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I've been thinking about this for a while, but I'm going to write down my prediction so in years to come I can point back to this post and say I saw it coming.
by SimonPStevens 11y ago
I've been thinking about this for a while, but I'm going to write down my prediction so in years to come I can point back to this post and say I saw it coming.
Prediction here -> They will make a VR version of this sports stadium app. It will become the biggest use case for VR (outside of geek circles).
Social sports viewing is VR's 'killer app'. It is what will take VR mainstream, and I believe it's the main reason for Facebook's purchase of oculus.
Imagine a VR sports stadium where users can sit in their own lounge, with their VR headset on, next to a avatar of each of their friends, who are in their own lounges. Everyone can have the best seat in the house. The virtual capacity of the stadium is physically unbounded. The VR adds the atmosphere that watching the TV doesn't provide. It also avoids the major VR problem of how to move around in the virtual world, because you don't have to. In the VR world you are sitting in a seat, just like in the real world.
Perhaps in many years time, no one will physically attend sporting events at all.
- unknownzero 11y agoIf this was a real non gimmick thing it would absolutely the thing that got me to buy a VR setup. I can't say I like the drawn out conclusion of nobody ever attending in person though. I wouldn't want to see a world where nobody ever showed up to hockey games in real life, that just seems sad and dystopian to me.
- rickdale 11y agoThats actually a pretty popular prediction. I remember back in 2008 talking about virtual reality seats at the 50 yard line of the super bowl. It's probably right. I would love to put on VR and play the last set at Wimbledon. I am a dreamer...
- piptastic 11y agoWait a decade or so after that and the games themselves will be played in VR.
- spike021 11y agoNot so sure about this opinion actually. Whenever I go to baseball games at AT&T Park in San Francisco, there's just something about the energy in the stadium, the sights of the park and surrounding area+views, the "different" (using that word loosely here) food, the cold foggy/windy night games, etc. You can get there early and try to get autographs, which not everybody is into but it's a cool benefit. You have a chance of catching foul or homerun balls. I think using a VR version of this app would definitely be better than TV, but I wouldn't necessarily say it becomes any more of a comparatively better experience. I don't think it can quite match watching a game live and at the stadium itself.
- pionar 11y agoThe smells, the cold beer (ballpark beer "tastes" different than regular beer.
- spike021 11y ago"True" VR could maybe.. just maybe simulate the full extent of that kind of experience, but I think we're very far off from that.
- qq66 11y agoIt doesn't need to be better than the stadium, it's competing with the TV. And in many ways, it can be better than both... Imagine being able to watch the game from the perspective of the baseball itself!
- spike021 11y agoWith respect to just competing with TV, then I agree. I think my original comment was directed more at how the OP made it sound like it would replace the need/reason to actually go to the stadium for a live game.
- smanuel 11y agoJust like Second Life killed real world conferences. [1] Spoiler Alert. It didn't. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/education/mortarboard/2008/nov/11/highereducation-secondlife http://www.theguardian.com/education/mortarboard/2008/nov/11...
- realworldview 11y agoWhat's VR?