For years people have dreamed of going to Mount Everest or the Sahara Desert but sadly due to budget restrictions or the chance of dying they weren't able to go there, but now with the great technological advances, you can! The first real successful virtual reality was the Oculus Rift, the company was founded in 2012 by Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe, to help their invention they launched a Kickstarter on the 1st of August 2012 and in less than 24 hours they surpassed their goal.Since then more players have come to compete in the virtual reality world such as Sony with the "Playstation VR" and HTC in collaboration with Valve to make the HTC "Vibe". Recently Oculus Rift came out with a statement saying that their product will cost 599.99 USD, now I don't know about you but I think that that's a lot of money, but it's to be expected since it's a relatively new technology.
People are exited to try out the Oculus Rift, but me personally I think I'll hang back and see how it goes before buying in the hype, because as it stands right now I believe that Virtual Reality is just a gimmick. I mean look at the Nintendo Wii when it first came out with it's revolutionary motion controls, people said it would permanently change the gaming world and look at it now it's the butt of the joke in many cases and I feel the same thing with Virtual Reality, it's way to complicated and cumbersome for it's own good. Strapping a "brick" to your face won't be comfortable and what if you have friends over for some classic couch co-op? Those are just some off my concerns, but what are your thoughts? Leave your comments down below.
-Phil
Edit: Here's a neat video about the five challenges VR will face that is very interesting.
Virtual reality is somthing that ive been looking into for quite some time now but sadly I have not seen much improvement in it right up unitl now. And even though i do find it to be a very interresting peice of technologie, I do not think that it is worth it's price right now.
ReplyDeleteAnd developers aren't developing for it either because they are waiting for a larger install base to settle in and consumers are waiting for more games to be made for it, so it creates a sort of stalemate. That also proves a hindrance for the VR market.
DeleteThat's pretty cool Phil! I think that virtual reality could change the way of gaming because we have not seen any game like that so far. I think I'd be pretty cool to play virtual games and I have been hearing about it for a while. Any idea when sony or microsoft will come out with it? But I agree it does cost a lot and when new technology comes out there's always bugs.
ReplyDeleteI was lucky enough to use an Oculus Rift at this years auto show, and I must say I am impressed by how far it has gone. I was driving a car simulator and it felt pretty close to the actual thing. I'm glad that technology is advancing the way it is, how do you think it can improve.
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