2016 The Year Of VR

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Conina said:

Yeah, it will take time. 2016 only the early adopters will buy it.

In the video they compare it to smartphones, "which were suddenly everywhere over night"... That also at least 2 - 3 years.

The first generation of VR tech will be mostly experimental and the PS4 will set hardware limitations. VR will get probably a big push with the PS5 + PSVR2 and XBox Two + "Xbox VR" (more affordable, smaller and lighter goggles, wireless...) in 2019/2020.

I doubt VR will become wireless anytime soon. First of all wireless technology isn't even close to provide the net data rates that are needed for VR. We'd need at least 10 Gbps and today's commercial wireless transmitters can't even reach 1 Gbps. Next thing is that any wireless connection adds delays, aka the worst enemy for VR. That doesn't even count for interferers who could cause delay spikes making everyone motion sick.

I think it's fair to say that proper wireless VR will not happen within the next 10 years unless they put all sensor and rendering computation within the headset, but then it's a standalone device anyway which would make bundling it with consoles obsolete.