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| Howard_Casto:
Nintendo didn't have a false shortage of Wiis. That's right up there with conspiracy theories like 9/11 was an inside job and the moon landing was faked. For 3 1/2 years Nintendo sold out of the console as fast as they could manufacture it, even after opening additional plants and stream-lining the process. dkerston: Those 60, 70, 80 ect tvs.... they are all showing a 1080p (or less) video, so size is completely irrelevant. The reason you get a big tv, after a certain point, is because you have a big room and you want the picture to look the same from the back. The bigger the tv, the further back you sit from it. That's the biggest issue with the OR actually, it's 1080p display, which is woefully inadequate for a monitor two inches from your eye. The $600 price tag (YIKES!) might mean they have upgraded the display, but more resolution means a beefier machine.... most can't handle 4k atm and remember that two displays for stereoscopic vision means that everything has to be rendered twice in a timely fashion. shpoglefan: It's not technology catching up with the idea, or at least it isn't in the sense that you think it has caught up... it hasn't. You need an ultra high res display when something is that close to the eye and some sort of natural light back-lighting to avoid eye strain. The 600 dollar price tag has been about the going rate all these decades as well. Why? Well if a tv, which is rather large and easy to reliably manufacture costs a reasonable amount, then a 2 inch or less display of the same resolution is going to cost significantly more. It's just common sense. Plus we have cutting edge game consoles that are still struggling to produce a 1080p picture and a vr device needs at least double that. (Again, two monitors). That isn't even addressing nagging issues like the need for motion controls which still aren't 100% perfected, some way to look at reality for the controller, the fact that only one person can view the display at a time, ect..... |
| yotsuya:
Meh, for $500 I can get three hours in a REAL F-1 car instead of sitting in the living room in my underwear pretenting I'm virtually there: http://www.bondurant.com/courses/formulasbondurant |
| yotsuya:
In all seriousness, I'd much rather have a VR experience that takes me to places I CAN'T go in real life, like the moon or an undersea base. |
| pbj:
There isn't some magic resolution that makes people suddenly want this. We would have overlooked the limitations of the displays 20 years ago if there was an experience worth having on these devices. |
| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: pbj on January 06, 2016, 02:57:06 pm ---... if there was an experience worth having on these devices. --- End quote --- That's the key. |
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