VR Could Be More About Film Than Games, Oculus Says

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> outside of that, Give Pixel rift a Try as well. Very cool game for the rift

Morpheus could try that first with Home 2.

<< LINK REMOVED >> what about those advertisments? ... I always took that as a scary Vision of the internet

<< LINK REMOVED >> I think that was one of the ideas that came out, such as a virtual class for those that are handicapped

<< LINK REMOVED >> Your statement is exactly why the chances of VR lasting beyond an initial gasp of awe are slim. You make confident assertions based on your opinion/hype-marketing without seeing the market react. It is complete nonsense. Every fad says it is the next big thing. The next big thing is always the thing no one expected or predicted. VR looks great. I think everyone will be very impressed. But there is no way to know whether people will put it on their desk and never look at it again, or integrate it into their normal routines.

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While I applaud your enthusiasm for VR headsets, I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. TV supplanted radio as a family activity, something adults enjoyed with their families. Even newspapers were inclusive, with news for adults, and comics for kids. Even video games were, in the early days, a social thing, with games designed to be played by more than one person.

That is the main problem with VR now. How does one make something social when it's very design is to cut you off from the outside world? That's the killer app he's talking about. Watching Seinfeld with goggles on will not be it, nor will movies, since those are passive experiences, and VR needs something active.

I used to DM Dungeons & Dragons, and making something that is truly interactive is difficult, because you need something behind every door, you need something in response to every variable. So many times I had to come up with an adventure off the top of my head because instead of going in the castle, they decided to build a raft and float down the river seeking adventure.

Don't lose the faith, but understand that some people will need to see that new experience to believe. And, if history does repeat itself, it will be full of ads and take awhile for somebody to make something truly great.

The question is, how much and will it see the same faith as Kinect?

<< LINK REMOVED >> Well, if they're focusing on the hardware, it doesn't matter that much. Instead of designing a gaming peripheral, they can just design a new way to interact with things in a virtual world, meanwhile someone else can focus on designing things that use it.

The only thing I see about using it in movies, is that it wont really be a movie anymore, it'll just be like moving around a story driven rpg with even less interaction.

At which point they'll make them 'interactive' and advertise how they revolutionised the movie business... By turning it into something that already existed anyway, lol.

<< LINK REMOVED >> Not just films but everything other than Gaming, and from what I've heard, that seems to be the case. All we've been getting from them is "Gaming is what's most important to us" with no further information about what kind of support there will be for gaming on their end, while they constantly boast about how this tech is going to revolutionize virtual reality, when you can use the Oculus to "sit in a room" with someone else and so on and so forth. Once these headsets are out there though, I'm sure unaffiliated devs will be the ones that take it back to it's gaming core.... followed by Oculus/Facebook going "SEEEEEEEE, We told you we care about games".

Is that your new avatar?