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it's 2019. I'm at CES, and VR is an idea gathering dust for all the wrong reasons, lost in a sea of strange peripherals and pipe dreams. Self-contained VR devices, like Oculus Quest and the newly announced HTC Vive Cosmos, are en route, but it feels too little, too late. VR has lost the attention of mainstream audiences.
In 2019, VR is a sideshow in a theme park, a marketing stunt, a slide in a PR powerpoint presentation, a niche hobby for people locked in rooms with a ton of money to spend, and -- worse -- no one seems to know what direction we're headed in, or even what virtual reality should be.
TFA cites motion sickness as a continuing issue, one of the same reasons VR didn't catch on 20 years ago. What will it take for VR to finally realize the potential everyone keeps believing it has?
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Wednesday January 09 2019, @02:57PM
And much, much higher resolutions.
And detailed, full sensory engagement - not just sight, but also sound; touch; both imposed and radiated heat as well as imposed cooling; smell; air pressure and movement; imposed pain, pleasure, nausea, Coriolis forces, etc.
Essentially, your biology needs to interact with a totally artificial imposed physics regime, or, your mind must be convinced that is happening and your actual motor functions defeated so trying to interact with the illusion doesn't cause you to be damaged (such an approach is considerably more likely, IMHO. No "deck" required, just a couch.)
And a lot more computing power to run all that, presuming the tech can be put together.
And you don't have to wear something that feels like you have a rubber boot on your head.
...of course, if they get all that done, then you're going to need ad blockers of similar capability.
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