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Sony, Facebook, Google, Samsung, Apple, and Microsoft Now All Have a Hand In VR
An anonymous reader writes The Oculus Kickstarter breathed new life into consumer virtual reality when it raised more than $2.4 million just three years ago. Now, at the onset of 2015, some of the world's biggest tech companies have a vested interest in the growing consumer virtual reality industry. Road to VR takes a look back at VR in 2014 and the path that lead these tech giants to start taking it seriously.
even tough I personally always loved when VR when i tried it over the years it's currently nothing but a hype.
Just like the Wii was when it released people have to high expectations from the tech.
3 years ago and, apart from some prototypes and some old games converted to "use" it, what do we actually have?
90's-style VR with upgraded graphics?
Sorry, but VR needs to find some kind of use case. Gaming, apparently, just isn't enough on its own to justify it.
Three years and many millions of dollars to basically strap two screens to your head like we did back in the days of VRML and flat-shaded polygons.
You know, when VR was in the spotlight the first time?
The headsets are slightly smaller. Not much, but slightly. Maybe the name should be changed as with client-server becoming cloud! With a name change everything old is new again.