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nitekrawler1285 on 08 June 2014
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Intrinsic said:

nitekrawler1285 said:

1. Many users even those that don't wear glasses were not comfortable with the size and shape of slightly heavy 3D sunglasses. These helmets only exacerbate that issue by several orders of magnitude and add new ones completely cutting you off from your view of your surroundings.

2. Even if Sony can eek out a $200 Morpheus(which I don't think they can) You'll also need a 60 dollar camera so that's already 260 which is expensive. 

 

  1. VR headsets dont work that way. There is enough space within the head set for people with glasses and cutting off your view of you rsurroundings is exactly what its designed to do. Even light from your surroundings filtering into the headset breks the experience. The whole point of VR is that it actually becomes your surroundings (hence the name). Its supposed to replce your reality with whatever world you just walked into.
  2. Displays are not as expensive as you think. That aside, this is a concern i share with you, I don't think sony can get it down to $200 but I believe they can retail it for under $300. At that price it would be a very very tough sell, but it could be ok if they make it possible to also use it as a normal monitor or TV. While promising to give you the illusion of having a really really big tv.

Removing you from the environment may be what it is meant to do but that still causes issues in reality world. Getting wrapped up in your wires, memorising the control positions and never letting go unless you want to knock them over while fumbling to find them again, not being able to eat or drink without it's removal.  Not being able to see what children and pets are up to could lead to tons of issues all on it's own.  Sure most of that can be solved by a large clean mostly clear space or supervision but those will also only limit it's possible audience even more. Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head that you get by cutting you off from the environment.

That doesn't even begin to mention that headset will be bulkier and heavier than a pair of 3d glasses.