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OdinHades on 24 September 2015

Oh, sorry, but I don't know where I put the 360! I think it's somewhere in the basement. =D

I'll get an Xbox One sometime later this year anyway, I'll just accept when that happens, sometime in december I believe.



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JRPGfan on 24 September 2015
Justagamer said:
rolltide101x said:

I do not think so, I expect it to go the way of 3D tvs


3d tv was bigger than vr will ever be.


imo:  VR for gameing  >>>>>>>>  3D effects + glasses for TV.



rolltide101x on 24 September 2015
Justagamer said:
rolltide101x said:

I do not think so, I expect it to go the way of 3D tvs


3d tv was bigger than vr will ever be.

Probably true lol



rolltide101x on 24 September 2015
JRPGfan said:
Justagamer said:


3d tv was bigger than vr will ever be.


imo:  VR for gameing  >>>>>>>>  3D effects + glasses for TV.

That is true, but VR is not much better and will fail due to high cost of ownership



OnlyForDisplay on 24 September 2015

Personally, while I do like the various ways VR can further increase a gaming experience, I do not see it as a viable permanent solution to the traditional style of gaming. Keyboard/mouse and controller most likely is going to be the mainstay for the foreseeable future.



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Normchacho on 24 September 2015
rolltide101x said:
JRPGfan said:


imo:  VR for gameing  >>>>>>>>  3D effects + glasses for TV.

That is true, but VR is not much better and will fail due to high cost of ownership


Bad comparison. For one, VR is way better than 3d tv as an experience and as a product. Two, 3D tv was also crazy expensive to get into. You needed a special TV, a special blu ray player, special glasses, and special movies.

 

That, and the support for 3d tv was just never there.



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JRPGfan on 24 September 2015
OnlyForDisplay said:
Personally, while I do like the various ways VR can further increase a gaming experience, I do not see it as a viable permanent solution to the traditional style of gaming. Keyboard/mouse and controller most likely is going to be the mainstay for the foreseeable future.


You can use the controller without looking at it.

Its staying, and will work fine with a VR headset.



melbye on 24 September 2015

I hope he is right, mostly because i can't use it



Eddie_Raja on 24 September 2015

Yeah I'm surprised lol - if it is MS is massively behind.

A true fan of tech shouldn't care because whatever the future is, it will be the future because it is better than the past (in general).



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HollyGamer on 24 September 2015
DirtyP2002 said:
HollyGamer said:
DirtyP2002 said:
Normchacho said:


I never really got how you would use AR for gaming...I mean, the game world would be limited by the space you're physically in.


Forza Vista in your living room for example.
Get your RPG character standing next to you while you check your armor, weapons or whatever
Make the whole wall your screen
Use your coffee table as a board for a map editor or forge mode in Halo
Call tactics in madden / Fifa / NHL / NBA on a pitch in front of you

And that is just what came to my mind in the first 4 minutes.

AR  for casual and familly games, VR in other hand for immersive experience and hardcore and mainstream games period.


What has this to do with casual / hardcore?

VR as it is now, is like a giant screen in front of you.
AR seems like an evolution or the next step above VR.

But we are still losing the main point: Porn will be great on AR!

With your logic, if Master chief coming out from your TV and save the day by shooting your table and furniture is more hardcore and mainstream then when you were on Master Chief world and becoming him self and save the day, is fine by me.  Mean while general consensus will say the other way arround.  AR when it's finish with the development will not imitate HOLODECK from Starwars (it will not even close to what Micrisoft Promise with their Hollolens Ad on youtube

Mean while VR for gamer, people already new the limitation and understand it will not like in the matris or scifi movie , and they already fully embrace the limitations. So for now what i understand from your view of point is that " I want Microsoft to be succes while SONY to be the Loser here " lol,  I am my self jealous with Holo deck, but i like and want Microsoft success.  AR and VR is different and both trying to be different, i like casual gaming and hardcore gaming both and they can co exist together. So if you smart you will support both , not because VR is SONY and AR is Microsoft.