PC Gamer: Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe believes virtual reality should ignite a new race to increase computing power, much like the rapid iteration of CPUs in the '90s. Speaking to me a few hours before yesterday's announcement of a VR headset from Sony code named Project Morpheus, Iribe predictably expressed concern that the consoles' fixed hardware can't match virtual reality's rate of advancement.
"It's not that consoles aren't good enough for VR," says Iribe, "but it's that consoles are fixed right now, and we're going to be stuck with that compute for the next five to seven years ... we're at the very beginning of VR and it's going to ramp very fast. You see Dev Kit 1 and Dev Kit 2, it's a huge jump. Consumer version one, a huge jump, and the next jump and the next jump. And a lot of that is going to demand a lot of compute."
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey was able to try out the Playstation VR 2 at CES and was "blown away" by the experience.
For the people that try to downplay the original PSVR's success by comparing to total PS4 units, he also said:
"The first PSVR was arguably the biggest success of the generation, this version will do even better".
🤣🤣🤣 spec wise it weaker then what on the market already so, gotta be talking about games.
I'm debating on getting the PSVR2 but not having backward compatibility is currently my roadblock
businessinsider writes: "His exit came on Friday, the people said. Carmack, who has been openly critical of Meta's advancements in AR and VR, core to its metaverse ambitions, posted to the company's internal Workplace forum about his decision to leave."
I hope he starts up another new company and can get another new game engine on the market too.
He is like: "Im done with F#@#$%NG nonsense, pff Metaverse da funk I was thinking!!, Im out!! :D"
Yeah he put a smile in his face too in the end.
I hope he goes back to traditional games.
VR gaming is a flop and the Metaverse has (fortunately) completely failed to take off.
One of if not, the best game engine developer in the world. I hope he gets back into developing game engines.
They need to stick VR back in RnD departments everywhere that or let the porn industry lead the way like everything else that's been introduced then brought to mass market after porn made it a thing lmfao
Microsoft and Meta have announced a partnership that will see the cloud game streaming platform, Xbox Cloud Gaming, arrive to the Meta Quest Store, offering its suite of Xbox games to Quest users.
Flight sim inside of a vr hmd... could be interesting. Would the game had to have been built to support VR for the in game cockpit view to look around when you move your head?
Sadly this is not VR gaming but similar to Netflix in VR. Useful if you want to game in a 3D living room on a 2D screen. Maybe heavy usage will prompt developers to offer VR upgrades on old games.
They need to start putting actual VR games on Gamepass. Could get a share of the VR market as well.
Would’ve been more interesting to have a partnership with someone that makes actual VR games instead
"Iribe considers 4K monitors to be a small incremental improvement, not a movement like VR or big enough to be the catalyst for better PC hardware. "The race is kind of over," he says after describing consumers who can't tell the difference between a Core i5 and a Core i7. "It's plateaued and people care more about battery life and other things, because the demand on the content side isn't there ... VR really is going to reignite this."
》So he considers VR to be the next big thing, consoles don't have the latest "compute" to deliver, 4k is just the next "incremental" upgrade like 1080p is now and that the race for just a faster pc has "plateaued". Naturally his vision of VR is the future.
》Interesting he said all this BEFORE sony revealed their Morpheus VR. I think theres some truth to what he's saying with obviously alot of salesmenship for his OR VR mixed in but my real question is how close are we to a real product that amazes us vs just another peripheral that will fade? I hope this VR tech from both will be awesome but we'll see.
Pretty much this fact unfortunately for console people!
Wow, great timing he says something like this in a time when sony announced project morpheus. Threatened?
I understand the point hes making, but am i the only one that thinks that this generation of gaming wont last more than 5 years? I really dont see it happening, im honestly looking at a new console generation right around 2020.
So this means that each time Oculus releases a new product version that you will need to invest into more graphics cards and have a better processor. If they keep this up, how in the hell can they still make money if they are releasing a new Oculus every year or so? This doesn't seem like a solid strategy, I think that is was Sega that did this kind of thing with releasing a console so close together, it failed. I think that if Oculus would have embraced the console space and opened it arms, they would have been give a piece of that PS4 pie, now its game on and I think that they are feeling it.