I have a bit of a weird question and I apologize if this is the incorrect subreddit for this.
For you to understand the question I have to give you a very quick backstory and explain my situation.
Almost 2 years ago, I got a new job that I very much enjoy and have started making a bit more money than I recently did.
I've been trying for once in my life to get smart about finances so I made out a plan, started budgeting, read multiple books, and even got a financial planner. To skim over everything, for the first time in my life I'm feeling like I might actually be safe and stable for a while. I'm very frugal in most ways, I pay off my credit card debt, mortgage and car payments have never been missed and I have a good credit score.
But for the first time with a bit of disposable income, I wanted to do two things: get healthy and set aside a fund of money for "riskier" investments, as a sort of hobby. I have done minor stuff here and there, generally been mostly basically broke even, maybe an occasional profit but nothing serious. But I'm always watching stuff and reading about them almost out of curiosity. Like a little game or challenge to see if your assessment and predictions become true or not.
So to get healthy I bought a HTC Vive. I heard you move around a bunch, I enjoy gaming, and I loved Sci-Fi movies and books and always thought the idea of VR was cool but it's been disappointing every time I've tried it. So again to skim over, I'm fully on board with this technology. It's fucking insane how much you move. There are some games that I literally can't play for more then 20-30 minutes. I added wrist weights to add to it and I mean it feels like a full on, better than usual workouts at a gym. Both cardio and muscle. It's finally here. It's not the end version, it's a couple off, but it's a couple years, not decades. I keep equating it to my brother this way:
Remember when we got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas when we were kids and it was like one the greatest thing ever at the time? We couldn't BELIEVE the graphics and gameplay of Mario 64. You look at that now, compared to graphics we see today, and it's laughable how simple they are. I feel like the Vive and Rift are the N64 version of VR so within 5-10 years, people are going to go HOLY SHIT, virtual reality is incredible. And it's not just gaming. They have educational experiences. You can do simulators to get over phobias. There are social functions like communities where hang out and chat. I played ping pong with a dude from Bangladash for like 30 minutes the other day, just bullshitting.
So. To my question.
I am in no way wealthy, but I feel secure enough that I'm trying to figure out if there's anyway to actually put in some money into a technology that I believe is going to be literally one of those rare "game changer" technologies. I just can't fucking figure out how to do it. I mean would it be just investing into some stocks of companies like HTC? How can someone, completely on the outside, try to simply financially back a concept like VR but not a specific company per se? I'm just trying to figure out the most reasonable, rational, way that an every day Joe with a fair amount of research but for sure not an MBA or anything can try to take a chance?
Any suggestions would be greatly greatly appreciated. Honestly even something like "take out a loan and hire people to start making VR games or open a VR gymnasium".
And I also do understand that there are LOADS of news articles talking about how unsuccessful VR is or how the companies are this or that. I understand those may be true now, I'm just saying I am buying on the fact that I trust my judgement of the technology as a concept and the future of it, not a SPECIFIC company
Submitted July 29, 2018 at 11:13AM by _Thrillhouse_ https://ift.tt/2K2tYON
