Not exactly virtual reality, but Microsoft has illumiroom in the works which also revolves around enhancing immersion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ4hWa6y710

I'm not saying that everything is for sale. But the reality is that almost everything has a price. It depends what that price is and if somebody is willing to pay it.

Anyway this is going off at a tangent. Didn't create the thread to get into the nitty gritty. I don't think the OR guys would reject an offer to be back by one of the biggest companies in the world and will do a far better job at getting it into people hands.

This would only make sense if OR needed the money. A hot product like that should have investors lining up around the block to pour money in. They don't need Microsoft or an company to buy them out. 

Hey if Microsoft does AR then they could simulate illumniroom. That could be cool.

OT: Rift is great, but it wouldn't take much work for a company like Microsoft to match it. I don't see why they'd buy the company.

You could be right but I think VR is a high risk project. The reaction from gamers has been great but even Ouya created a buzz but failed to make any sort of impact.

Sometimes you need a company with more money, resources and know how to get the product off the ground. If OR isn't carefull it might end up obsolete within years.

What I'm saying is that OR could be worth more to another company, if MS for example came in with a $100M offer it might be to hard to refuse. $100M buy out would take out the risk from the OR guys and be good profit to them while also good value to MS that has the resources to make that $100M investment work.

It's not out of the question for OR to be bought by MS but it all depends how far along MS's VR project is along and if MS are desperate to get in the VR race sooner rather than later.

Doubtful. It was said that Oculus needs more power than both consoles are able to deliver.

There is still the big issue that the xbox one only has 32MB of embedded memory. We see the xbox one struggling with resolution and frame rate and this limitation will be greatly increased when generating VR graphics. The PS4 has a huge technical advantage here.

Xbox one VR will look quite basic and not be competitive with ps4. Just look at 3D support on the ps3 compared to xbox 360. The 360 had a better gpu and 10MB of very fast embedded video memory but once the 360 had exceeded the 10MB it became far more limited with inferior 3D and 1080p support. Then the ps3 had the advantage due to access to 256MB of video memory without the 10MB barrier. Both xbox 360 and one perform at their best if they can keep graphic assets/data like the frame buffer in their embedded fast memory. This time around the ps4 not only has a far superior gpu but increased memory bandwidth too.

Clearly its PC's that really have the power to perform VR well. However Sony provides the hassle free version that also performs to a good level. The difference between VR on ps4 and xbox one will be far wider than the difference between conventional single screen games on ps4 and xbox one.

Whatever your reasons for buying a Xbox one it shouldn't be for future VR support.

"Greatness" awaits.

They are probably working on their own. I dont see why they would need to buy them. It would be an insane risk as the viability of the technology on the market is still in question.

it's not that series. it's just a niche thing at the moment.