I still have my Nintendo virtual boy from 1996. It was discontinued and someone bought it for me for a steep discount, around $20.
When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet
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Re: When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet
#22I wonder how many people, like me, tried it on a friend's equipment and found that the motion sickness is just impossible to get past.
I had motion sickness when I tried the early first-person shooters, but got over it when I learned to keep the (non-moving) screen bounds in mind. That' just impossible in VR, and when the motion in my eyes doesn't match my vestibular system, wow, it's bad.
Sigh... some of the games were amazing.
Re: When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet
#23I think it would have had Oculus not been owned by a shitty company. I have a hard time directly giving FB money. I'm not going to reward FB for anything.
Yes and no. Without FB Oculus would already be dead. With FB it keeps being a niche.
Re: When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet
#24Technology is not the problem. Flashback to 1995. I'm a 17 year old PFY invited to beta test a VR headset from a local company. My Uncle was an investor and I was technically savvy and the target market. I had a copy of Descent that supported VR, and while it was a bit of a hassle to get setup, I got it working. The experience was incredible. After the first use I said to myself "this is the future". I had permission…
There are all kinds of technological solutions to that: Both have headsets (used to be a cost issue, gradually getting solved) and play the same thing. Or one has AR glasses and can peek into what the other is doing and communicate with them. An internal camera captures the face under the headset and presents it on the outside with correct parallax (could be presented with AR or with auto stereo display), AI in the h…
We’re talking about widespread adoption of consumer technology. Everything you just mentioned is a niche workaround, and to be blunt, not very good ones. Sure, there are always going to be people who love VR, and it’s really cool! But there’s no way it becomes as popular as TVs or smartphones.
Re: When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet
#25I think mobile phones will become the standard VR devices most people will opt to use with a headset that you insert the phone into, esp as phones become increasingly advanced, due to it being the cheapest option for most people.
Re: When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet
#26Technology is not the problem. Flashback to 1995. I'm a 17 year old PFY invited to beta test a VR headset from a local company. My Uncle was an investor and I was technically savvy and the target market. I had a copy of Descent that supported VR, and while it was a bit of a hassle to get setup, I got it working. The experience was incredible. After the first use I said to myself "this is the future". I had permission…
“ There is no amount of technology that can get over this problem.”
Wouldn’t each person in the room having a VR head seat solve this problem?
Re: When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet
#27Technology is not the problem. Flashback to 1995. I'm a 17 year old PFY invited to beta test a VR headset from a local company. My Uncle was an investor and I was technically savvy and the target market. I had a copy of Descent that supported VR, and while it was a bit of a hassle to get setup, I got it working. The experience was incredible. After the first use I said to myself "this is the future". I had permission…
I was playing VR shovelware and pavlov pretty regularly for a while, we just put mirror the game to the monitor so the spectators can spectate, and the headphones float off the ear a couple inches so they can hear us.
It helps to have at least two friends for that scenario. for Just one friend you're probably better off playing a non-vr game and trading the controller.
these days we're farther apart and one friend has a child so he's worried about covid. we play "ghosts" (Phasmophobia) once in a while.
in summary: 2 friends required (minimum) mirror the screen headphones off the ear
Re: When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet
#28The quest 2 is pretty much a revelation. Untethered, light, cheap, high quality display and inside out tracking and connects wirelessly to a gaming PC allowing you to play virtually any title if you pay $15 for vrdesktop. Obviously you have to be comfortable with facebook but it's just a better end to end experience than any other headset I've tried, although it would be better if VR desktop or something similar was included out of the box instead of them trying to flog you the kludgy occulus link cable that doesn't work as well and which tethers you to a pc. It feels like VR done right for the first time in the same way as the iPhone was a smart phone done right for the first time.
Re: When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet
#29Never, it will forever be a niche product. It doesn't solve almost any problem better than what we actually have but keep the mind engaged in the future of virtual reality.
VR is the flying car of software: so amazing to imagine, so impractical in real life.
Re: When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet
#30I think it would have had Oculus not been owned by a shitty company. I have a hard time directly giving FB money. I'm not going to reward FB for anything.
For non-tech people they think the exact opposite. Facebook is a name they know and understand.