| rolltide101x said: Pong had more of an impact on the industry then VR has, that much is for sure and that is my point. The gaming industry is vastly larger than it was back then.
With this said I do not think it is even fair to compare VR to Pong as Pong was the very beginning of video games and VR is well past the "very beginning" companies have been doing it in one way or another for quite a while. |
Can you see into the future? It took quite a while for home video gaming to become big after Pong. Heck for some anacdotal evidence, my aunt got a magnavox odyssey in 1979. (I guess the successor) It was this magic new thing, yet me and my sister though it was quite boring, nothing like the pinball machine my grandfather had in his attic. It took until nes and c64 to get into video games.
Btw video games were around before 1972 as well, first videogame was invented in 1958. VR has been around since the 90's, not in a commercially viable way though. Actually the first VR 'game' was made in 1968.
Yet the start of commercially viable home VR is 2016.
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