Comment Re:VR is undeniably the future. (Score 1) 115
Yep. It's still pretty rough around the edges, but it's absolutely here. There are VR ports for DOOM based games (Doom, Doom2, Hexen, etc), Quake based games, and Duke Nukem3D, and some new and fairly serious VR titles are starting to show up. Those old games were *hoping* for VR to take off 20 years ago, and they are awesome now that it's available. Games *actually* designed for current VR are starting to gel. Orbus VR (a VRMMO) is amazing. VR with head tracking is awesome, but once you get touch in there, it's a whole different level of awesome. When you have hands in VR, it's substantially more immersive.
You need a pretty burly video card to use VR, and for Oculus CV1 specifically one that can handle HDMI 1.3 for 1440x1200@90fps, which means you need a pretty recent video card, ideally a high end one. The dev kits will work on older hardware though... I just picked up several more of the DK2 dev kit for cheap on Ebay so I can host a VR LAN party....they don't support touch but for old shooters they will rock it.
VR is drafting off the fact that cell phone screens (the main component) are now a commodity item that is mass produced and has phone vendors doing all the R&D to shrink the screens and increase the resolutions. The price is going to drop as it becomes more mainstream. There were nifty VR headsets 20 years ago, but the display tech sucked and was too expensive... now it's good enough, and *cheap enough*, and comfortable enough to work as a product. It's still going to iterate fast though...current headsets are going to be superseded fast as VR takes off.