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| dkersten:
video games is a multi billion dollar industry, actually a bigger industry than Hollywood, so of course a display device that takes it to the next level will have its focus on games, but who knows where the technology, once as affordable as a 32" LCD, will lead? With all new tech, it will start out with the early adopters as the only ones buying, and the manufacturers barely breaking even on sales. Give it a few years to build a market and manufacturing can go bigger and bring the prices down.. Like I said before, aside from a lens and a strap, the tech is basically the same as a smartphone, so give it time to get every aspect of the hardware on a single chip and the prices will drop significantly.. |
| lilshawn:
xboxes only made money this generation...they sold the previous original and 360 models at a loss and planned to recover their money selling games. http://www.macworld.com/article/1048129/xbox360cost.html the only reason sony and MS made money current gen is cause they are such crap that they basically cost bugger all to produce. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/teardown-reveals-xbox-one-costs-90-more-than-ps4-to-make/1100-6416404/ |
| fallacy:
--- Quote ---or you tech guys, how hard would it be to re-create older games to "mostly" work in VR? If developers could tweak their existing libraries for an decent experience, it would give others the incentive to make games for a truly immersive experience... I would love to play some old doom games in a VR rig--just to see.. --- End quote --- Oculus was founded by John Carmack (Creator of Doom) The first demo to work with Oculus Rift was John Carmack changing the code in Doom BFG to work in the rift. That said you don’t want to play games made for the PC screen in the rift; VR is developing it’s own rules for VR and PC games made for the screen breaks all of them; making for a bad VR experience complete with nausea. For everyone else VR is the future if you played any of the good demos made for the Rif such as “I Expect You To Die” https://share.oculus.com/app/i-expect-you-to-die you would quickly realize all the potential VR has and would not claim it to be a fad. Just about everyone who says it’s a fad has never tried it. It's like trying to explain taste to someone and they come back with ya I smelled it a few times one time 1 time I glanced at it, I basically get the gist and know what I are talking about… no, no you really don’t. |
| lilshawn:
VR requires a very specially designed and crafted game to operate correctly with your brain. trying to shoehorn a regular game into a true 3D environment just does not work right. there is 3D like the crap you get in the movie theatre where you can tell they are intentionally doing things because... 3D then there is 3D where the intention is to immerse you. playing doom quake minecraft whatever is like 3D at the movie theatre. the perspective is all wrong...proportions are off... basically the whole thing looks fake to your brain. who runs all the time at 50 yards a second? who can jump 7 feet in the air? you brain just shuts down when playing these kinds of games in VR because it's so much ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- your brain will literally turn your experience 2d to deal with it. believe me, it happens. games and demos that where designed with VR immersion in mind are just fine. things look right... the proportions are correct. movement is realistic. a new genre of games has to be created. it's not going to appeal to everyone. I pissed around plenty with the DK1 when I bought it...made a handfull of demos, played a pile more...but I'm glad I sold it when I did. if these companies don't get off their ass and create content (because that is 9/10ths of the battle here not the hardware) it won't matter WHO has the better system or the cheaper system or the fastest whatever... no content means NOBODY will use them. |
| Howard_Casto:
Yup it's all about software, like I've said multiple times in this thread. The video games industry, as a whole at least, is more conservative than it's ever been in it's entire history. That means companies aren't willing to invest time and money on experimental hardware and games. Understand that Sony and Microsoft are massive companies. Yeah they have vr hardware in the works, but they have 20 or 30 other things in the works as well. They show this stuff off at tech conferences to see if any companies are willing to bite. It doesn't mean they are going to make actual games for the thing or even release it. Look how little support the Kinect got from Microsoft and the pseye/ps move rig from Sony. The only hope in VR happening, like any innovation in video games since the 80's, comes from Nintendo. Again, like I've said multiple times in this thread, they are the only company crazy/brave enough to go all in and design a system around mandatory VR and they make the bulk of the games on their systems in-house so there is a greater level of confidence from consumers if they make a system that it will actually be supported. Some people have guessed that the "NX" in the Nintendo NX stands for "new experience". So there is a very slight chance that VR might happen. Myself I don't see them doing that considering the Wii U's sales, but you never know. Rest assured though, it probably isn't coming from Microsoft or Sony and Facebook doesn't even make games. |
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