Phil Spencer - Virtual Reality Not Yet 'A Thing'

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Aura7541 said:

true_fan said:

Very few people are going to sit in their gaming area with a freaking helmet on, or those huge goggles. The same way very few people wanted to wear 3d glasses in their living room to look at a 3d tv. Not to mention VR causes dizziness and nausea for some people, so I doubt you can even have extended play times.

So you're basically making a bunch of assumptions. The comparison to 3D glasses and 3DTV's is also a very weak one considering 3DTV's and VR headsets are functionally different.

 

At the end of the day, it's all about execution. As Zekkyou said before, touchscreens have been around for decades, but it wasn't until about 10 years ago, touchscreen devices took off. How come? Because the technology worked really well.

Yes I assume VR will flop and won't even make it to niche status with regards to gaming.  All imo of course, and I said this even when there was an article saying MSFT would look into VR, so don't think my opinion is based on MSFT not yet planning VR.

Also to your point about toughscreens, you see what happened when they made touch screen monitors, they flopped. For phones and pads they are perfect and I don't think there were early (phone pad) touch screen prototypes that failed.