See, now THIS is funny. Even an Apple fan can enjoy this dig.
The Oculus Rift S has an app called Bigscreen Beta where people can gather into theaters/rooms to socially watch streams that the host is streaming and they sponsor actual movies (with licensing rights). Also supports 3D movies.
It would be nice if they did. Apple is a trigger for me.
True, but the 75" 4K TV isn't the first invention of the Television that's been around for nearly 100 years now. So that analogy does hold where VR/AR has been around for many years, but due to better technology where we have 8-10nm ICs and smaller high resolution cameras and screens, company's like Apple can bring what's already been done and put it in a tighter package. My Oculus VR is getting to be pretty old-school now, so its resolution doesn't compare to what you can get now....I just haven't been able to justify spending money yet to upgrade. It's taken me until a couple weeks ago just to get into the Nvidia RTX space on my PC. (I'm cheap lol)
Hey, I’m an Apple product fan, but the way they present themselves absolutely drives me up the wall. This was the first presentation they’ve done in a LONG time that I’ve actually been able to stomach all the way to the end (as ridiculous as it got sometimes) and that was just because I want high-def 3D VR in consumer’s hands ASAP, and I don’t care who gets there first. I just care who does it right, whether it’s Microsoft, Sony, Meta or those smug folks in the UFO campus who named their new OS “Sonoma.”
And, in all the presentation’s attempts to not scare people off, it was the first moment where I could feel they were about to say something they didn’t want to say. The instant they started with the comparison, my heart sank, and my hopes that this would be an affordable instant smash hit were dashed.
Looking outside the circle of people who tune in to watch technology reveals, I think most people are interested in the entertainment side. Apple was wise to showcase movie-watching as a major selling point, but the near-complete snub of the VR gaming potential was… in-character Apple image-conscious pretentiousness?
And the experience through that device is not convenient enough or high-quality enough to be a hit with the GP. What Apple is unveiling is easy, self-contained, portable, first-time-ever as-good-as-your-home-theater VR sight and sound.
It could just be a realization that they’ve long struggled to attract gamers and game developers to their platforms.
That sounds like something Disney would say minus the AirPods.
My guess is that they didn’t talk about VR gaming much because people already really closely (or only) associate VR headsets with gaming… and not always in a positive way. I also wonder how many third party games they even had lined up, much less created, and wouldn’t be shocked if it’s 0. I mean inevitably you’ll be able to play beat saber on it in the highest quality possible, but I do think launching with a solid exclusive game would be cool.
