How universal do you think vr will be in the coming years project-wise?

[Allenheathx]

Tell me, how is playing in VR and playing online with friends any different? I can’t see them, they can’t see me anyways, so this is a non-existent issue, especially for PC players. …
Now, you were half-way correct in a huge downside for VR and being cut-off from the world, and that is, if you’re taking care of someone / parent.

I am not referring to the relationship between you and the other users you are playing with, I am referring to you the user playing…and the external real world. Your wife in the kitchen baking, your kids in the room next door playing on the bunk bed, sitting on the bus and not wanting to miss your stop, being home a lone playing a game and having chicken cooking in the oven etc. Screens allow user to embrace the world they are a part of but are not completely cut off from there surrounding world. I am not coming from a “oh boo hoo kids won’t play outside anymore because they will be in virtual world” stand point. I actually don’t care much about that. I am just saying, you can interact with me thousands of miles away though the screen on your phone AND simultaneously be baking a cake AND watching Seinfeld on a separate screen AND making sure your kids are ok outside kicking the soccer ball all at the same time.

Games that require ALOT of information processing for example currently do not lend themselves towards VR, but that is due to a screen tech issue. Once the DPI increases substantially, then even information processing in VR will be more rewarding.

That is the question though. Is it a screen tech issue…meaning in 2020 VR WILL be used for high processing apps or will they be too prone to epilepsy, sickness etc. to grasp those games types of games/apps forever? Will VR forever need to not use screen shake, high saturation, high velocity fluctuations etc. or is that just an initial period where that is the case now but the technology will become smoother in time? Or perhaps the next generations will adapt to it and the woozy stuff will go away. After reading the development rules it just seems a lot of the developers most used tricks are non-advisable.

Stop… just stop right there. You cannot compare a 3D screen to a VR headset. That is like comparing a motorcycle to a mountain bike, just because there is one rider and 2 wheels.

Is it like comparing a motorcycle to a mountain bike? Or is it like comparing a laser to a light bulb? Lasers are FAR superior to light bulbs in many ways. Are lasers EVER going to become a larger market then light bulbs? Probably not. Screens can be placed ANYWHERE and be used in anyway without alienating the user from there duties as a human being here in the realm we naturally emerged from.

I know it sounds like I am against it or scared of VR or something. I am really not, in fact I think completely going into vr in the future is the equivalence of heaven. This is the beginning phase so I am all for it. I just want to see if I can’t stir up a few sparks and see how you folks respond. I am excited about where it will all go regardless.