I think VR is a symptom that we're both running out of fertile tech to mine, and the population at large is tired of it.
In order to make a compelling experience the tech is Very Expensive...and what it really is is a funky monitor and funky mouse.
Well monitors are a couple hundred bucks and a mouse is $50.
And even when it _is_ affordable, it's just not 'sticky' (yes, I know, poor choice of words)
I've used 'em since the Vive and some of the experiences are outstanding....and yet they end up collecting dust for weeks at a time. I use it, it's great, I enjoy it...and then it goes back to collecting dust.
And I'm pretty sure the cheap, sunglasses, 4x better display of the future would be the same.
Got to agree here. Outside a very small number of cases beyond the honeymoon period with VR, it's just not something that I'm interested in wearing. The AVP looks like a fantastic device, bit sitting in my own world of isolation with a screen on my face does not sit well as an every day interaction. Not even every week or month these days.
I suspect AR will be similar for your average consumer. Info overload is also real. If it's built into a car, or something else it then has a function and is good.
I think this is approaching the end of what this VR form factor can produce. Compact pass through glasses + Dramatically improved “AI” assistants is almost certainly going to be the end goal for what these technologies look like.
Google glass may have been on the right course all along
In order to make a compelling experience the tech is Very Expensive...and what it really is is a funky monitor and funky mouse.
Well monitors are a couple hundred bucks and a mouse is $50.
And even when it _is_ affordable, it's just not 'sticky' (yes, I know, poor choice of words)
I've used 'em since the Vive and some of the experiences are outstanding....and yet they end up collecting dust for weeks at a time. I use it, it's great, I enjoy it...and then it goes back to collecting dust.
And I'm pretty sure the cheap, sunglasses, 4x better display of the future would be the same.