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warownslife
Honored Guest
11 years ago

A discussion on future jobs.

Now we all like the oculus rift but thats more so the best competitor. If there was something called not rift and was 100 times better, we'd love it more. I've seen a lot of people (myself included) that wants to get in on this market/experience. So, what is there to get into? This is a VERY large field, saying I want to be in VR, by the time you can, will be like saying I want to be in movie making. I want to personally be a game designer and i have no illusions going into it but here are the questions:

What would you like to take part in for VR, if at all?
How can you go about doing so, ie, what skills are needed?
And how did you figure this out?

To me that last question is important because i want to go into this field, check, willing to take time and energy to get skills, check but I have no idea what I really want to do. I want something of course that pays well and I enjoy but with so many options, I'm unsure. Direction is hard to find and I thought this discussion could be fun.

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  • Arowx's avatar
    Arowx
    Explorer
    11 years ago
    Well VR by it's very nature is basically 3D game development at the moment.

    But look at Second Life and Minecraft, VR will probably produce world similar to this, maybe themed.

    So you could work in the Game/VR industry or you could become a creator within the VR worlds themselves.

    Take Steam the game delivery service they have found that by providing a single place to go to play and share your gaming experiences they have created a community where people who set up games or are great teams can take part in competitions and people will pay to watch them play.

    So if you're really good at certain games in VR you could become a VR sport celebrity.

    I guess if there is a demand for your skills within VR then you may be able to make a living within VR without being one of the people that builds the VR worlds.

    Although I can imagine that the second thing to move into VR after the games/worlds will be the game/world creation tools.

    Anyone up for becoming a world or even universe builder.