VR is not a gimmick!

[Chazore]

habam said:

 

Well AR definitly has some potenial for production and stuff (so workers see their instruductions all the time and that stuff) but its hard to implement in gaming. Pokemon GO was a cool idea but thats basically already where the technology ends (though doing it with glasses instead if phones would be better).

 

I also dont think that most gamers wont enjoy VR or wont think its the best way to play games. Its more a fact that (with current low sales) many people just havnt tried it yet. There may be 30, 40 mio people that actually got the chance to try it so far. Thats basically it.

If you see people reacting to VR, in most cases they are blown away and find it far more enjoyable then watching stuff just on a tv.

That's a bit of a tongue tie with the way you started it out. There are 7+ billion people on the planet, while VR has been a thing since the late 80's and during the 90's. It didn't really take off much back then and it's been around once more over the past 4-5 years, with it still being rather small, despite the fact that marketing has become far more clear in displaying the devices and titles for them, when comparing it to 80/90's marketing.

I've done my research, I've seen the people blown away by VR and I've also seen those who just aren't interested in it. People will play games the way they want to play them. 

AR still has a ways to go, but so does VR. I think both can do well with gaming, rather than a sect line of thinking, in that VR>AR with gaming and that AR should only be a part of the work/entertainment space. 

John2290 said:

Absolutely, AR is amazing, especially the Magic leap however they AR and VR are starting at two completely different ends of the spectrum. AR will be mainly focused at productivity and that's where it will shine. These two will merge but for now we have VR focused at gaming and media. Both will benefit each other in software and hardware, I think the industry is trying to move away from the "Virtual reality" and attempting to move it to "Mixed reality". Man, that magic leap is some piece of tech though, mind blowing stuff if what they say is true. Perhaps VR headset will be able to utilize this tech with artificial light vastly reducing the size of headsets to something more resembling a ski mask or perhaps sunglasses. 

Again, that line of thinking is rather narrow minded and not looking at where said tech can go to and from. 3 of you on this site think it belongs in only one spectrum, while the same 3 of you think VR belongs in every spectrum known to man. It ends up showing bias, that you'd rather one side apply to all, with the other being incredibly limited, simply because you cannot see the bigger picture.