Will VR be the Death of The TV Screen?

[Skelator]

In a few of the demos of various products i.e. Hololens, GearVR I have seen representations of large screen displays within the "experience".

Oculus have "Oculus Cinema" which simulates the movie theater experience, and Microsoft can augment a flat screen display onto any wall of home.

Recently Sony spun off its TV division into a separate entity to control costs.

In the longer term I think VR will change the way in which we experience movies, games, and TV but in the medium term it may spell the death for the large TV in the home.

If this is the scenario then I would imagine more of the manufacturers like Panasonic,LG,Philips etc will need to seriously start looking into HMD of their own. >;{}

[Skelator]

Take your point about the radio, but that's kind of a passive experience, I have the radio on in the background most days.

[Twitchmonkey]

I could see VR killing TV like the internet killed TV, or TV killed radio, or radio killed books. It's going to gradually siphon away more entertainment hours away from the media we enjoy today, but so long as it can't completely replicate that experience (especially the social aspects) there will always be people that prefer to watch TV.

[Reldan]

"Skelator" wrote:
Take your point about the radio, but that's kind of a passive experience, I have the radio on in the background most days.

Honestly, for a lot of people, TV is the same thing. It's a lot harder to have "VR" on in the background than it is to have the TV or radio playing while you're doing something else and loosely paying attention.

[HeadClot]

I hope so I really hate the companies behind the major TV stations here in the US.

[SaiJinu]

VR Tv will be the next big step ..and Tv wont die. VR headset will coexist with VR Tv in future

The next big step will be VR Tv ,and it will be like 3D tv's on steroids ,you will see a real life window when u look on a Vr tv ,and you will percept distance even very far away.

[Fredrum]

TV? Whats is TV?
We haven't had one for years.
Watching films with the projector(no fancy home cinema) and getting my news from the web.

[Sharkku]

For me, regular TV is obsolete. I don't own a TV. Instead I have my computer hooked to a 1080p projector and use that for everything, except playing Rift games. Stream all TV content etc. Watching movies is better on the projector than in the Rift. I project on a dedicated wall specifically painted for this purpose. Image size 3.15 m across. Sitting 3 m away, awesome movie feeling!

[RorschachPhoeni]

"Sharkku" wrote:
For me, regular TV is obsolete. I don't own a TV. Instead I have my computer hooked to a 1080p projector and use that for everything, except playing Rift games. Stream all TV content etc. Watching movies is better on the projector than in the Rift. I project on a dedicated wall specifically painted for this purpose. Image size 3.15 m across. Sitting 3 m away, awesome movie feeling!

The problem with TV today is the lack of good content. Every medium fails without good content. If there were only shitty books, then nobody would read a book. If there were only shitty movies, series and whatnot, then nobody would watch TV. If there were only shitty games, then nobody would play games on consoles or PC. And it will be the same for VR. No medium works without "good" content. (I set "good" in quotation marks, because there are different opinions out there about what's good and what's bad. There's a lot of shit on TV, but there's still enough people who are watching this crap.)

[Skelator]

I don't think its lack of good content, its just harder to find amongst all the garbage. There's lots of good TV if you know where to look. I think when I originally posted this topic is was more about the screen being replaced by a HMD rather than TV as a medium becoming obsolete.

[Mikey_fresh]

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