Did the Wii influence modern VR?

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ArchangelMadzz said:

TheMisterManGuy said:

Regardless of if Motion Control is just one aspect, It's still motion control. The standard controller for VR is essentially a motion controller. It's not dead if its still being used in this area, so Nintendo does deserve some credit for creating a controller design that was ideal for VR, IE, the split-motion controller.

I wouldn't give them credit for the design. 

I'd give them credit for mainstreaming motion controls but by the time VR came out it wasn't mainstream anymore we'd mostly moved on. Only the Move seems to take clear inspiration from Wii controllers as especially the oculus rift is very different. It's difficult to be like 'well there Nintendo goes again changing the industry' when it's kind of like giving the tyre manufacturers a shit tonne of credit for the innovation in a Tesla vehicle. 

Well, your example hits the nail on the head. The Tesla has a lot of innovations that make it possible, including tires. To give the tire-inventors credit for the Tesla would be foolish. But you instead argue that the Tesla doesn't use a tire at all as the tire hype ebbed up years before the Tesla came out.