The Xbox - Oculus Partnership seems like nothing but PR stunt.

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JRPGfan said:

Why did MS make it like playing inside a virtual room?

Why couldnt they have made it sitting ontop of a cloud with a screen just handing there, or sitting under-water in some castle deep down there with fish swimming around as well? how about sitting on the moon? at at the very least some gigantic theature? so many cool room designs they could have done.

Same lame principle, but much much cooler than this demo was.

Don't think that is MS decision and that video is not more than a prototype. 

Some rift players choose to play in a virtual room because they can add 3-6 screens in the virtual room and kills the need of having more than one monitor. 

My friends use it for games like day-z  http://www.twitch.tv/zimtok5/b/668429544 it can be usefull to have the map of the game left in the virtual room and on the right information that can be usefull in the game.