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Machiavellian on 13 June 2015
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
Puppyroach said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Microsoft has always been behind Sony when it comes to tech. Sony makes hardware so making new tech comes naturally to them.Microsoft tends to look at what Sony does and buy things to try and cut them off and say "hey we have this too". They did it with the Kinect as well.

Didn't Kinect development start in 2006? I think they talked about it with Hololens. And in what way did they copy Sony? Both copied Nintendo in their own way :). And don't even mention Eyetoy, Sega was way ahead there. And VR is far from a Sony concept, it seems Sony jumped on the bandwagon after Oculus got announced.


The kinect was turned down by Sony and they went and did the job themselves when they were doing R&D. Microsoft took it because the trend had started. Sony had been working on motion gaming since the beginning of the PS2 era. Just because Sega started it doesnt mean Sony wasnt involved in their own capacity. 

Microsoft has their own hololens but they got involved with the occulus for a reason. Project Morpheus was and still is getting good press.

Just because Sony turned down the tech in Kinect doesn't mean that tech was bad, it means that Sony did not have the skills to bring it to market.  If you only look at Kinect as just a game device then you totally miss the point that the device has proven to be great tech for multiple industries.  This can be an issue with most gamers where they focus so much on this console war thing they forget that these compaines operate in mutlple different industries.

MS has stated that they are not totally sold on VR and it's evident with Hololens they were going down a totally different technology road then what VR is doing.  The tech in Hololens is far above what is going on with Morp, Vive and even OR since Hololens is a wireless PC while the other techs must depend on either a PC or console to do their work.

When all is said and done, it's probably not in the interest for MS to build just another VR device since there is already a solid device in OR, instead they will continue to define their AR experience which is totally different and can lead to more impressive sales since their device at this moment is the front runner in that space.