Have Videogames Run Their Course?

[clubgop]

The games never go away, the platforms just keep evolving.

Arcade to consoles to PC's to phones to VR prolly.

I think VR is fad. Or rather a niche. It's expensive, it requires space and equipment, and you can't play if forever. Right now it's a tech demo, right now it looks like the wii was.

[Smitty-48]

The games never go away, the platforms just keep evolving.

Arcade to consoles to PC's to phones to VR prolly.

I think VR is fad. Or rather a niche. It's expensive, it requires space and equipment, and you can't play if forever. Right now it's a tech demo, right now it looks like the wii was.

It will likely evolve, getting less clunky as it goes, soon you'll be able to VR with just sunglasses and earphones.

[Smitty-48]

I was at a military expo trying out the prototype AR/VR for future infantry, and it was impressive.

The problem with the HUD's they have now is that they are clunky.

The newest stuff was like F-35 helmet, but with just eye pieces .

The weapon sight on the rifle was also integrated, boresighted, with IR and Thermal, in the HUD.

The earphones were multi channel with 3D sound.

You'd be able to operate in AR with VR as needed, just wearing it like goggles and earphones.

SOF are already using fully immersive VR to rehearse operations.

What starts with the military inevitably becomes commercial, MICC

Like you could sit on the bus or whatever, glasses, earphones and a smart phone, in immersive VR

[PartyOf5]

Equating videogames to movie theaters is a good comparison.

It's more like videogames = movies and movie theaters = consoles.

The method of delivering the movie/video game may go away, but there will always be movies/video games through other outlets, such as streaming for movies and phones for video games.

[clubgop]

The games never go away, the platforms just keep evolving.

Arcade to consoles to PC's to phones to VR prolly.

I think VR is fad. Or rather a niche. It's expensive, it requires space and equipment, and you can't play if forever. Right now it's a tech demo, right now it looks like the wii was.

It will likely evolve, getting less clunky as it goes, soon you'll be able to VR with just sunglasses and earphones.

You ever do it? You can't binge it. It becomes a workout and the glasses become an eyesore. Nausea kick in for just about everybody it is just a matter of tolerence. Some 30 minutes and they throw up, others 3 hours and they have to sit and get reoriented with the real world.

[clubgop]

Like you could sit on the bus or whatever, glasses, earphones and a smart phone, in immersive VR

See, when you say that I dont think of that as VR cause right now commercially it isn't VR. right now VR is a bunch of idiots standing around making erratic hand motions and waving their heads around looking like Ray Charles.

[Smitty-48]

I think VR is fad. Or rather a niche. It's expensive, it requires space and equipment, and you can't play if forever. Right now it's a tech demo, right now it looks like the wii was.

It will likely evolve, getting less clunky as it goes, soon you'll be able to VR with just sunglasses and earphones.

You ever do it? You can't binge it. It becomes a workout and the glasses become an eyesore. Nausea kick in for just about everybody it is just a matter of tolerence. Some 30 minutes and they throw up, others 3 hours and they have to sit and get reoriented with the real world.

The really bleeding edge stuff doesn't give you nausea, I was fully immersive and I didn't get any.

The imagery wasn't real life, it was simulated, but there was no latency, no jiggle, it was just like looking around a room.

[Martin Hash]

Apparently, this year, 2019, is the first revenue decline since 1996. I asked a few Millennials, and none of them had bought or even played a videogame in a couple years.

[PartyOf5]

Maybe this is a separate thread, but do Millenials do anyways? I hear they don't want to buy homes, aren't having kids. I've noticed that they don't seem to join sports leagues either. So what are they doing?

[Smitty-48]

Millennials live a rich and rewarding life of complaining, self pity, fabricating conspiracy theories, blaming previous generations for their woes, and being asexual puritanical virtue signallers.