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Netyaroze on 09 December 2015
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Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
Netyaroze said:

Head tracking is not a possiblity its already there.

Fooling the mind to be in another space is the end result thats already happening.

What I wrote is just an opinion and educated guess and extrapolation of current trends. The optical VR implants are pure speculation.

Since when do you have to provide evidence for a speculation ? nobody can predict the future.

Direct stimulation of the optical nerve is possible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_prosthesis

If you manipulate the data feed of that device you can manipulate what the person gets to see its ofcourse basic and just lets you see in a very limited way right now.

http://www.gizmag.com/ioptik-ar-contact-lens-ces/30310/

This are contact lense display concepts.

Its possible to imagine some kind of light weight technology that can be later used to create virtual spaces.

VR as we get it soon, is a start, if it never starts anywhere it will never happen so its important we have those stupid early adopters to drive technology to the place it needs to be for broad adoption.

And I am convinced many people on this forum and gamers in general are going to spearhead this development.

Everybody is a Sceptic but 99% of the people that try it can see the value and understand the technology even if they will not buy in right away.

At the moment you have a clunky headset with headtracking and positional tracking and the result is mind blowing, its good enough to sustain itself.

What is your scepticism based on ? what evidence do you have its going to flop ? Vr Boy and 3D TV ? Even though they are different technologies and the experience they deliever can not be compared to Vive,Oculus ? Is your default position to think everything will flop until it doesnt ?

Can you see the future ?

I am as sure as I can be when I say will.

Doesnt mean it will happen it means I am convinced it will.

What I wrote is not the theory of VR it does not need to hold up to facts checking and tests.

 

With the exception of the first line which I never stated was a possibility.

The rest are "possibilities", there are no trends yet. There are no assurances, this is why I'm skeptical. Everything you've stated depends on something else just as speculative, because we've seen it happen with other things. There is no guarantee that the same will happen, it's just wishful thinking.

Imagination is fine, but you can't build anything on it. For as many things as we've doubted coming to a success, there are hundreds that have spectacularly failed and thousands that have silently died as well.

All this fanfare for VR, is just that fanfare, I don't care about the possibilities, when I see it selling then I can consider what can be built on that, but it has to sell first.

What I saw is already good enough to buy. It has already value. The stuff that already is here is more amazing than any traditional game for me.

There is no assurance but nobody is asking anyone to take a risk. Buy it if you think it has enough value when you see it if you dont leave it be.  For me replaying Half Life 2 in VR is already justifying 400 Euro.

I spent way more on way less entertainment already. For me its a no brainer.

Dreadhalls, Alien Isolation had my heart beating more than any other horror game before and VR Cinema is awesome.

Minecraft, DayZ and Eve Valkyrie is enough games I will be able to consume anyway for the next year or two. 

Imagination is the starting point of any technology and I have faith in the concept of virtual reality.