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Not really, mobile exploded immediately (in the early nineties), and kept expanding (with the smartphone boom).
As someone who developed WAP sites for mobile phones, I remember it differently. Also, in the "Early 90's," state of the art was an AMPS Motorola bag phone on Cellular One.
Not the same as mobile itself being a hype for any period of time.
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Not really, mobile exploded immediately (in the early nineties), and kept expanding (with the smartphone boom).
Early 90s isnt an explosion by a long shot.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LyjMpXpsnyI/TZWzzCflQiI/AAAAAAAAP_...
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As someone who developed WAP sites for mobile phones, I remember it differently. Also, in the "Early 90's," state of the art was an AMPS Motorola bag phone on Cellular One.
WAP was just a failed technology for mobile. Not the same as mobile itself being a hype for any period of time.
I bootstrapped a VR company (1) after leaving a high paying CMO job. I put in around $100k, we released three games, one got some funding from HTC, we were shown at GDC, SIGGRAPH, VRLA, etc. We hit around 2,700 MAU before my co-founder tapped out after no salary for two years. I took six months off from VR to go back to a normal job that paid well. That got acquired (in a very non-meaningful way, at least for me) in…
Like you I think the Quest will change everything. I feel that it has to, at this point, for VR momentum to break through. Do you think Oculus will dominate the space in the coming decade? I can't help but be reminded of Sense/Net from Neuromancer as a potential VR-only business with massive upside and potential (userbase in the hundreds of millions if not billions) that can be done _today_ if VR headset proliferatio…
Have you read The History of the Future (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062455966) yet?
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>mobile exploded immediately (in the early nineties) The only people I knew who had cell phones in the early nineties were my rich uncle and Zack Morris.
That was because of high early adopter price. Not because "huh, why would I want one" given the price being alright.
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Early 90s isnt an explosion by a long shot.
Actually it was just that. A continuous growth from 100M 1990 to 1B in 2000 and onwards: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LyjMpXpsnyI/TZWzzCflQiI/AAAAAAAAP_...
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> PSVR is unironically the hope for VR right now, even though it has by far the lowest quality. For me it's the upcoming Oculus Quest. I've been refreshing /r/oculusquest daily, hoping to get a release date or a way to reserve it.
My big hope for the Quest is that they'll say "Surprise! The USB-C port isn't just charging, it also supports VirtualLink alternate mode!" Would be great to have one device that can operate as both a standalone device and be connected to a computer for more graphically intense experiences than the Quest's snapdragon hardware can provide. IIRC it's running at a lower framerate than a Rift does, but it'd still be cool…
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Getting a headset needs to be stupid simple. The Oculus as someone else mentioned rrquires 3 - 4 USB cables. What!? Regular non geeks dont have time for that. It should hook up to a single hub via USB C now that its a thing and do the rest wirelessly not necessarily BlueTooth since that can be unreliable. Whatever Logitech has been doing for their keyboards and mice seems efficient when BlueTooth fails their dongle j…
At the moment inside-out 6DOF tracking isn't millimeter accurate, so we require additional hardware. Oculus uses cameras which is where the USB requirement is from, and Vive requires laser beaming stations (no USB required). Hopefully we can get rid of this extra hardware in the next few iterations.
SteamVR tracking might have some advantages if you want lots of tracked objects (that may be outside the headset's field of view) but it seems like good-enough inside out tracking will be widely available this year.
I bootstrapped a VR company (1) after leaving a high paying CMO job. I put in around $100k, we released three games, one got some funding from HTC, we were shown at GDC, SIGGRAPH, VRLA, etc. We hit around 2,700 MAU before my co-founder tapped out after no salary for two years. I took six months off from VR to go back to a normal job that paid well. That got acquired (in a very non-meaningful way, at least for me) in…
I've done some VR development and room VR is amazingly good at conveying scale and space. I was mostly dabbling with architecture and vehicles. When people are finished and take off the VR headset there's often a double-take because they forgot how small of a room they were in. It works for assessing scale and space in ways a video, picture, or diagram can't. It's the kind of difference that makes people order doll furniture off Amazon--something that would never happen if you bought it in store.
Other comments on here talked about how game changing Google Earth VR is. Not just for entertainment, but for surveying and planning outings.
The business market has its own problems and demands, though.
