When will all games be virtual reality?

When do you think all games will be virtual reality a la oculus rift? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? What's your best guess?

halo 5 will come with a virtual game helmet.  and attached to the helmet via cable is a real gun.

The next gen of consoles are utilizing virtual reality to the fullest extent. Didn't you follow E3? 

I just want gloves to wear with the OR so I can see my virtual hands.  That's be amazing and useful for a lot of genres, and possibly could aid in the creation of a few new ones.

Never

Never

sukraj

This is correct. Asking a question like this is equivilant to asking "When would all games be in first person?".

Hopefully never.JML897

When do you think all games will be virtual reality a la oculus rift? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? What's your best guess?

jrabbit99

Never, there are to many genres that are impossible to be enjoyed, or even played in 'virtual reality' .

I see a mix of both happening, but the day where the majority will be virtual is way far off from now. Ideally you'd have a device that would be able to read your brainwaves so you would have to move to do every single action, because space issues

Hopefully never

There only a few games that it would help while it could encourage other good game types to stop being made.

Hopefully never. Oculus rift is stupid IMHO

More than 20 years until games are like in a virtual room and you go inside the game.

I really hope that never happens. Games are games.  Not virtual reality.  

[QUOTE="JML897"]Hopefully never.SaintJimmmy

See I wasn't thinking "Lawn Mower Man" with big head sets and a padded cage to keep you from bumping into stuff. I was thinkin more like Joy Makers, laying back, jacked in, almost like a controlled dream. A simulated experience piped directly into your nervous system - I could see that at some point, but it seems way off. The virtual reality of today is little more than a gimmick.

ALL games?  Never.  Some types of games are suited to VR, others no.

Carmack working on the Rift will certainly get us there faster.

I would say in about 30 - 40 years. The shift will be gradual. It's already starting with the Wii, and we will slowly see more motion control until it consists of total. True VR is unsafe, though - I don't think we'll ever change from using a TV or display equivalent (most likely a primitive hologram at this point).Beagle050

Yeah, and that wouldn't forebode well for the future of gaming. You see, a lot of genres literally cannot function in what virtual reality would actually be. If in 30 years all games will be controled in a virtual reality similar to lsh_basic's idea, you'll have to kiss 50 - 60% of video game genres goodbye. Ofcourse, due to the creative, imaginative mind of a human being, that's never going to happen.

That's why a device capable of proper virtual reality (which will happen sooner or later) that may become mainstream, will have a market of a little more than what Kinect has at the moment. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now.. holograms.. that's a totally different thing, and that's what i think will the future 50 years from now, wen its actual visual fidelity reaches what we have now on flat screens. They can even work with 2D design, by just projecting a flat, 2D imagine.

When do you think all games will be virtual reality a la oculus rift? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? What's your best guess?

jrabbit99

hopefully when im dead. i hate the notion of virtual reality

hopefully when im dead. i hate the notion of virtual reality

jsmoke03

I can't wait to play virtual Virtual SkeeballJimmiCottam