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<div id="comment_body_12252145">There is a reason none of these VR interfaces never go anywhere. The human body is not designed to hold it's arms suspended in mid-air for extende dperiods of time.<br> <br>Try it yourself - stick your hands in front of the monitor, a bit below level with your shoulders. Feel free to move them around as if you are "manipulating".<br> <br>Now, see how long you can hold them up there before your shoulders give out.<br> <br>Now compare that to how long you can use a keyboard and mouse in one session.<br> <br>It is not even in the same ballp</div>
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<div id="comment_body_12252311">It is and it isn't. Anytime you try doing some physical activity you are unaccustomed to there will be an adaptation period where you experience fatigue and soreness. Once your muscles have adapted though you hardly notice it at all.<br> <br>If you never take the stairs, try walking down 8 or 10 flights of stairs, the next day your calves will be thrashed, but if you do it every day you won't even notice it a bit.<br> <br>Or try mixing concrete by hand, uber hard labor if it's not something you're used to, but run of the m</div>
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$('#slashboxes').css('top', 0).css('position','sticky').css('right',13);
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