed up, or your make—up, or whatever. and all of those various barriers come to be quite significant behavioural hurdles to get people to do this. these things just aren't ready for prime time yet. they are not easy to use and they are not easy to share. for example, as soon as i take this off my