this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2023
263 points (97.1% liked)
Virtual Reality
2009 readers
74 users here now
Virtual Reality - Quest, PCVR, PSVR2, Pico, Mixed Reality, ect. Open discussion of all VR platforms, games, and apps.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
If you think that's dystopian then either you don't know what dystopian means or you don't know what warehouse workers already deal with.
Ive done warehouse work. Using technology to squeeze every inch of "productivity" from a human being rather than trying to meaningfully improve their lives is dystopian.
Forklifts are dystopian, just technology squeezing out more productivity. It would be better to have to carry everything by hand, like nature intended.
That's obviously a false equivalence. Forklifts and manual pickers fulfil different roles in the warehouse. This technology would only be viable to the business if ot drastically increased the expectation on the pickers.
Forklifts also replace physical work. This headset wouldnt.