I am sure VR is not going to be the replacement for smartphones. However it does not have to be an addon. Google is building a standalone HMD untethered and with its own processing power on board.

Positional tracking for mobile HMDs will allow people to use the whole world as a tracked space and the possibilities would be endless for this kind of device.

That said its not going to replace a Smartphone as it has nothing in common with it.

Maybe for Sony it is.

true , when you look at it it is just an evolution from the telephone it's not like it came out of nowhere , it's just new technology overcoming hurdles incrementaly adding features when they become available and refining the user experience.

Sony would be better off looking back at there successes like the walkman etc to see that you can  apply innovation to a ready market by adapting pre existing tech to fullfill or create a need.

 You only have to look at history to see how many great inventions and ideas where found while looking at something else ,where a result of so many different people adding there ideas to the mix that it becomes near impossible to say who invented what, or gave rise to something  radically different from what  was intended to see how hard it can be to come up with the next big thing , especially  hard when your looking at a product that is more evolution than revolution , and being it's about communication it's development pathway has been and will be decided by players in many seperate fields, may be Sony should look around at what others in the broad field of communication are looking at , and see if they can't use that to give themselves a guide.

Yeah I mentioned this in a thread a few weeks back and was told that "That's how tech goes". Sure, but that doesn't mean that innovation should stop. The past 3 to 4 years has completely stagnated. We need a reason to go and upgrade our phones other than new contract or lost/broken phone. The next big thing is near I feel, and i'll be first in line to buy it.

A few posters here already mentioned it, but AR / Smart Glasses will replace smart phones. Smart glasses would free up your hands, so you can talk and work at the same time. A relatively small AR screen can appear bigger than the largest phone / tablet screen.

Companies just need hardware to get a little further ahead so that you can make them small enough, light enough, with long enough batteries that they aren't annoying to wear all day.

They also need to solve the UI problem. Voice commands are not perfect yet. Also, eye tracking or hand gesture tracking aren't as good as a touch screen input yet. I am sure that Google and Apple are working on stuff like this (I don't think we've seen the last of Google Glass).

I could see Smart Glasses being the next step. How long it will take to obtain technology decent enough is the question though.

Sure, they will eventually...
With what? Something that had yet to be invented? Keep making phones for now Sony.

What a savage  

I actually agree with both of you. It's inevitable, but there's still many people who don't have smart phones.

Just my prediction, I think blu-ray will be replaced before smart phones will, and no i don't think 4k counts, that will be a fad just like 3D blu-ray.

Why do I get the feeling this is one of the reasons why he said this? Also.......

I don't recall PwerlvlAmy having any history of bans in this site I guess it wasn't needed ............

Tachikoma, on the other hand :-p........