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Abefroman

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I think we'll see between 500k and 1 million VR sales, including Gear, Rift and Vive next year.
I think a lot is depending on the price. Don't forget how much we all lowballed the PS4 and Xbone sales. Also VR PORN!
 

Draegan_sl

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Nobody is gonna buy these things right off the hop.

What do you guys think of the concept of a VR based hospitality operation, kinda like a karaoke booth bar?
There's going to be some person who opens up a "VR Cafe" somewhere and make a decent amount of money and be out of business as the fad fades and people have them at home.

I can see a revitalization of the arcade with something like this. Not many people have the hardware at home to support a good VR experience.

edit: I could be wrong with the hardware bit, but I'm just assuming.
 

jooka

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Aren't they making a vr theme park in like Utah or something?
 

Shonuff

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The Samsung VR headset is fucking awesome. It needs to cool down after like 10 min of viewing, which is ok with me because I like to take frequent breaks. Not only for my own eyesight and orientation etc, but the lenses become fogged every now and then. You have to try and stay really calm and breathe easily or you will fog the lenses really fast and have to take off headset to let condense.

The introduction video is a great example of what could potentially be done. All producers have to do is make 35-40 min "premium experiences" that are done in 3 segments about 8-12 min each. An interactive tour of Mars, Titan and Pluto for instance. They could also do interactive and in depth tourism based vids of different locations around the world. The possibilities are endless. Its defintely worth 100$ if you have a Samsung flagship phone.
My Samsung has not overheated. I love it, and if this is the weakest of all of them, I can't wait for the Vive/Rift. The realism is stunning. We went to a huge house party last weekend. I waited until everyone was good and liquored up to put on the VR porn. I was amazed at the people who tried to have sex with the VR. One chick put the goggles on, and then started licking at the air. I'm going to say that if Samsung is the weakest, then we've definitely seen the fall of man.
 

Shonuff

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What kind of weird parties are you going to that turn into Porn parties?
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It was a Christmas part where people had too much to drink. I put the goggles on their heads for the hilarity of seeing the drunken fools' reactions. I didn't tell them what it was. 80% of them put the goggles on, and said, "Holy (insert word)." After everyone left, one dude was messing around with goggles until 4 AM, and he was walking around with them on the entire time. As the owner of the house said, the goggles were a "complete mind fuck." Only one person in the house knew what it was beforehand.
 

Jozu

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It was a Christmas part where people had too much to drink. I put the goggles on their heads for the hilarity of seeing the drunken fools' reactions. I didn't tell them what it was. 80% of them put the goggles on, and said, "Holy (insert word)." After everyone left, one dude was messing around with goggles until 4 AM, and he was walking around with them on the entire time. As the owner of the house said, the goggles were a "complete mind fuck." Only one person in the house knew what it was beforehand.
How do you get VR porn lol? The only content I have experienced is the stuff on the oculus app, like Milk VR, Jaunt etc.

It might depend on the phone your using as far as overheating goes. I have a galaxy s6 and it only happened a couple times and hasnt happened to me in a while. I think it was more due to room temp and having plastic cover on because its been fine lately.

Its more inportant to have your phone screen clean and make sure the focus is right and the set is properly mounted on your head. If the straps are not tight enough or too tight etc its not a good experience.

As far as the Rift and Vive go, its going to be truly amazing. With more powerful processing speed and graphics capability, as well as the superior hardware people are going to fall in love.

Ut you are misguided if you think this generation of VR is overhyped. The hype is warranted. I literally had a spiritual experience the first time i viewed the 360 video content, watching chinese people eat in some shit hut halfway across the world, nevermind actually engaging in a quality gaming experience having to deal with enemies or solve puzzles and actually interact.

VR is going to be all the rage by end of next summer. I havent been this excited about a piece of tech since sega cd came out and I experienced fmv for the first time. Its truly mind blowing.
 

Shonuff

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Ut you are misguided if you think this generation of VR is overhyped. The hype is warranted.
He says that? I've shown my Samsung VR to over a hundred people, and the reviews have been over the top. Only one person had something negative to say; she said her eyes couldn't focus.
 

Tuco

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VR porn at adult parties where there is drinking isn't that weird. Unless it's a sausage fest.
 

Dandai

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VR porn at adult parties where there is drinking isn't that weird. Unless it's a sausage fest.
Would you say a chick licking at the air dips its toe into the realm of weird?

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Shonuff

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Would you say a chick licking at the air dips its toe into the realm of weird?
Everyone was drinking a copious amount of alcohol. I'm not sure if it's because the VR was so realistic, or it was the booze, or both. But I'm pretty sure after demoing it to so many people, who had no idea what it was, that seeing their reaction was an omen of ill portent to the future of our society. It got weird fast, and I'm sure that people are going to get hurt on this. VR addiction will be a real thing people will need to be treated for.
 

Shonuff

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The best reactions you get are when you demo this to people over the age of 70.

I think rift owes me some commissions, I've turned so many people onto this that had no idea what it was.
 

Shonuff

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As far as the Rift and Vive go, its going to be truly amazing. With more powerful processing speed and graphics capability, as well as the superior hardware people are going to fall in love.
So, for the people that have tried the Rift/Vive and Samsung VR, how do they compare? I find it hard to believe that the illusion is deeper than the VR, it's that good.
 

Tuco

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I haven't tried the SamsungVR, but the big deficiencies are no positional tracking and less rendering ability (my graphics card along weighs like 5x as much as my wife's samsung, haha).

When you're playing a video / porn those two differences don't matter. But when you're in a game world they are massive. There is a term in VR called presence, where the more you feel like the world is real and you are really in it the more presence you feel. It's hard to get that without positional tracking.
 

Jozu

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So, for the people that have tried the Rift/Vive and Samsung VR, how do they compare? I find it hard to believe that the illusion is deeper than the VR, it's that good.
Yea man the Rift and Vive will be strides better in terms of graphics quality and capability. Like Tuco said mostly in respect to games but also with things like educational videos that use cgi or certain apps that have graphical content that is constantly moving etc. The Vive is 90 fps with a combined res of 2000 x + . The Samsung Vr experience is impressive and by no means cheap or underwhelming, but the flagship offerings by Oculus and Steam will be much more robust with tracking, content, hardware, and overall quality, which, again, like Tuco said add more presence.