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On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 14:43:00 +0100, Werner Punz <we...@gmx.at> wrote:

>I personally see VR at the moment as a fad in the hype phase.
>
>The problem is. The current generation of consoles is to underpowered to 
>deliver a decent VR experience at enough framerate.
>On the PC side you really need a powerhouse to drive those things.
>Secondly, there still is the input problem unsolved.
>Third, I am not sure how good it is for the eyes in the long run if you 
>plug a screen straight in front of your eyes at 3-5cm distance.
>Then there is the problem that you basically have to wear a helmet to play.
>
>
>VR will go the way of television 3d, at the moment there is lots of 
>press behind it. A load of early adopters will be burned and in the end
>it will be there but relegated to its nieche for another 10 years with 
>2-3 games per year supporting it in the long run.

I wasn't really taken with cornball movement stuff like Kinect, but
was very interested in TrackIR for simulations before finding it
somewhat awkward. You have to sort of look away from the monitor to
change your view, but it can't be so much that the monitor is no
longer in view... It almost felt like something that'd give you wonky
eyes after a while, lol.

The natural motion tracking of the Oculus type stuff looks so cool to
me, I was ready to order a Dev kit a couple times just to mess with
it. Youtube videos and forums on the shortcomings of it made me wait.

I know this technology has had false starts since the mid-90's, but it
feels like the time is right, mainly thanks to smart phone screens
pushing display technology way ahead of what anyone expected.

I won't be buying any console implementation of this technology, but
really excited about it for the PC.