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Both are not revolutionary, but evolutionary because both category products existed way long ago. I remember watching members of the sailing world cup wearing
by forgottenpaswrd 13y ago
Both are not revolutionary, but evolutionary because both category products existed way long ago.
I remember watching members of the sailing world cup wearing glass equivalents like what, 10 years ago?
First Rift equivalents are like 30 years old or older.
Rift is now riding the wave of affordable and good solid state accelerometers or gyros, created by car and cell phone industries.
- arrrg 13y agoThose products were never successful. They didn't ever matter. Turning a novelty that is unappealing to most people into a mass market product is damn well revolutionary. Not many companies are able to pull that off. (Sometimes that transition is more gradual and evolutionary - I would argue that was the case with digital cameras - but sometimes it's actually a single product that makes this transformation happen. I would say the iPad is the prime example for that. Sometimes it's something between evolution and revolution.) Yes, inventions do matter - but turning mere technology into products people actually want also matters. Both can be evolutionary, both can be revolutionary. Sometimes (though probably rarely) it's possible to do both in one step, often it's not. If the Rift catches on with more than a handful gamers and starts a sustained era of affordable, high quality, low latency head tracking 3D HMDs it will be a revolutionary product - and it doesn't matter even a little bit if something a bit like it existed 30 years ago.