Weekly poll: are VR or AR headsets the next big thing in tech?
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- Skalamanga
- 3Cq
- 04 Jul 2022
Akinaro, 03 Jul 2022VR and AR will always floop because not hardware but softwa... moreI've been working with vr technology for three decades, its far bigger than most people realise. The next big thing has already happened.
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- Sar01
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- 03 Jul 2022
For many years after the invention of the computer and internet, the content was all text-based. A computer 40 years ago mostly contained text-based content and similarly, a website about 30 years ago mostly contained text-based content.
Then the content slowly became more media-based: first images, then audio, and then video. The next elevation of user experience will be 3D.
Virtual reality is just 3D content. The Metaverse in simple terms is a 3D model of the Internet.
So it is just a process in the evolution of content presentation.
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- Raeyza
- nFm
- 03 Jul 2022
Akinaro, 03 Jul 2022VR and AR will always floop because not hardware but softwa... moreAhahaha. I mean what a load of bs.
Resident Evil
Superhot
Beat Saber
Alyx
Job/Vacation Simulator
Blood and Scorcery
Tea With God
Boneworks
Vail VR
Gun Raiders
TWD Saints and Sinners
Vail VR
And I could keep going.
You sound really bitter... And Google cardboard isn't really VR is it now.
I mean the Quest 2 has sold how much? And is still selling? And Meta have committed to research with project Cambria and others. Then there is the rumoured Deckard from Valve themselves!
And yes I am a developer. As in professionally and until the last year or two I would have agreed that VR is only good for things such as teaching aids or experiences rather than full blown games... But it's not!
As for graphics... Yet again you seem to be thinking App Lab games such as Gorilla Tag is the norm or that it's 2016 and VR is still running on a 980 and a 6700k... Man... No. It isn't.
The hardware is coming along. And tbh part of the future is stand alone that can be used with console and PC. Quest 2 has a lot of issues regarding the design and limitations due to price but it shows the possibility. With actual full tracking, better pixel per degree and headsets getting lighter and wireless that it's gonna be a thing that stays. People forget that VR has been around for a while now and isn't going away.
The whole bit about you making games made me laugh. Any platform has its share of bad. You think steam doesn't have asset flip games? Or PS store doesn't? Life of Tiger? And yeah it's in its infancy... You think PAC man, missile command and space invaders were as in depth as Skyrim? No. It takes time and iteration of tech and hardware as well as design philosophy. Understanding and learning how to make VR games. Right now a lot seem like tech demos because they are exploring new mechanics and ways of locomotion. And also how they can use the immersion with narrative.
I myself only got into it because our studio is looking into making a VR game but are aware that it's a whole new medium and what works in non-VR doesn't necessarily work in VR. VR has also started to acquire things that are standard across titles considered good...
So yeah I KNOW it's something that developers are taking seriously. Simply because the hardware, market and finance is there... But you knew that right, being a developer yourself?
Can't wait to see what the future holds for VR. I remember when people said polygonal games were a fad and tech demos and that they would never ever replace sprite based 2D games... I remember as a kid saying that the PlayStation was gonna change all that! And it did...
I do love the old man style of thinking though. You are probably right. Same with this internet malarkey... Just a fad, innit?
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- 2Au
- 03 Jul 2022
Now i'm seeing the scenery on player one movie, not the ingame scenery but the real world. This tech will affect the outside world for sure.
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- Anonymous
- 3SI
- 03 Jul 2022
Bigmeme, 03 Jul 2022This is THE next big thing in consumer tech. Mark my wordsHumans are extremely bad about predicting the future. Mark my words.
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- Anonymous
- 3SI
- 03 Jul 2022
Short answer: No
Long answer: No, and I don’t think there will be any „next big thing“ in tech in the foreseeable future. Those things don’t come over night, they evolve from constant development. The first iPhone was not the first touch screen it was just the best thought-out and most well-executed with existing technology. But the trends I see right now (Crypto/Blockchain, AR/VR, AI, Metaverse, ..) all seem like gimmicks or hype or both. And those headsets, they are not mass-market in any way, in contrast to phones which were mass-market before the iPhone introduction. Do we really need to talk about AR replacing phones when we still debate about how much battery life is enough for one day? Is this really necessary 10 years after the fail and death of Google glass? If VR was so promising, HTC wouldn’t be constantly on the verge of bankruptcy for the past 5 years would it?
