Carmack is working on Virtual Reality Headset

Gimpymoo said:
My problem with this and 3D is that because I have borked vision, it does not work for me.

Surely this is worth considering as how many gamers do not have vision which allows them to utilise such tech?

If you add it up across all territories, that is a LARGE number of people who simply will not purchase your product because it does not work for them.
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Indeed.

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Raventu said:
Yeah, that's ludicrous. And I should imagine we'll be matching VR with Haptic-feedback type suits that means we can feel/sense will be ready before 2020. There's already stuff going on about them too. This article from 2007, now? With the sudden interest in AR and VR technology, I would put his 2020 prediction at 2016. http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2007/11/full-body-haptic-suits/

The stuff that'll be happening 200 years from now will be far more advanced. By that time we'll just be wiring into the brain's senses directly.
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yea lika wow man :D

but seriously though, that is the way it'll go, it'll be like Matrix, Lawnmower man, because that is the only way to game.... to fool the brain that you're actually there !

gaming PCs wont die, they just wont be connected to a keyboard/ mouse/monitor any more, but to your brain instead..

you will probably have brain implants plus socket connectors etc, as well as V.R, because there's no other way to make a physical connect to the brain is there.
 
Gimpymoo said:
My problem with this and 3D is that because I have borked vision, it does not work for me.
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What is the problem with your vision, may i ask?

The reason I ask is that I have an eye disease "Keratoconus" and I am left eye dominate, my right eye just fills in the peripheral vision. I seem to see 3D ok.
 
Squark said:
Well that's nice for you but not everyone has that kind of money sitting around to spend
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Considering that they're willing to give away the developer kits for $300, and the huge demand they're already in, I would imagine the end-user cost might be closer to $250, including their profit margins.

Economies of scale and all that.

I'd happily fork out £200 on this.


Gimpymoo said:
My problem with this and 3D is that because I have borked vision, it does not work for me.

Surely this is worth considering as how many gamers do not have vision which allows them to utilise such tech?

If you add it up across all territories, that is a LARGE number of people who simply will not purchase your product because it does not work for them.
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I don't see why you wouldn't be able to turn off 3D with this device.


Radiation said:
I don't get why we don't have some form of proper augmented reality already and why VR headsets have sucked and been so expensive for so long, we've had all the needed technology for ages now, the demand is obviously there, so what's the problem?
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Cost.
 
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