Bad for VR Business

[Anonymous]

So I was sitting in bed this morning thinking of my personal frustrations with not being able to play long after my month has come and gone for the initial estimated delivery of my Rift as well as some of my arguments back and forth with fellow forum members either in defense of Oculus/Vive or whatever or against them and it got me to thinking.  This is all bad for VR business and they AND us need to get out sh@3 together.  Let me explain. 

Chances are that if you're here reading this post, then you are a VR enthusiast.  Yes, that;s right, you are.  The vast majority (probably 95% or higher) that are here right now are here because you're a VR enthusiast.  The added 5% would likely account for someone with just a simple question, brought here by someone else out of obligation, or simply be on the cusp of being curious, but everyone else is likely a enthusiast.  To us, we know whats been going on, agree with it, don't care one way of the other, or rebel against it leading to all of our internal rifts and arguments due to the different opinions over the launch fiascos (and yes I used that as plural for not only Rift but Vive as well). To outsiders though, they either don't know anything, know only what we (the real enthusiasts) tell them, or media.  A few weeks ago media was ablaze with positive articles nonstop.  Oculus this, Oculus that, Vive this... etc,  Now nearly every article I see randomly show up on Google or Yahoo paints a horribly bleak picture of VR because it nearly always is focused on the drama of the launch fiasco (mainly for Oculus but also of course Vive as well) and the fighting it is causing within the VR community.  To add to that, several of us (who let's be honest is the strongest marketing took that things like Vive or Oculus have ultimately from our own experiences and word of mouth leading others to the light) have taken to heart the recent issues and either go on record using all of our time/energy simply fighting with those speaking against our company or sharing our internal frustrations now with the company we once loved.  What we're not doing as much (as a whole community as we once did) is shouting to the heavens how amazing everything is and why everyone we know needs one.  Heck I was big into this and now tohose same people ask me nonstop "So where is yours, I thought you should have had it long ago and we were all going to try it?"  This led to me personally stopping to hype their image up and won;t lie that to my closest friends and family let my guard down sometimes and share my anger/frustrations over Oculus.  Ultimately this is all bad for VR as we, the ENTHUSIASTS are what will help elevate VR to something everyone will want to try. 

The battles back and forth over Oculus vs Vive, the battles back and forth over Oculus did right, no they did wrong, this all is putting the nails in the coffin of VR if we're not careful as outsides only know what we let out.  Oculus/Vive, you NEED to get your SH@# together and fix these shipping and QA/QI issues solved so that the outside world stops seeing all of our dirty laundry and goes back to seeing the light.  And that goes same for this community in general if we want to see VR truly succeed.  I'm upset with what Oculus has done following the "component shortage" and the retail full shipment fiasco but I respect your opinion if you agree with it.  We need to start simply accepting and respecting each others opinions and stop letting it divide us as a community.  Hopefully both Oculus and Vive will finally do their job and get the devices to all of us (no matter which side of the coin your on) so that we can go back as a community to raising the flag of VR and shouting from the rooftops to all who will listen the amazingness of VR and why they need to try it.  Ok, I';m getting out of my soapbox now.

[Hanover]

I have a weird prediction...and this is based on news that Sony has talked about bringing PSVR to the PC.  What if PSVR is the second supported HMD in the Oculus Home Store?  Sony and Oculus have also been very friendly.  Seems like all the pieces could be in place...and then you'd have an HMD that could run on a lower PC spec.

http://www.pcgamer.com/playstation-vr-possibly-coming-to-pc/

[VizionVR]

I doubt it. Oculus is already signed up with MS to allow X-Bone games to stream through their HMD in Big Screen mode. You'll see XBVR on Oculus Home before you see PSVR there.

[Oblongship]

DoctorFate said:

Synthetic, don't forget when Sony joins the party too, things should get busy quickly, lol. On a serious note I think Oct/Nov should be a wonderful time for VR as by then they'll be tons of competition and VIVE/Oculus should finally have all their s@#t together with a steady supply to meet demand and touch should be out. That's when this year will have earned the coined term of Year of the VR

Vive just invested $100 million dollars into getting more games into their market.

[VizionVR]

Not necessarily games, @Oblongship . More than likely it will be content and hardware development to build the HTC VR brand.

[Synthetic]

I think a good example of bad tech industry business is Microsoft blocking the Google Cortana search command

while on the other hand the support facebook and google are giving for 360 videos is just great

[blue-steel]

Don't worry OP ,  Sony , MS , Nvidia , AMD and others will all be getting in on the VR game  so while this may hurt it at the beginning  the real companies will come in and fix it for us