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Stop trying to make virtual reality treadmills a thing
Virtual reality treadmills are a bad idea and they're never going to be a thing that appeals to the masses. But first a little history lesson. In 2012, a then-20-year-old Palmer Luckey put up a campaign on Kickstarter asking for support to help make his Oculus Rift VR headset a reality. The crowdfunding campaign asked for $250,000 and by the end it got more than $2.4 million. Needless to say, geeks around the world were psyched for VR.
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Didn't really make any good points. Of course this technology is going to be terrible. People have only just started to try to make it a feasible technology in the past few years. People have been working on VR for the last 20. As a tech reporter, he should know that. Really just bad reporting.
He has a good point though, there really is no need for all that hardware. Its the same sort of thinking as physical keyboards on phones, sure they make sense, but at the end of the day, is strapping yourself down to a stroller the best way to experience VR?
Of course, but that's a given. There are two different parties who are into virtual reality. The people who are going for the unique and fun experience, and the ones who are trying to get to the pinnacle of immersiveness. The first don't care about doing all this extra stuff. That's not who these extra things are made for. The omni and other things like it are for the people willing to sacrifice playability in their quest for immersiveness. It seems that the reporter is trying to explain how these things will be terrible for the average consumer and that was already a given.
I think we both agree that there is two completely different groups of people that are looking to get into VR, as you mention those who seek to retain the ultimate immersive experience and those are just looking to get a kick out of VR as a casual experience. I think this article isn't meant for those in the know however, so you are definitely not the reader he was trying to target. As for immersive VR, there is already technology that allows you to control things with your mind, a simple push to walk, push harder to run and pull to walk backwards would do wonders for a good VR experience. Definitely waiting for something along those lines ;)
Still seems like a sort of useless article then. Really the only people actively seeking out information on that sort of technology are the people who fall into the second group. Most people who fall into the first group probably don't even know it is a thing. It's negative journalism just for the sake of being negative. Essentially cracked style clickbait "Why you should hate these things that you've never heard about and probably would've never cared about otherwise"
I don't know if its useless, I agree with his opinion, these things are stupid, complicated, bulky and generally a bad VR experience. Lots of people can save a wad of cash if they read a realistic opinion from someone that says it how it is. I guess our opinions are different on this, so lets agree to disagree :D
Of course. And that's one of the reason why this place is better than reddit. On reddit, its almost blasphemy for people to disagree on something and it to not degrade into some stupid fight.
But you're wrong and I'm right. :P
Blackberry is floating on the part of the market that still wants physical keyboards on their phones. Not sure if that's proving your point or disputing it though....