COMMENT: 3D, VR Is A Dead Consumer Technology
Like 3D TV’s Virtual Reality (VR) is going nowhere.
Consumers are not interested, and Companies like Sony, Facebook and HTC are struggling to get traction with a technology that gives you a headache.
Billions of dollars have been invested in VR and even in the gaming world you don’t hear people talking about their “great experience” with VR gaming.
A Finnish start-up founded by refugees from Nokia thinks it knows what the problem is – virtual reality just isn’t real enough.
Does anyone really want to sit looking like a dork for two hours watching a VR movie, that is if you can put up with wearing a headset that starts to disorientate the human senses as soon as it is active.
Samsung had a big crack at VR and even they appear to have given VR away.
VR has been promoted as a way to make gaming more immersive but in the real-world virtual reality has proved about as enticing to consumers as 3D television.
Perhaps like 3D printing it is destined to find a profitable niche in the workplace rather than at home.