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- Vegetaholic
- C9n
- 03 Jul 2022
Again, majority of voters really has no idea or knowledge about tech. It is as obvious as it is, that VR will be next big thing. Apple, Meta all working on it, and once they get formula right, light easy straightforward to use wearable Glasses without any restrains in power and everybody will be wearing those like zombies. Mobile chipset power and processing power of PC in general is advancing significantly since almost decade ago when VR become a thing. New VR era will be way more engaging and more immersive considering increase in processing power and new improved designs of glasses.
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- Anonymous
- Kx7
- 03 Jul 2022
wtf with all comment.. and do they have experience oculus? i dont think so
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- OmeninoDoMorro
- pXI
- 03 Jul 2022
Bigmeme, 03 Jul 2022This is THE next big thing in consumer tech. Mark my wordsI agree with you
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- hmm
- pI@
- 03 Jul 2022
Have these not being a big thing already past 5 plus years ? Content for the tech have started to catch up for them too now.
- Kangal
- vJt
- 03 Jul 2022
It is kind of like the "3D Fad" of the 2005-2015 era.
From experience, we can expect this to mostly die out. There might be one or two hits on the way (eg New Nintendo VirtualBoy) but overall it is on the way out.
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- MasEnha
- B3c
- 03 Jul 2022
VR may causing eye strain, fatigue, discomfort or permanent damage. Probably for sensitive eyes like myself will only last 30min before suffering bad headache.
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- TheLastOracle
- vG1
- 03 Jul 2022
AR and VR headsets gave been around for a while, and never really gained too much popularity
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- AnonD-731363
- SH3
- 03 Jul 2022
At the end we will end like in Ready Player One movie living in world of Virtual reality far far far away from real world and from what going in real world.
All money rich tech giants wants your money they are fueled with hunger and greed for your money they dont want you to chat with friends and family in real life meetings and garden cooking from which they have no money from you.
In the end we will be strained, suspended from everything and shackled locked by technology in our houses with no free will.
World of pure virtual reality is nothing just world of pure lockdown.
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- Anonymous
- Jvg
- 03 Jul 2022
This is a pretty old and boring topic (1980), virtual reality is stupid, people who appear in this kind of images look ridiculous.
https://fdn.gsmarena.com/imgroot/news/22/06/weekly-poll-vr-headsets/inline/-1200/gsmarena_002.jpg
They already tried and they always fail, when Kinect came out they advertised it as "the future blah blah blah" and then it failed anyway, what Meta is doing is more of the same.
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- blue
- nrH
- 03 Jul 2022
Bigmeme, 03 Jul 2022This is THE next big thing in consumer tech. Mark my wordsI heard this some three, four years ago. And in the end the next big thing almost disappeared. Just like the 3D future of television.
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- Yavga
- nXf
- 03 Jul 2022
Like with everything that is new, the market takes time to adapt. AR glasses seem to hold the most potential because the use cases are the broadest.
Before they will take off there are still some big caveats to overcome like comfort, ease of use and pricing
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- Akinaro
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- 03 Jul 2022
VR and AR will always floop because not hardware but software.
There are no real games or apps for VR, its all casual 5min demos of very bad quality straight from PS2. You can count good games for VR on... one hand...
As I see from all what Metaverse have its STILL caricatural low quality assets, so its really just copy of Second Life, this is not good for VR.
For almost 3 years I tried to be part of Mobile VR community, I helped in few projects, made even one game, Mobile VR was not really that popular as all that hassle with phone and googles was too much for people, especially when screens on phones where not best for it, and most of people had just low quality goggles with cheap plastic lenses that had annoying tube view.... It was big miss.
With PC is other way around, Hardware is really good, but there are no software, lots of badly made ports of games to VR, lots of low quality 5min simple games, like maybe 3-4 barely good apps... and maybe 2 good games.... You spend lots of money of VR headset to see... low quality content.... No wonder people dont use it...
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- EH6
- 03 Jul 2022
The reason most people see these as a gimmick is becaue they haven’t experienced digital teleportation yet. When you can teleport into a digital version of your grandmas livingroom and sit across from her face to face using ultra realistic avatars and play a boardgame together and catch up even though you are 2000 miles away, no one will be calling it a gimmick anymore. They said the same thing about the internet when it came out.