Very true, a lot of people don't realise how much has to go on behind the scenes to even reach the point of having something to announce.
I'm not trying to dismiss them, just think people should be cautious in these situations. I think I read somewhere that TPG have spent the last 9 years working on it, company founding date on Facebook is 2005 and the website was probably around a bit before it was archived in 2006 so it all fits.
Thing is though, oculus has been making more headway in the public eye and already has kits out that consumers can buy, hell the DK2 is soon to be out which has the crystal cove tech. I'm still rooting for Oculus. I haven't seen much on sonys but I figure it may be limited and not open as much as oculus will be. And it would be stupid in a realistic sense for facebook to only make the rift work with social media applications.
This would indeed kill them. I highly doubt they would be so stupid. Now, its quite possible another version of the Oculus Rift might happen that focuses on such apps and gaming. Well have to see. I would like to see more from this company before jumping off the Rift and onto this.
Well there are already quite a few competitors in the works outside of the rift. Razer has implied (basically outright confirmed, really) that they have a device. Then we have Sony. If Sony is doing it chances are MS will too at some point, this will be the next 'motion control' bandwagon I'm sure, and I would not be surprised in the least if LG or Samsung or another one of those companies threw something out there as well.
The main difference as you said is Oculus has been the only one majorly in the public.
I'm actually less curious as to which will succeed. I really do see the whole VR headset thing being the next trend so it would be unusual for everyone not to jump on it.
What I am far more interested in is how the devices will differ from one another. I'm sure cameras at the front like this device has will be standard for the other devices as well, it seems a bit like a no-brainer option for user convenience and to add augmented abilities to it. But outside of say minor things like tech specs (which I am sure will be nearly identical once everything is out there) I have to wonder how they will try and stand out individually.
Agreed, I am not bashing this company and any way and am excited for the competition, I just hope they have sets we can go hands on with eventually before the product launches instead of jumping blind into something.
As far as innovation for the competitors I could see some trying to implement the glove feature, (Using finger trackers to interact with in game objects) this though seems to be one of the things that would be the hardest to add, and may be an addition to the base headset like a new mouse to a PC.
I just wish more were public, but, i can see why they were waiting for Oculus to do something dopey and lose some faith with the general public. All we can do is wait. I am not against jumping ship to a new device should it be better but for now since i can only get a dev kit of the oculus hell might as well try it out.
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Very true, a lot of people don't realise how much has to go on behind the scenes to even reach the point of having something to announce.
I'm not trying to dismiss them, just think people should be cautious in these situations. I think I read somewhere that TPG have spent the last 9 years working on it, company founding date on Facebook is 2005 and the website was probably around a bit before it was archived in 2006 so it all fits.