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VR will be like the web. Eventually it will belong to all of us. Once it gets off the ground, no single company will be able to ruin it. Just like touchscreen
by mambodog 13y ago
VR will be like the web. Eventually it will belong to all of us. Once it gets off the ground, no single company will be able to ruin it.
Just like touchscreen smartphones, initially we had the iPhone which is relatively locked down and controlled by a single vendor, but now we have cheap, commoditised hardware of acceptable quality.
More importantly, the real 'platform' for smartphones is the web, which is as open as any we've ever had. Eventually, VR will have something of the same.
I'm glad to see that at least Notch gets it.
- jiggy2011 13y agoI dunno, patents + network effects can give one a pretty damn good head start.
- smacktoward 13y agoThe Web belongs to all of us because the people who invented it made the incredibly generous decision to set it free. (I've written a little about how that decision was made here: http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/05/the-act-of-generosity-that-changed-the-world/ http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/05/the-act-of-generosity-that...) I don't see anybody rushing to put their VR IP into the public domain.
- deerpig 13y agoBut a lot of technologies that could be used for VR, are free, VRML and Web3D, OpenGl etc.