Aeolus451 said:
How do people pay a current Iphone? If it becomes the new thing, people will pay it. Most likely the first ones who will get it will be the current PS4 owners. it could easily become popular and there's also the chance that it won't but so far the tech is gonna have alot of support. If decent games keep coming out, it will do well. |
People pay premium price for it because Apple managed to persuade enough of them that iPhone is trendy. Same applies for large screen TVs, people buy them as large as they can afford and in this case both trend factor and actual comfort work in favour of sales, but I see much more difficult to persuade people to consider VR headsets trendy, and people actually finding them uncomfy will be even more than those that don't like 3D glasses. This doesn't imply a failure, but the first wave of mass produced VR sets will probably be a large niche, maybe even profitable, but to reach the majority of users we'll have to wait the 2nd or 3rd gen devices. BTW the first gen (first if we don't consider attempts made 20 years ago or even before) will have to start solving the big problem of finding effective input methods for handling virtual objects and roaming freely in the virtual world, while OTOH head and eye tracking only needed tech problems to be solved, but conceptually they didn't pose big problems once the former were solved.
