Could Apple or Nintendo make VR mainstream?

[KBG29]

Lawlight said:

KBG29 said:

I don't get where this idea that VR is isolating comes from. 10's of millions of people sit alone in a room playing mulyiplayer games with a headset on, with no connection to the people they are playing with. In VR the connection to the people you are experiencing it with in multiplayer is greatly increased. As the tech gets better, it will literally be as if you present in the same space talking, and interacting with other people online.

When you're playing at home, you can still talk and interact with the other people in your household. Not so with VR. I think that's why most people don't even talk in multiplayer.

Having spent countless hours playing VR with friends, I can assure you it is very easy to interact with people while in VR. Sure, if you want to completely loose yourself in it, you can put on headphones and lock yourself in a room alone. At times that is a great feeling. On other occasions, you can play without headphones, while friends or family are on the couch yelling instructions, or taking jabs at your mistakes. 

VR is not a singular experience. There is basically no limit to how isolated you can get, or how connected you can get with those around you, or even more so, with those also in VR.

As SvennoJ showed, many people now days are interacting with others via their smartphone, which offers almost zero emotional or physical connectivity. So in many ways, VR would actually bring people closer.