When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet

Re:When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet by SamBam on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:04PM (#25451925)

For a long time I've wanted VR-like games, but played in the freedom of AR, where it maps and adapts to your environment. This would allow you to actually move around and interact with your space.

I briefly played the HoloLens AR game where you have to shoot at robotic bugs that crawl out from your walls.[1] The fact that I could duck behind my office partition was awesome. The fact that when I blew a hole in my wall I could see the "studs" behind it was similarly cool.

In an ideal world, I could trace out my house and play up and down the stairs. Or go to a field or forest and play in a whole other world.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29xnzxgCx6I

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Re:When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet by wlesieutre on Thursday December 17, 2020 @01:18AM (#25453117)

Custom Home Mapper is a current Quest project in this vein. It’s VR rather than AR, you map out your whole area (with walls and furniture) and then play some mini-games in it.

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