Just less adventure

For the most part, people seem so wrapped up in things that something new is just unappealing. The average person just does not care unless something like peer pressure forces them into changing the status quo.

It’s the early adopters that make way for everyone else. I don’t view less adventures types of people to be overly suspicious of new things they just don’t have a high tolerance to risk and rather have others lay the ground work. Why pay the high price and be the genie pig when others can be? You still get to enjoy it at some point if things work out.

The real early adopters

A while back I noticed a group of people trying out virtual reality (VR) in a sensory deprivation tank. Where they nerds? You bet! Sensory deprivation tanks have been around for forever so naturally, someone would have come up with the idea to use a more recent technology of VR in one. As it stands I would consider it to be rather exclusionary because there are a few barriers to entry.

First are being you need to have access to a sensory deprivation tank. Second, you need access to VR headset. The first one you can find a place to rent an hour and hope they don’t catch what you are trying to do and kick you out. The second one you would need own the VR headset because who in their right mind would lend you is going risk water damage like that.

In a year from now, I’m sure someone will finally say hey I have the money and the will to make that a company if it’s not already a thing. It will become more mainstream since the cost will be down to just renting and places will allow you to do so. Will the first few people renting something already set up in that matter call themselves “early adopters?” I know they will because they think they are. The truth is people who think they are early adopters are no one near being early enough.They are just there before it becomes a way too mainstream and commercialized.

Exclusionary

With that in mind, I would have to say yes new things are very exclusionary. Even more so if you are the only person or company on the planet working on it in a lab trying to find a commercial purpose for it. Once the public finds out about it, it's not exclusive anymore and it's already outdated so not new either lol.