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I have three kids for the record. And trust me, if VR isn't doing a good job of making a believable aliens-are-destroying-your-house game, it isn't going to be

I have three kids for the record. And trust me, if VR isn't doing a good job of making a believable aliens-are-destroying-your-house game, it isn't going to be any more believable when it is just rendering your house with bigger rooms. That's the problem.

jonstokes 11y ago
I totally disagree. I would have taken that crappy media room demo home and (along with another headset for my wife) right then and there, for the simple reason that as crude as it was it totally scratched the itch of "watch TV in a dedicated room in the house with no kid stuff anywhere." FWIW I agree with you about the technical stuff -- the resolution has to go way up. But it will. Again, the tradeoff is not "do I buy this megabuck Windows PC for VR gaming, or do I just stick with a console?" The tradeoff is, "do I pay a bunch of money to knock a wall out and/or redecorate, or do I buy this VR rig and some DLC from virtualcelebritycribs.com and call it a day."
- gspetr 11y ago
  Not sure I'm buying into orders of magnitude of people visiting a "60's cafe in Paris". Just who, for example, is going to design said cafe that few people alive (You'd have to be 65+ years old, and that's being very generous) even remember? Don't see that use case gaining a traction so massive. What you described seems to be more of a Mind Machine Interface variety than a VR one.
- kefka 11y ago
  It also does something else. It makes smaller apartments even easier to live in. Suddenly my 400 sq. ft. studio is not small, but now very spacious. In fact it's as big as I want it. Virtual, of course, but that makes tight living spaces livable. Perhaps, it can even be applied to tiny houses movement. 150 sq.ft. is now reasonable, as long as I stay in the VR area. Given that many of the younger generation rent, I would surmise that reasonably priced VR will make rents go up even further, because small spaces will be in demand. And I'd also think the hikkomori trend from Japan will be exported to the rest of the world, as well.

jonstokes 11y ago

I totally disagree. I would have taken that crappy media room demo home and (along with another headset for my wife) right then and there, for the simple reason that as crude as it was it totally scratched the itch of "watch TV in a dedicated room in the house with no kid stuff anywhere." FWIW I agree with you about the technical stuff -- the resolution has to go way up. But it will. Again, the tradeoff is not "do I buy this megabuck Windows PC for VR gaming, or do I just stick with a console?" The tradeoff is, "do I pay a bunch of money to knock a wall out and/or redecorate, or do I buy this VR rig and some DLC from virtualcelebritycribs.com and call it a day."

gspetr 11y ago
Not sure I'm buying into orders of magnitude of people visiting a "60's cafe in Paris". Just who, for example, is going to design said cafe that few people alive (You'd have to be 65+ years old, and that's being very generous) even remember? Don't see that use case gaining a traction so massive. What you described seems to be more of a Mind Machine Interface variety than a VR one.
kefka 11y ago
It also does something else. It makes smaller apartments even easier to live in. Suddenly my 400 sq. ft. studio is not small, but now very spacious. In fact it's as big as I want it. Virtual, of course, but that makes tight living spaces livable. Perhaps, it can even be applied to tiny houses movement. 150 sq.ft. is now reasonable, as long as I stay in the VR area. Given that many of the younger generation rent, I would surmise that reasonably priced VR will make rents go up even further, because small spaces will be in demand. And I'd also think the hikkomori trend from Japan will be exported to the rest of the world, as well.