Virtual Reality, the next gimmick of gaming?

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kitler53 said:

to be honest i'm completely torn between:
1. flop
2. fad (aka gimmick)
3. innovation

i just don't know what to make of it. i hear such amazing things coming from the people who have actually used it but all i can see right now is the inconvenience, high costs, and my prejudice of thinking it looks stupid to wear that.

I never understood that part at all. I mean, who will be watching? Is it just you knowing that you look stupid (for whatever reason one would think that), even if there isn't anyone to see?

It's not really innovation. It has been tried before and it was known more or less what it will take to have it. Since Palmer figured it out that you can use the screens of phones to do it (you could call that inovation), and get everyone excited about it again, there has been a lot of fresh research and now we know even more what it will take to do it well. Nothing is really new with it. The head mounted display, the body tracking, the pover glove feedback thing, fans to simulate wind, 3d suround sound has been around for ages...

The innovation will be in the content, games in our case, as that is waht we are interested in.