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Message: [QUOTE="BunnyLain, post: 53908, member: 112643"] I honestly feel it's a sad state, VR as it stands is too expensive for a lot of people to get into and the space needed for it to really work as the fantasy involves is a bit too much as well. I see it working great in a theme park environment where you can step in and experience a short game of it. I got to try that first hand in Japan with the VR Eva game, it was great and even though I died in it, the actual experience was amazing. But that was a sit down thing, which makes sense for stuff like that, you're piloting a robot. The real fantasy of VR is like a holodeck, being able to explore and walk around, which.... needs space... and I can't be the power fantasy my character is supposed to be because of reality. So VR has to conform to the standards peoples bodies allow for. When I used to do games conventions, a common experience there was kids picked up on how VR was a lot better than adults, which makes a lot of sense. Right now it's all very exhausting to set up and play, plus as gamers we grew up in a generation of games that used to sell themselves as immersive movies and worlds. VR would struggle to keep up with that when the player can explore every inch... and put their face through it all... It's very much an enthusiast thing and like flight sims and racing sims, it doesn't have the same mass market as call of duty. I could be wrong, but it would be best in an attraction, at home it seems cool as a tool or a new way to interact with others over the internet. But to play fully immersive games? Probably not. It's Virtual Reality after all, not Virtual Fantasy. [/QUOTE]

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