If VR Becomes a hit, What Happens to Xbox?

[Normchacho]

SvennoJ said:
[x] continue downplaying VR while praising AR
someone has to say it.

I'm not sure what MS can do that isn't already being done.
Sony is already going the route of the external box to help with a cheap VR headset.
Hololens is far from ready to be a consumer device capable for games.

Reliable eye tracking at a reasonable cost is not available yet. MS could buy Fove, yet Samsung is already investing there too, might get messy. Plus it's another expensive device. Foveated rendering is the future of VR though, but it's still in early development and not that easy to put in existing graphics engines I bet. For now the system specs for Fove are that of quite a beefy pc. (A computer with dedicated graphics card with display port output capable of running modern, graphics intensive games at WQHD (2560x1440) at 100FPS or greater is recommended)

Would it make sense to launch it in 3 years for XBox One when Sony is already starting to get ready for the ps5 and their next gen VR headset? The current route seems more logical, promote windows 10 and cross-buy, play former xbox one exclusives in Occulus rift VR on windows 10.

Yet with the short term success they had with Kinect revitalizing 360 sales, an eye tracking headset for XBox One in 3 years is a possibility. If they make it compatible with PC and their next box it could even be the best move. I guess MS will wait and see how Fove does first.

You know, your post really got me thinking. What does PSVR 2.0 look like? We already know that Sony has had some pretty advanced eye tracking prototypes since early 2014, even having a version of Infamous SS that used eye tracking to control the camera. So I think it's safe to say PSVR 2 has eye tracking, as well as more advanced head and hand tracking...but maybe this is a topic for another time...

 

Anyways, I think if VR ends up being big, MS will likely just make the next Xbox Rift compatible. I just don't see how MS could be successful with making their own device in what could honestly be the waning years of it's console buisiness.