@sirk1264 said:
@Gatygun: you are right VR is expensive but I believe it will get cheaper over time. Oculus just dropped the price of the rift plus touch bundle to 600 dollars which is only a 100 more than the PSVR bundle. However you still need to build a decent computer which can be pretty expensive and you would still need to buy a PS4 if you don't have one. I have a rift and it doesn't feel uncomfortable at all. It isn't heavy either. And what worse flaws does it have compared to 3D? My experience has been flawless.
Price isn't it's main issue. The tech itself is which is flawed.
The screen needs to be bolted on your head, there is no way to communicate with other people visually, there is no way to check your mobile or other things around you. It's also extremely bad for your eyes to have 2 screens burning on your eye lids for hours long without outside light. It a next step on 3D in every way on negative impacts.
3D biggest flaw was it's glasses. Nobody wants them, then the eye strain or headics from having objects poke into your brain 24/7 for a lot of people didn't work.. VR is just a step further on it and not even on a possitive way.
I already predicted 3D to fail hard, because that tech was utterly flawed in every way. then VR popped up which made the same mistakes but enhanced it another 10 times.
Even if VR was free, it would still not be picked up by most people or avoided because of this very reason. Because VR on mobile is practically free already. Yet not much people will adopt it.
All the implementations that i see for it, just feel unnatural or going out of the way to showcase something that could have been done easier and faster otherwise.
VR will work if:
1) i don't have to trap a device on my head
2) it completely replaces my desktop monitor or tv screen for gaming with as much support as a normal screen would have
3) its the same price range, and has no negative performance impact t.o.v. another screen.
4) it allows me to move in a space without falling over or being hindered or having issue's with orientating in my own home ( wireless absolute must )
5) makes me able to communicate on the fly with friends next towards me or other people around me
6) doesn't burn my eye balls in
Sadly, this isn't going to happen, because the tech simple isn't going to give this.
VR is your next 3D hype fed by struggling technology company's that try to get sales moving with new technology. It's not a improvment forwards from screen tech. And it will therefore not be standard or something people will still be using in a couple of years.
It also is heavily handicapped by software support much like 3D was.
It can be used for specfic type of solutions, same goes for 3D but frankly that's not what's going to sell it's tech to the masses and therefore become absolete for those company's.
The real tech i see moving forwards = holograms. and frankly we won't see that anytime soon.
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