Honestly I don't understand why he would even make that statement it just sounds silly. It's not a "now" thing. Of course it's not people are in the process of working on games/headsets as we speak but it will be a thing very soon. I j ust don't see why he would make it seem like MS doesn't care about VR or isn't interested in it. That's only going to drive people away. He should be saying things like "MS is very interested in VR and we have a team working on it now". No one is going to stay away from the X1 because they are looking into VR like every single other gaming company in the world.

They will stay away from the X1 if they get the impression that MS doesn't care about it or has no intentions of getting into it. Which his statement sort of gives that attitude. 

In regards to movement, something like this is a solution.  But of course support, adoption, and cost are all factors as to whether it will catch on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuix_Omni

@method114

Yeah I agree.
People that think VR is going to be a fad, or a niche or go away again soon.
5 years from now you ll probably be looking back and shakeing your heads about how you viewed VR.

I also think people that go.... "buts its years and years away from being ready" are all wrong.
Could be surprised by uptake in sales and market growth with VR.

I just hope Sony price their version really aggressively (maybe even sold at a tiny loss) to build up market share for it. (if your going to buy a VR headset, you ll also buy some software to experiance with it)

Sony needs to get this right though, if its over priced it could take longer than needed to build up a market for VR games.

For now lets just settle with your head being inside a virtual world... and leave body movement out of the question.

People that play video games usually dont want to spend hours and hours running inside a small ring just to simulate reality.

People will be happy if you just give them a normal controller to hold in your hands, while your heads movement display the gameworld as it would the real world via head movement. Which will also allow you to play the "normal" type games you already play with a controller, without haveing to think up silly ways to play games.

And the beauty of it is nobody is forcing anybody to use an Omni with their VR headsets.  But it's an option for those who want greater immersion.  And its kickstarter campaign kind of destroyed its target goal, so obviously some interest is there.  For those rotund gamers wanting to lose a little weight, I could see this being an option too.

I personally don't know if I could justify the cost or the living room real estate for something like the Omni, but I'd sure love to try one.

"I personally don't know if I could justify the cost or the living room real estate for something like the Omni, but I'd sure love to try one."

^ this.

I wanna be able to go a mall, find a arcade with a VR + Omni setup and try that out.
Sounds like it could be a fun experiance.

But I personally wouldnt buy something like the Omni.

If I had a bigger house, maybe.  Set up something in the basement, perhaps.  But right now, not a chance.  But I could change my mind at some point.  I just love shit like this. Add in haptic suits, and the possibilities are limitless.

He didn't say that at all. He said VR isn't mainstream today. That doesn't mean they have no R&D working on their own version. They actually announced VR plans with Windows 10 to be rolled out in a few years.

People just believe what they want to believe, when all he said was that you don't see the kids begging their parents to buy them a VR headset like they ask them to buy COD ;)

I agree with many that I thought Microsoft was dropping the ball with VR. But after seeing the HoloLense demo I have a new appreciation for AR. With HoloLense they can blend the game and your real surrounds so you can still do things, without bumping into stuff and knocking over your beverage. Plus, I would think you can darken the room or lens backing to make it go more like VR if you want. It seems even the Riff is making some kind of Kinect tracking device for their system. So I suspect they have been refining this stuff all along.

Remember they have invented some new kind of processing chip for HoloLense. We have CPU's (Central Processing Unit), and GPU's (Graphic Processing Unit) and we have yet to see what their HPU (Hologram Processing Unit) can do. Instincts tell me it's going to be quite unique and do some powerfully complex spacial math as a basic function.

The latest wave is really the result of Occulus, and they were bought by FaceBook. Microsoft was a major investor and still a large shareholder in FaceBook. I wouldn't think it would be hard for them to bring it over if it really succeeds or they wanted it.

If the Sony Morpheus works well I would totally consider getting it. I think the HoloDeck or the things in Space BattleShip Yamato that are just like them, are the wave of the future. Might not be in the soon future, but AR/VR is a first step.

Not at all ? But the time is now, if they are waiting to see the bus likely it will pass them by.   Ar is a gimmick.