I had to command prompt to make decide otherwise. This has been a problem for four, five years, apparently. And they wonder why VR goes nowhere…
Moe Lane
Trust me: I WANTED to get the Sony VR, actually. But it’s not my blessed birthday present.
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.. pretty convinced VR is a technology waitin’ for its’ killer app to show up.
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For most video technologies, they were around a while before launch .. VCRs, for example, were around in TV production long before they hit home-usage… and the “killer app” appears to have been time-shifting, i.e. recording off the antenna (or cable) .. freeing the viewer from the tyranny of the TV guide.
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DVDs mostly followed CDs, helped along by “also plays CDs” tech .. the main problem with DVDs was – there wasn’t a good “I want to record ‘Special Unit 2′ tonight” option .. although that may have been the “killer app” for the MPAA et al.
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So .. what’s the “killer app” for Oculus Rift / Sony VR ? Like video games and VCRs and DVDs, Rule 34 applies .. but is “VR porn” really a killer app? Really?
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I suspect the true “killer” is going to either be “concert / event video” or .. someone coming up with a truly remarkable game. (think: Pong or Pac Man level of cultural impact)
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I also suspect the “concert / event video” is going to be the short-term category-kill. With major league sports trying to figure out how to provide “a fan experience” without opening the stadia, one approach is a mess of well-placed cameras that allow immersive VR *at the stadium* .. which, nicely, also applies to concerts.
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You sit in a comfy chair with your Oculus headset, and can look at the full game from the bleachers at Wrigley or the 9th fairway at Augusta, or the front row for Elton John, all without the risk of getting a sudden beer-bath, and with the ability to *pause* .. *rewind* .. etc. .. and for a hell of a lot less than $200/ticket.
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Just thinkin’ out loud here.
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Mew
Zero to motion sick in under five minutes, guaranteed.
Hard pass.
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There has to be one heck of a lot of improvement with haptic feedback before the promise is realized, and that’s going to be prohibitively expensive. (Like virtual golf courses, actual flight simulators, and shoot/don’t shoot training scenarios currently are.)
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Until that point, augmented reality will dominate over virtual reality. I’m very surprised Pokemon Go hasn’t been outstripped. It was a great proof of concept, but there’s so much more you could do.