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Yeah. You can imagine uses for VR that aren't gaming -- lots of them, actually -- but are people actually going to go for it? I don't know. It may just be a

Yeah. You can imagine uses for VR that aren't gaming -- lots of them, actually -- but are people actually going to go for it? I don't know. It may just be a bridge too far for people, or it may be that they don't think that the advantages of VR per se are sufficient to forsake their screens, or it may be that by the time the technology is finally there and content is created for it, some other shift has come into place. (Oculus Rift feels like it's been right around the corner for like five years now. How long has it actually been? I guess only three years.)

lux 11y ago
Indeed. Originally people predicted it would arrive by last year's holiday season, now we're waiting for Q1 next year, and Q2 for their actual motion controlled input solution. That also makes me wonder how the first gen of sales will go, since Oculus is only shipping with an Xbox controller, dividing us devs on input solutions to target and limiting our options in VR quite heavily at first. Then again, we're waiting til October for HTC/Valve to announce the final consumer Vive, and that'll be out by the end of 2015. And the Vive is quite an amazing experience.
sumitviii 11y ago
>...but are people actually going to go for it? I don't know ~..death would take care of people who didn't know how to type..~ - Steve Jobs
- aetherson 11y ago
  ~iPad sales definitely won't be in strong year-over-year declines within five years~ - probably also Steve Jobs Sometimes people build technologies that just aren't that attractive to people. I stretched a little for the Steve Jobs joke, but it turns out that sometimes you build something, it works, it's even pretty awesome, but a few years later it turns out that smartphones have 6" screens and tablets just seem less useful than they used to. Or sometimes it's worse, and you build Google Wave to revolutionized and unify email, chat, and discussion boards and it turns out that people Just Don't Want your tech.

lux 11y ago

Indeed. Originally people predicted it would arrive by last year's holiday season, now we're waiting for Q1 next year, and Q2 for their actual motion controlled input solution. That also makes me wonder how the first gen of sales will go, since Oculus is only shipping with an Xbox controller, dividing us devs on input solutions to target and limiting our options in VR quite heavily at first. Then again, we're waiting til October for HTC/Valve to announce the final consumer Vive, and that'll be out by the end of 2015. And the Vive is quite an amazing experience.

sumitviii 11y ago

>...but are people actually going to go for it? I don't know ~..death would take care of people who didn't know how to type..~ - Steve Jobs

aetherson 11y ago
~iPad sales definitely won't be in strong year-over-year declines within five years~ - probably also Steve Jobs Sometimes people build technologies that just aren't that attractive to people. I stretched a little for the Steve Jobs joke, but it turns out that sometimes you build something, it works, it's even pretty awesome, but a few years later it turns out that smartphones have 6" screens and tablets just seem less useful than they used to. Or sometimes it's worse, and you build Google Wave to revolutionized and unify email, chat, and discussion boards and it turns out that people Just Don't Want your tech.