> Still uses a traditional controller or at best some Kinect like interface. Which would have the problem of needing a expensive treadmill like device to prevent you from bumping into walls.
> The headsets are still expensive. The hardware it takes to run games capable of taking advantage of the headsets is expensive.
The most popular VR device right now is the Oculus Quest 2, which is $299, needs no additional hardware, and uses fully motion tracked controllers (along with hand tracking). There's a boundary tracking system to prevent running into walls.
Also, it is growing a lot on a year-over-year basis, although of course the base is still tiny compared to cell phones etc.
So some of your info is out of date. I think that some of the challenges being worked on right now are content, device size/weight, and also integrating eye and face tracking into headsets. [1]
I don't think it's exactly expensive either, relative to other devices that have seen broad adoption. Computers, smart phones, TVs, (LCD/tube) monitors, tablets etc didn't reach that price point until they were in the market for quite a while.
Sure it might need to be cheaper to be affordable to 100% of the world, but it's not even close to saturating the market in high income countries yet (or the market share of much more expensive devices).
BTW the $300 device is not just a display, it includes a fairly high end smartphone chip in addition to a high res-screen, battery, lenses, controllers, 4 cameras etc. I wouldn't expect major cost reductions anytime soon.
An iPhone 12 with bumped storage and sales tax is about $1000. Apple probably sells roughly 200 million phones a year that cost at least $800? I'm not sure how many premium smartphones Samsung sells these days.
I'm not sure how you can consider that another universe? It's a pretty big market right here on planet Earth?
> The headsets are still expensive. The hardware it takes to run games capable of taking advantage of the headsets is expensive.
The most popular VR device right now is the Oculus Quest 2, which is $299, needs no additional hardware, and uses fully motion tracked controllers (along with hand tracking). There's a boundary tracking system to prevent running into walls.
Also, it is growing a lot on a year-over-year basis, although of course the base is still tiny compared to cell phones etc.
So some of your info is out of date. I think that some of the challenges being worked on right now are content, device size/weight, and also integrating eye and face tracking into headsets. [1]
[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mark-zuckerberg-on-m...