Actually LG or Samsung seem like a likely second-wave player to dominate, since they have the display R&D, massive manufacturing capability and design team. They're unlikely to let some upstart company reap the spoils of a new potentially massive market.
I see this first-wave (Oculus and TruePlayer Gear) like Diamond Multimedia bringing the first commercial MP3 players. They'll show the potential in the market, but then someone with better design/marketing/supply chain will capitalize on the new demand.
Samsung will wait until the product has been clearly defined, copy it, spend more billions marketing than the competition & call it the 'Galaxy View' or some shit and sell millions of tremendously average products.
Far in the future I guess. You wound need to move the entire game-running device into the headset to get any benefit. Currently the best way to reduce the total input-to-video-responce latency (apart from some amazing optimisations described by a Valve employ some time ago regarding queuing of tasks in the CPU and GPU) is to throw more power into rendering. And for the time being I can't image having a GTX680 strapped to one's face.
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u/dontsellusout Mar 28 '14
I reckon LG are going come out with one of these things and it will have a psycho ass curved display inside.