Nuvendil said:
Soooo at the risk of derailing the thread...
For those who say they are sold on VR the concept but are unwilling to pay the price for it, what would you think of a VR arcade? I've discussed this possible business idea a bit and I think it has real potential. Rather than buy VR, this arcade would have a two or three sets of booths, each one playing a different game. I think cockpit games would be the best place to start. So let's say Hawken, EVE Valkyrie, that weird mech basketball type game Sony showed were three of the options. Obviously would be on rotation. Also there would be a few cheaper booths that had more VR experience demonstration type games. So like one might let you tour around a detailed fantasy city or a real world city. Or if No Man's Sky got VR support you would be able to wonder about in that.
Would you be willing to pay to use such a both for, say, 30 mins or an hour at a time? Would this interest you as an alternative to acquiring a VR headset? How much would you be willing to pay? A price range of $5 to $15 an hour was a price range one guy suggested to me (the booths are obviously not just chairs, they would contain quality controller options, comfortable seating, obviously a headset, speakers, and perhaps other bells and whistles).
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Not sure where you live but here in Euroland you wouldn't be able to do that for more than a matter of days if you were just using store bought Playstation VR setups, keep in mind that the license which comes with games is for one person, you are not allowed to rent or otherwise profit from (using them in an arcade scenario) those games, you would need to get Sony to agree to letting you use the games in an arcade setup and they simply never would, not outside of a demo booth setup to show off their products but again, not to profit from them.
