It is a good thing indeed for VR and even for Oculus VR itself I would say.
You see, we could assume that it will take time for Google to develop a good VR product (if they ever do) and, meanwhile, it will draw attention from investors and public to VR in general.
I doubt they'll release a product that matches the Rift or Vive in quality any time soon. My guess they're mostly focused on perhaps iterating on the Cardboard, and would be focused on enabling mobile VR in a cheap way.
Then there's Magic Leap which they seem to be continuing to pour money into. That has the potential to suddenly appear on the scene as a major new device (or possibly disappear into obscurity depending on whether they can make the tech work or whether Rony Abovitz completely implodes - he's an odd guy).
"onefang" wrote: Considering the huge variety of Google Cardboard compatible devices out there, I would say they already have entered the VR space in a meaningful way.
Enclosures are not the same as developing consumer grade vr.
Another theory is that they see a threat to their existance in the longer term. If VR Internet (Metaverse) replaces the 'flat screen' Internet then the search engine could be up for grabs again because 3D object search could determine the dominate search engine used.
"onefang" wrote: Considering the huge variety of Google Cardboard compatible devices out there, I would say they already have entered the VR space in a meaningful way.
Enclosures are not the same as developing consumer grade vr.
Depends on your definition of "meaningful". Dozens of companies clone your product? That's "meaningful" to me. It's still VR. No one mentioned "consumer grade VR", just "VR".
