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0 pointsAndrewKemendo9y ago0 comments

Why would it be a gimmick if it's costly? Or are you saying the proposed thing is gimmicky?

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tjoff9y ago· 3 in thread

It won't get traction if it is costly, and without traction noone will bother developing more than demos and proof of concepts for it. And thus for the mainstream it won't have any real value.

Niche markets is another thing but not lucrative enough for a big investment.

sillysaurus39y ago

I think the problem is fun. All it would take for Oculus to win is a World of Warcraft type success that only runs on Oculus hardware. But such gems are rare -- usually one every few years. Almost every other game fades as quickly as it comes.

tjoff9y ago

Well, on top of that ridiculously expensive VR headset you still need a $1500 PC. Even if a World of Warcraft type success would run on, any, VR hardware noone would even know.

Except for that dozen hard core early adopters. World of Warcraft was only successful because of availability. Same with Minecraft - same with any imaginable success.

VR will either be available to lots of people, or good. Not both, not for a long time.

AndrewKemendoOP9y ago

I mean the whole point of these companies is that they have the cash and clout to subsidize the future. So they could make it as cheap as they want.

josh26009y ago

I think the point is that the rift is already too expensive and adding more expensive components isn't going to help put more Oculus in people's hands.

Oculus needs to shrink their BoM.

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