PSVR launch important for Nintendo and Microsoft gamers.

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Cloudman said:

method114 said:

The funny thing about this whole VR thing is that the only people I see down playing it are people who haven't used it. Every person I've heard talk about it and use it can't praise it enough. I remember listenign to one guy who just tried the latest version of OR and he said it was down right scary what they were able to do. I've just heard peope raving about it way to much to think it's going to be anything other than amazing.

I guess I'm in the minority, haha. I may not like it, but that's just me personally, I don't speak for everyone when I make my statements. I just say how I feel about the product. People are free to disagree with me as well.

 

Opinionshminion. Point is, many people who are not impressed by VR and show a negative attitude towards it never really gave it a shot (or had a chance to do so) and are outright oblivious to the potential it has.

Well, some oculus rift reactions from some elderly people. Keep in mind, these are just demos. Very simple stuff, comparable to the first steps into 3D graphics in the 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ8Xj_I3aNU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5eIHyFYFMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAC5SeNH8jw

 

 

ArnoldRimmer said:

Volterra_90 said:
I completely despise VR, so these are not great or big news for me. I sincerely hope it fails, I don't want to see a gaming world based on VR. Imagine the scene of people playing games in their homes, with other friends, with VR helmets. That's just ridiculous. I always thought videogames are a nice social entertainment, I'm not entirely sure VR could help with that. Well, that's just my opinion.

I doubt that VR will be popular for local multiplayer situations like you describe. When people have friends around, they will probably rather go for other types of games.

But let's face it, playing local multiplayer video games is the exception, not the default nowadays. I'd say at least 75% of the time people are playing videogames they're not playing local multiplayer, they're playing alone instead.

I believe the same point you made could as well be brought up against online multiplayer.

 

@all: You know what I find strange? There seem to be lots of people out there who have extremely negative emotions when it comes to VR, at times openly saying that they "hate" VR and hope that it will fail. Why is a simple piece of technology (that they simply couldn't care about if they think it's not interesting) causing such strong negative emotions in them? Where does all that hate come from?

 

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