AR/VR will be more than niche and go beyond gaming. VR arcades and the cutting edge.

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John2290 said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:
I don't like lumping VR and AR together, because AR is huge while VR is lame. I think the VR advocates like to attach AR to their name to try to get legitamacy. VR will always be niche. AR may very well be the future of gaming. There is a big difference.

AR and VR go hand in hand into the mixed realty industry. The same companies who have there hands in VR are in AR and vice versa. They will be one and the same thing down the line with the cameras required for inside out tracking VR headsets will also incorporate AR tech. Don't bring fanboy shit into this, why does every thing have to be a battle ffs, it's not needed, the technologies aren't competing and the generation of tech from one is helping in evolving the other.

Fucking tribalists, having to reduce everything down to a binary state of winner and loser. You bore me.

It's true that on the tech side they go hand in hand.  On the business side they are as different as night and day.  I've seen VR struggle for decades now, while this little AR game, Pokemon Go, comes out of nowhere and becomes major phenomenon.  I mean if you are only interested in purely the tech then you are exactly right.  But if you are interested in where the games are going, then they are going to AR.  The VR people can only fail so much before they go for the much easier money in AR.