I dont think VR in its traditional visor concept will ever become a mainstream product, mainly because staring at an LCD an inch away from your eyes is incredibly bad for your eyes.
Another point would be, would you actually want to be immersed in a believable gaming exvironment such as resident evil or doom? you hear stories of people getting a little too involved with conventional games, if gaming became so realistic it actually challenged reality, we could be in a very bad situation. Manhunt VR? no thanks!
I cant actually think of a way to take gaming to the next step, even when Nintnedo announced they were using gyro technology nobody could have predicted the wii remote and nunchuck, the net was filled with images of traditional pads with half hearted motion/movement sensors *cough sixaxis*, all a million miles away from the master stroke nintendo were about to pull.
I do believe we could see another shift away from the traditional controller, but how this could be utilised exclusivly i have no idea, im sure some sort of motion tracking eye could be fitted on top of your tv to track your movement 10x more accuratly than the wii remote does, but we get the same issues of traditional games not working with that set up, even more than we do now with the wii itself.
Maybe we wont see anything new for another decade, theres no reason to expect another big shift in the next generation if you look back at history, maybe the remote/nunchuck will just evolve the same way the joystick/joypad has.
One thing im sure of, the next big change wont come from Sony or Microsoft.
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