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> The other thing that wasn't so evident by this video is that everyone you were taking to would have to be wearing Hololenses, so it will still be a bit awkward.

I remember seeing the guy who invented the selfie stick present it to Canada's Dragon's Den: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw7YbcoCkbs. My reaction was: this is ridiculous and stupid. Nobody will ever use that let alone buy it.

Let's just say I was slightly wrong.

Not only that, but people go crazy over VR. This will take off, I'm sure.

https://quikpod.com/quik-pod-selfie-stick-cbc-dragons-den-20...

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You're sure it will take off. But at the same time you confess that you are very bad at predicting these kind of things. So, not sure what you're saying.

> So, not sure what you're saying.

That naysayers are usually wrong.

Though most things fail... So bettering against something is generally a good bet.

I said that sinxoveretothex_atThatTime was wrong.

The reason I dismissed the product then was because of the aesthetics. The same reason that my parent commenter pointed to to suggest holoportation wouldn't work.

I gave the example of VR. I can also give the example of "portable" phones and "portable" computers (have you seen how fugly those things were back then?). Or bluetooth earpieces.

That being said, I'm not predicting the end of in-person meetings or anything remotely like that. I wrote too candidly when I wrote "this will take off". Let's just say that we'll see more and more of that type of technology in the future.

I expect this to reach Bluetooth earpieces level of ubiquitousness: not quite without haters and not quite everyone-has-one, but rather everyone-knows-someone-who-uses-one kind of thing.

Here is something that never took off. And never will despite the popularity of this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtANPtnhyg

The difference? Selfie stick does exactly what it says it does and isn't more awkward, lowres, latency prone or difficult to use than a normal person would expect.

Unfortunately it's blocked in the UK "This video contains content from BBTV_SonyPictures, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

this is an alternative video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzu_5xd-AlM

That dragon's den episode is baffling. The guy's reason for not licensing it to other companies is baffling. His valuation is baffling. I could practically feel them trying to not look too eager to take his 30% while calmly forcing out the words.

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