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dead4sure
Up and Coming
April 27, 2013
Question

Do you guys kinda feel alone?

I mean this with regards to your passion about VR and the Rift.

I have been a gamer/geek my whole life and have many friends from many different backgrounds that are gamers or at least tech enthusiasts of some kind. The moment I became aware of the Rift I started to mention it to my friends and even new people I met thinking there would be some kind of universal response of "cool".

Weirdly not a single person has seemed remotely interested. To be honest I'm quite confused. Some of these guys even work in the gaming industry.

Well anyway this got me thinking about just how many people pledged enough for or ordered a Rift and realistically the number is a very tiny percentage of the population. Now clearly most people will be devs and it is only a prototype but I'm beginning to think VR is a lot less popular than I thought. In years to come will there be a small group of us fanboys running around in our own virtual world while the rest of the population sticks with Call of Duty 20 on their monitors? I highly doubt it but I do worry sometimes lol

Do you guys have any thoughts? Should I start looking for new friends? ;)

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    cybereality
    Inspiring
    August 28, 2013
    We will have to make t-shirts that say:

    "No, I will not fix your VR headset."

    AhahaHAHAah!!!!!! :lol:
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    candiedbug
    Up and Coming
    September 2, 2013
    "cybereality" wrote:
    We will have to make t-shirts that say:

    "No, I will not fix your VR headset."

    AhahaHAHAah!!!!!! :lol:


    Talking of shirts, where is the Oculus Swag Shop? I need Oculus posters, shirts, coffee mugs, enema kits, etc! :lol:
    dwood15
    Up and Coming
    September 2, 2013
    yes! swag shop is absolutely required. Do we have any vr general shirts?
    Mark8539
    Participant
    September 5, 2013
    I'm a life long techie. I love my gadgets. Imagine a headset that you could play games with with 3D vision with head tracking. That would be so awesome. And so I remembering hearing about the OR Kickstarter. I remember thinking how cool would that be. I remember being sceptical, thinking yeah, right - there would be severe limitations that would mean it would be on the shelf very quickly. I remember thinking that those contributing on Kickstarter for a prototype rift were crazy.

    Fast forward to six weeks ago. iRacing, my most used game by far, integrated OR support in their three monthly build. I took note. I looked at their forums. I saw excited reactions on their forums that the OR was awesome despite the development kit limitations. I ordered an OR (I'm a software consultant in the mobile space by profession, that's my excuse :lol:). I received it two weeks ago. I'm converted. It's awesome!

    People really need to see it to believe it, even those who you would expect to be naturally receptive.

    I remember being told in the late mid 90s that I was 'sad' to be using the internet. Whatever happened to the internet?
    dawgs4ever
    Up and Coming
    September 12, 2013
    Not at all. Every person I've "evangelized" to regarding the Rift has been pretty amazed at the potential here. I haven't had anybody disregard it or mock it. I do work for and hang out with quite a few C-level folks in my job, and although the Rift has nothing to do with my job (I'm a Government Contracts and International Trade attorney), I am definitely able to sell quite a few of these people on the potential use of it in their business. Especially in the retail space.
    Oxid
    Up and Coming
    September 13, 2013
    I just put in my order a few days ago or so. I haven't told many people outside my technologically oriented friends, but the few outside of this category who I have told seem pretty amazed by it. They were particularly sold by the numerous reaction videos on youtube.

    But, in a sense, I understand what you're saying. It's a fear in the back of my mind, that it won't become as popular as we all want it to. I'm not sure it will be easy to sway people away from the traditional monitor set-up (or TV for consoles).

    Personally, I still haven't even tried the Rift, but I've been following for quite some time. My point is, I haven't experience it to be able to comment on the nausea, but as it seems to be a widespread issue. I feel like a majority of the more casual gamers will be put off by the nausea, and not want to give up what little time they have to game, in order to acclimate to the device and get their VR legs. Just an afterthought!
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