The only concern would be about support... are they going to support it as much as they supported their other devices...

The only concern would be about support... are they going to support it as much as they supported their other devices...

Madword said:
Yeah exactly... the E3 show had quite a segment on hololens and it generated a lot of hype even though it could be 5 years out (and may never appear as a consumer device) and the fact that what they were showing wasnt accurate to what the player would see, still people fell for it. Great marketing though, i'll give em that. |
That seems to be MS's MO, though. With Kinect, XBO capabilities, and Cloud. Now, add HoloLens to the list.
@ OP
Can't wait to try out Morpheus. I just hope Sony doesn't price it too high, or give it a dumb name.
If they want people to buy it, they're really going to have to make a strong push for in store demos. I'm not buying this thing until I use it.
| celador said: “I’ve been working on Sony’s project Morpheus for 3 years, it’s going to go to market in 2016. It’s a bit different for things like cell phones or established technologies. When I was designing televisions it was usually 18 months to get a new model into production. A VR HMD is a bit different it also takes time for the component vendors to rampup for million unit volumes.” Adding: “In our case the HMD hardware is ready to go, we’re just waiting for the game titles to catch up with the hardware.” Maybe we will get the official name at PSX or PGW. |
That's ambitious thinking.
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| Danman27 said: If they want people to buy it, they're really going to have to make a strong push for in store demos. I'm not buying this thing until I use it. |
Yea i would like ot use iot for a few mins before i buy it.
binary solo said:
That's ambitious thinking. |
Indeed. The risk is that it could still be too early, but at least, unlike some other new techs, after the innovation, the evolution can be quite smooth: new materials and designs can make the helmets more comfortable, screen quality and definition betters and price lowers, and while input is still very open to new ideas developments, video output is already well defined, with motion control the system can detect position and orientation of the user's head to tell the GPU what view of the scene it must generate, and this part is well defined and it will be practically the same for every VR helmet. Also, stereoscopic 3D with a helmet, once helmets and displays comfortable enough become available, is very simple and effective, it doesn't suffer from the problems and compromises of 3D on normal screens, where neither glasses nor glasses-free solutions are immune from them.
Sure, a bad start can cost a lot of money like with all the other techs, but in this case all the R&D isn't wasted anyway, a successive evolution can become a viable solution, while both LED dispays and motion control components have already long become commodities, so even in the worst case, once the project is well defined, if a given implementation is still immature either for ddevs or users or both, it's just matter of waiting for components to evolve and put them togever in a newer and better device.
The right input methods and devices for VR, apart head position and orientation, are still a field very open to research and testing, but in this case, PCs and consoles can already accept input from a wide range of devices, and there are many standard definitions, protocols and libraries available to integrate them with most systems, so the problem will be to find the right ones, but then integrating them will be quite straightforward.