I always loved the idea of VR, but I never found myself waiting cause I thought the tech was just too far off into the future to achieve anytime soon. The movie Lawnmower Man did intrigue me and made me want it, but again just too much incapable sci fi stuff.
TBH, I thought we would see perfect life-like video games on PCs/monitors first before we ever saw affordable, compelling VR that we have now.
I was talking to my gf the other day and said: You know, this whole VR thing is actually really exciting but strange in a way. I feel like I literally stepped into a time-machine and traveled into the future, cause this tech is just so damn good! And it feels like it happened overnight!
When you really think about it, it developed extremely fast from the prototypes Palmer was working on. Just try to think what you imagined 2016 would be like in 2011/12 ish. I honestly just thought we would have bad ass consoles, and really good graphics on PCs that were getting close to real life.
About 20 years for me.. I'm 38.. Lawnmower man and Tron movies played a huge part in that dream of VR. I also got to try the VFX-1 along with DID software's Euro Fighter 2000 back in the 90s.. I never forgot that wow feeling! I have ordered both the Vive and the Rift, and I'm currently using the DK2. I will say that my dream is getting closer. Can't wait!
I've been waiting for VR since I saw a demo on TV back in the 90's, the headset looked like something from the Apollo moon landings and the GFX were terrible, but it was VR!!! and it looked amazing..... i cannot wait for my Rift to arrive!!!!!!!!!!
Been waiting since the mid 90's can't remember which year though, but ever since i was a little kid (still am in many ways :p) i dreamt of being able to "truly" escape this world into a better virtual world 😉 you know where i am the hero and all that 😄 Love my DK2 and i just know i am gonna love my CV1 even more 😉
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People say "all my life" and whatnot, but I think we should talk about the actual time we've been really waiting. For me, it was some time in August 2013. I was looking at the Sony HMZ..yeah..and I saw a comment in a forum somewhere that said something to the effect of "screw this piece of shit, I'm getting an Oculus Rift" My first thought was "what's an Oculus Rift?" I Googled it and down the rabbit hole I went and still remain. The wait has been fun at times..but mostly excruciating LOL. It's really amazing and almost surreal to be here finally.