Originally Posted by
philehidiot
I remember playing Doom in Maplins on a VR headset. This has happened before and will happen again. The tech is limited by wires and space.
Does anyone remember Quazar / laser gun battles? Cyber cafes where you could game? Now imagine that with VR. The wires mounted from the ceiling so they aren't trailing, the proper kit, no furniture removal required and so on.... I think VR may well work in that kind of environment and it may take a cinema realising ticket sales are falling and one screen could be dedicated to VR stuff where groups of mates go to kill each other in VR, race cars in VR or whatever. You MIGHT be able to do something like that. Whether you could make it profitable or not I dunno and you'd need a lot of games available to do it.
But I suspect it'll fade away again as for the home gamer it's not practical (space, cost) and that HTC has sold almost everything to throw all its cash at a fad. Such a shame.