Phil Spencer hopes VR isn't the future of gaming.

[DirtyP2002]

HollyGamer said:

DirtyP2002 said:

HollyGamer said:

DirtyP2002 said:

Normchacho said:

I never really got how you would use AR for gaming...I mean, the game world would be limited by the space you're physically in.

Forza Vista in your living room for example.
Get your RPG character standing next to you while you check your armor, weapons or whatever
Make the whole wall your screen
Use your coffee table as a board for a map editor or forge mode in Halo
Call tactics in madden / Fifa / NHL / NBA on a pitch in front of you

And that is just what came to my mind in the first 4 minutes.

AR  for casual and familly games, VR in other hand for immersive experience and hardcore and mainstream games period.

What has this to do with casual / hardcore?

VR as it is now, is like a giant screen in front of you.
AR seems like an evolution or the next step above VR.

But we are still losing the main point: Porn will be great on AR!

With your logic, if Master chief coming out from your TV and save the day by shooting your table and furniture is more hardcore and mainstream then when you were on Master Chief world and becoming him self and save the day, is fine by me.  Mean while general consensus will say the other way arround.  AR when it's finish with the development will not imitate HOLODECK from Starwars (it will not even close to what Micrisoft Promise with their Hollolens Ad on youtube

Mean while VR for gamer, people already new the limitation and understand it will not like in the matris or scifi movie , and they already fully embrace the limitations. So for now what i understand from your view of point is that " I want Microsoft to be succes while SONY to be the Loser here " lol,  I am my self jealous with Holo deck, but i like and want Microsoft success.  AR and VR is different and both trying to be different, i like casual gaming and hardcore gaming both and they can co exist together. So if you smart you will support both , not because VR is SONY and AR is Microsoft.

My logic? WTF is wrong with you?

I never said anything about one being more casual or hardcore than the other one.
You were the one making that claim.

I think both will have games that will benefit from it, I just like the AR more because it looks cooler to me.
This has nothing to do with Sony / MS either. I might get Occulus Rift if VR turns out to be the new hotness. I doubt it though.

I will get AR anyway, because of the non-gaming stuff (read: porn). Well if it turns out to be ridiculously overpriced I might have to wait.