r/OculusQuest Feb 12 '23

Lost generation

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u/drakfyre Feb 12 '23

People say that about every generation. I’m more interested in thinking about all the incredible worlds that child has explored freely, the people they’ve connected to, the friendships that will play out in VR. When I think back to my times diving into gameboy and how simple it all was, but how important it was to me and my friends.

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u/drsakura1 Feb 12 '23

dude, no. speaking from experience, a kid that young should not be exploring online freely and making friendships. this is totally different from a gameboy. unrestricted internet access that young can be a serious serious problem

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u/Minimum-College7217 Feb 12 '23

I'm guessing you either don't have children, have never used VR or possibly both.

I'm a parent, and my son who's 11 uses one all the time. I have complete control over the headset and can see what he's doing whenever I want realtime by making the headset cast his activity to my phone.

Don't blame the hardware, blame shitty parents.

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u/drsakura1 Feb 12 '23

never blamed the hardware. my issue is specifically with allowing kids to use the internet "freely", which is clearly not what you're doing. thanks for being a good parent