242 on 23/2/2016 at 15:24
Quote Posted by PigLick
porn, fuckin porn. Thats what will start the VR revolution and also the price drops.
100%. Realistic porn would boost sales at least 10 folds, I would buy it for sure.
icemann on 23/2/2016 at 15:34
There's been a few sci fi movies set with that in there. And no I'm not speaking of actual porn done for it :p.
henke on 23/2/2016 at 16:32
Ah yes, like that one scene in the Star Wars Christmas Special.
Sulphur on 23/2/2016 at 19:14
Or Demolition Man?
That was a pretty prescient vision of what's about to come. Cautionary tale for where we're headed if we're going to cleave to the culture of sitting around with waffle irons strapped to our faces. Refuse the temptation, y'all, or we'll need Sylvester Stallone to come and save our bacon again, and at this point he looks a fair fucking bit deep fried himself, so why continue to tempt fate? Resist!
Kolya on 23/2/2016 at 20:53
Humanity demands it!
icemann on 23/2/2016 at 23:31
"Terminal Justice" was another. Very B-Grade stuff, but it had it. And it had Kari Wuhrer in her prime. I'd buy that for a dollar.
demagogue on 24/2/2016 at 09:55
Whichever is the one using fiber optics & selectively opaquing the screen at the pixel-level is the one that's going to win for the medium term, because that's the one that can promise being packaged in a normal pair of glasses, seamlessly integrate VR and AR, and control the depth of field of the incoming light so your lenses aren't straining to focus on a nearby screen.
(For the long term they may as well just graft it right into people's retinas when they're born, so people are just born in the grid and never even know life outside of it. That's when the Agency goes ahead and raises all children on the planet collectively, all communication, industry, and recreation may as well be through it, and the Agency "benevolently" oversees all social behavior everywhere at all times. Thanks a lot, Obama.)
Shadowcat on 24/2/2016 at 10:11
I'm interested in the tech, and would love to try it (any of it, really -- I'm sure the initial wow factor is pretty high), but I'll be pretty surprised if anything inspires me to shell out for any of this initial wave of hardware. Admittedly I think part of my disinterest stems from a hatred of 3D movie tech, and I realise this stuff is all very different to that. I just don't have a reason to buy into it yet, though.
The one piece of tech I'm really hoping will be successful and end up competing in the same space is the headset that projects the image directly into your eyes. I feel like that's the only approach out of any of this stuff that actually has the potential to feel completely real.
faetal on 24/2/2016 at 12:50
I don't have the disposable income to be an early adopter, plus I'm sceptical that it will be a disruptive tech rather than a novelty one. It will live or die based on how good the application of the tech is. It sounds like it could be very cool, but I'll only buy in (a) down the line when the hardware hits v2 or v3 and the kinks are out; (b) if there are lots of things to do with it; (c) the verdict is that it vastly improves gaming (or other application) experience and (d) it doesn't end up being a novelty item which gets used for a few months and then sits in a cupboard gathering dust.
Renault on 24/2/2016 at 15:01
Plus, I have to assume by the time we get to ver 2 or 3, the price will have come down quite a bit. I might buy down the road when it's more reasonable, but the main thing is I want to be able to try it out first. I'm hoping they at some point will put up demo areas up at a local Best Buy or something like that.
