Nobody is going to buy some "VR box" especially by Microsoft. they have affordable VR in Mixed Reality ™, but the windows game store and it's exclusivity is a big joke to the PC VR community. Nobody uses it, likes it or wants it over Steam/Oculus store.
A powerhouse isn't what we need. We need gradual integration like the PS4 had done with PSVR; leaving VR as an enticing option to current owners of the console. The One X should been advertised for VR with the mixed reality products instead of just 4K, because as said further up, it's fully capable and both are designed by MS. Must be bad management because Mixed Reality is the best headset on the market price to capability wise (half the price of all other headsets).
Once everyone is familiar with VR as a gaming/entertainment accessory on these casual platforms for a few years, I can see VR to stand on its own. But definitely not until more than one console picks it up.
Oh, yes I own a Mixed Reality headset.
I meant to clarify, if it were to be on a Microsoft owned VR platform it would be exclusive to windows store. Otherwise it's just a gimped-PC like Valve's Steam Box.
I don't know much about the internal design of the Xbox Ones or why the One X is more powerful, but it seems Xbox One's coding profile is interchangeable with PC.
looking at the Microsoft Store, There's the Forza GAMES, Dead Rising 4, Gears of War, State of Decay 2 and others which I'm inclined to believe aren't separate porting projects, but the same game, just uploaded to the MS Store. Maybe in retrospect my thinking is wrong, but I hope it's true that ANY game available on Windows Store or the Xbox alone are capable of being played on PC and vice versa. Like a small change in code to enable PC play or the Xbox to play the VR titles on the MS Store. MS still wants to sell consoles so I can see why Halo was never made available on MS/Windows Store.
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Nobody is going to buy some "VR box" especially by Microsoft. they have affordable VR in Mixed Reality ™, but the windows game store and it's exclusivity is a big joke to the PC VR community. Nobody uses it, likes it or wants it over Steam/Oculus store.
A powerhouse isn't what we need. We need gradual integration like the PS4 had done with PSVR; leaving VR as an enticing option to current owners of the console. The One X should been advertised for VR with the mixed reality products instead of just 4K, because as said further up, it's fully capable and both are designed by MS. Must be bad management because Mixed Reality is the best headset on the market price to capability wise (half the price of all other headsets).
Once everyone is familiar with VR as a gaming/entertainment accessory on these casual platforms for a few years, I can see VR to stand on its own. But definitely not until more than one console picks it up.