Imagine paying $600+ just to be an early adopter for VR

There's gotta be better things to waste money on

The core VR tech is important and has wide application beside games (i.e. medical use), so these $600 would fund further R&D making it more accessible to further generations, until it becomes mandatory utility.

>>2
Also, VR headset takes less space than a laptop, yet gives order of magnitude wider angle of vision.

Also, VR solution is much cheaper than say using 3 monitors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF4VV-ATg-Y

Or physical models of actual airplane cockpits. So no idea why people complain. It is like moving from dumb landline phones to smartphones with video conferencing support.

Ten years ago:
Imagine paying $6000+ just to be an early adopter for VR

doesn't work. people vomit all the time using it but don't admit it. humans weren't meant for this shit.

>>6
That depends on people and the amount of time they use it. Generally you get accustomed to it.

>>5
It was also far worse ten years ago, and twenty years ago it was Nintendo VR tier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po5iEqDDv3U

But yeah, until it gets connected directly to the brain, there will be imperfections. The core technology in theory can return movement to paralyzed people, like Stephen Hawking, and sight to blind people.

>>7
Anything messing with the brain is out the window for security reasons.
We have hardware attacks on CPUs right now.
Imagine hardware attacks on chips inside your brain, or even better wifi enabled brain-implant VR that kills you if you load a specially crafted webpage into your VR device - that contains no conventional malicious code but fries your brain because some RowSpectreMeltdown vulnerability allows it to alter memory/registers/etc by performing lots of brute force computations.
And i guarantee it will be WiFi enabled, since the other alternative is to plug your brain cable into a wall outlet.

>>8
What, you're telling me I won't be able to access the Matrix any time soon?

>>9
Matrix will have bronze, gold and platinum subscription tiers, plus DLC and microtransactions. You'll also be socially ostracized for not having a Matrix account, like todays Facebook(except people can't live inside Facebook).

Imagine paying thousands of dollars just to be an early adopter for VHS

Imaging paying thousands of gold Pfennigs to be an early adopter of printed books.

Imaging paying a fortune of drachmas to be an early adopter of a Euclid's Elements scrolls set.

>>11
>>12
that's not the same as this immature technology.

>>13
Johannes Gutenberg's technology is still immature: font selection is pretty limited, ink spills, and there is still no support for color illusrations or Japanese typeset.

Imagine paying 600 dollars for an entire virtual waifu

>>15
How much for just the boobies?

>>16
600 dollars