Oculus Rift Review: VR’s Rising Star Isn’t Ready for the Mainstream
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#2The review read like he was expecting it to be the iphone version of VR. Complaints about using an expensive computer, the cord, having to use muscle memory, etc. come off like the type of person who wouldn't be interested in the Oculus in the first place. While I agree that it looks clunky, really it's the performance that most would-be buyers are interested in.
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#3The review read like he was expecting it to be the iphone version of VR. Complaints about using an expensive computer, the cord, having to use muscle memory, etc. come off like the type of person who wouldn't be interested in the Oculus in the first place. While I agree that it looks clunky, really it's the performance that most would-be buyers are interested in.
The operative word here is "mainstream"
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#4How does it work with glasses? The original DK1 had an awkward set of lenses that you had to place inside the headset.
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#5I always think about the people developing such groundbreaking technology, sweating for years to craft something revolutionary, putting everything you got into a product, just to get some guy from the Wall Street Journal declare that it's not ready for mainstream. A guy that knows nothing of the challenges, the hurdles and quite frankly, nothing of the actual success the produt will actually have.
But just because Wall Street Journal, that person is somewhat a "voice that matters" even though he's just some random columnist, with no experience in the domain and nothing to back it up but his personal opinion and factoids. How annoying that must be.
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#6I always think about the people developing such groundbreaking technology, sweating for years to craft something revolutionary, putting everything you got into a product, just to get some guy from the Wall Street Journal declare that it's not ready for mainstream. A guy that knows nothing of the challenges, the hurdles and quite frankly, nothing of the actual success the produt will actually have. But just because Wa…
I doubt they'd disagree. It's not ready for the main stream. But It is ready for the hardcore niche audience that will build $1000+ dollar machines to power a $600 headset.
All is according to plan.
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#7Many interesting technologies aren't for mainstream users initially. Not everything is a messaging app that can scale to billions of users with dozens of engineers. It is okay to get things right with early adopters before crossing the chasm.
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#8I always think about the people developing such groundbreaking technology, sweating for years to craft something revolutionary, putting everything you got into a product, just to get some guy from the Wall Street Journal declare that it's not ready for mainstream. A guy that knows nothing of the challenges, the hurdles and quite frankly, nothing of the actual success the produt will actually have. But just because Wa…
When you've been deep into R&D and then translating that into a shipping product, it's very easy to not realize that you've been building a product which simply nobody wants or just isn't right.
Not saying that's necessarily the case here, but that's why you often need external pragmatic perspective, like from the WSJ.
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#9The review read like he was expecting it to be the iphone version of VR. Complaints about using an expensive computer, the cord, having to use muscle memory, etc. come off like the type of person who wouldn't be interested in the Oculus in the first place. While I agree that it looks clunky, really it's the performance that most would-be buyers are interested in.
Isn't "the iPhone version of VR" exactly what would be considered mainstream though? That's what took smartphones mainstream as well.
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#10I always think about the people developing such groundbreaking technology, sweating for years to craft something revolutionary, putting everything you got into a product, just to get some guy from the Wall Street Journal declare that it's not ready for mainstream. A guy that knows nothing of the challenges, the hurdles and quite frankly, nothing of the actual success the produt will actually have. But just because Wa…
There's nothing particularly new in this article. All of these criticisms have been obvious for years. Oculus/FB seem as if they don't care and are deliberately targeting hardcore gamers. Presumably they know what they're doing.