Found this today in a drawer and thought it might help put the price of certain tech items in perspective. Do you think my Rain Check is still valid? It's from '94. Update: Price is $4791 in today's $! Update2: The CV1+Comp($1500) would have cost $927 in '94
2016 Oculus Rift + PC = $1500 2020 Oculus Rift + PC = $600 2030 Oculus Rift + PC = A guy posting an ad from 2016 costing $1500, then everyone is blown away! Standard VR costs $100.
Why do we keep comparing the Oculus to hard drives and compact discs? lol Those things were really cutting edge and the world knew it was needed. Edit: Ok, I forgot the definition of "perspective", so I get it now 🙂
$600 is an OK price if you compare it to TrackIR that first cost $220, high rate screens, weird controllers like Razer Hydra, and also think about the insane "cockpit"-like simulator chairs + screen mounts. If you combo'ed all the immersion equipment you'd end up spending $3000 + power tools for the stuff you'd have to build yourself.
VR headsets are using a perfected combination of past technology, that combination took forever to become mainstream because PC gaming was too niche to be cool. If your gaming platform was vertical, you wouldn't get laid, i.e. VR arrived slowly. Everyone was wet over it all 2014-2015 because it was finally coming, and now it lands on the lucky 5% who haven't spend all their money at Christmas, have a fancy PC, and so the popularization of VR is pushed back another year because 70 fps and FullHD turned out to be too unimmersive. That's why $600 is cheap for something that'd optimally fit the mainstream market of 2017.
Luxury digital audio and video cables are a complete joke and insult, but some high-class citizens won't buy a $20 cable by fear their friends will laugh at them.
