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Seems contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian. Even the cheap google cardboard, which ticks all his requirements except 4K (and probably will have that

Seems contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian. Even the cheap google cardboard, which ticks all his requirements except 4K (and probably will have that in the next year), is mindblowing, both to me and friends and family I've shown it to. I didn't even show them games running on cardboard, just videos shot using Google's special 360 cameras. The technical challenges around VR are not that deep, hard, and fascinating. At this point, it's only a matter of prices coming down.

beeboop 11y ago
Even with a 4k phone screen there would be a lot of room for improvement as the Oculus user sees it.
coldtea 11y ago
>Seems contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian. Seems he gave about 2000 words of the concrete reasons he doesn't like it. Heck, he event gave CONCRETE suggestions of things that need improvement. So, no, this is the very opposite of "contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian". >is mindblowing, both to me and friends and family I've shown it to Gimmicks can be mindblowing too. Have you used it for extented periods of time? Would you? And, since there are always outliers, would others bother? Some people were also totally in love with their Google Glass BS, and we know how that turned out in the market.
- kamaal 11y ago
  For some one who is not into gaming, the experience(no matter how horrible to the expert gamer) will seem like the first time some one would have seen Television, used a telephone or used a desktop computer. Its a new thing which the ordinary person hasn't used before, and they will be super thrilled to even get a chance to use it. Heck even the tech crowd was excited about this around 2 years back, how do you expect the ordinary public to not be excited about it? Yeah, there are problems to solve. And once the overall trend moves towards VR, there will be a good enough incentive to bring down prices and have more focussed engineering towards these problems. Beyond all that, Gaming looks like a very small area of application for this kind of a technology.
fixermark 11y ago
No-one has ever accused Jeff Atwood of writing blog posts for the sake of having a blog post to write. ;) That having been said, his description is solid, even if it's only his take on a space he's not specialized in. He makes some good points (and spends several pages to do it, in classic Atwood style).

beeboop 11y ago

Even with a 4k phone screen there would be a lot of room for improvement as the Oculus user sees it.

coldtea 11y ago

>Seems contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian. Seems he gave about 2000 words of the concrete reasons he doesn't like it. Heck, he event gave CONCRETE suggestions of things that need improvement. So, no, this is the very opposite of "contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian". >is mindblowing, both to me and friends and family I've shown it to Gimmicks can be mindblowing too. Have you used it for extented periods of time? Would you? And, since there are always outliers, would others bother? Some people were also totally in love with their Google Glass BS, and we know how that turned out in the market.

kamaal 11y ago
For some one who is not into gaming, the experience(no matter how horrible to the expert gamer) will seem like the first time some one would have seen Television, used a telephone or used a desktop computer. Its a new thing which the ordinary person hasn't used before, and they will be super thrilled to even get a chance to use it. Heck even the tech crowd was excited about this around 2 years back, how do you expect the ordinary public to not be excited about it? Yeah, there are problems to solve. And once the overall trend moves towards VR, there will be a good enough incentive to bring down prices and have more focussed engineering towards these problems. Beyond all that, Gaming looks like a very small area of application for this kind of a technology.

fixermark 11y ago

No-one has ever accused Jeff Atwood of writing blog posts for the sake of having a blog post to write. ;) That having been said, his description is solid, even if it's only his take on a space he's not specialized in. He makes some good points (and spends several pages to do it, in classic Atwood style).