A reality check for virtual headsets

Re:A reality check for virtual headsets by hoodoof on Thursday July 06, 2017 @07:37PM (#14714858)

VR needs good software and the reality is that it is just not there yet. If it does not come by the end of this year there will be a problem.

I think it will happen though for the one reason that Bethesda is delivering Doom, Fallout 4 and Skyrim for Sony PS4 VR for this Christmas. That will give Sony a big reason to keep yelling about PS4 VR and will restore the faith of people like me who bought a VR headset early that is now just sitting there waiting for good software to use it with.

The next challenge facing vR beyond that point is whether the three titles mentioned above deliver on the promise of VR - if they do not then VR is finished, at least for this round of enthusiasm about the idea.

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Re:A reality check for virtual headsets by TuringTest on Friday July 07, 2017 @08:28AM (#14717824)

Doom, Fallout and Skyrim seem like precisely the wrong games to target for VR, unless they remake them completely to use instant teleportation instead of walking.

FPS in VR only works from a static standing point, otherwise the VR sickness kicks in really fast.

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