Here's why: Look at any picture of a person using the Oculus Rift. How does it make you feel? To me, the feeling I get is one of creeping anxiety and future shock. It looks like that person is withdrawn, isolated, sucked into a private world that we cannot access. And vulnerable too; unaware of their surroundings. If you want people to part with their money you have to make them feel engaged, optimistic and so forth. It's gonna bomb.
If only there was global network where we can participate isolated communities while most of people around us don't understand why we sucked into that so much... oh...
Here's a fun one, criticism of the new paperback format: http://mentalfloss.com/article/12247/how-paperbacks-transfor...
One recent example that comes to mind is Google glass
I mean, I'd love to be such a failure as Google Glass.
It will succeed. Even if for what many people would consider "the wrong reasons".
Envious that I don't have one.
(I'm sure the same will be true of someone using the Touch controllers whenever they launch later this year, provided they allow one to walk around some.)
People are behind this. This type of immersion is going to have the same affect as the Wii first did, only this time the whole entertainment industry is investing in it.
With regards to the wii, the wii is exactly opposite to the Rift since the way the controller is set up it's a perfect party game system, and encourages social interaction.
It may very well bomb but probably more so because of high cost and lack of "killer" games. I've never heard someone say that the images give them a feeling of anxiety and to be honest it's never crossed my mind. I frequently do have anxiety but if anything VR looks like a way to escape from anxiety and real-world instead of something that causes those feelings.
Nothing about VR makes me feel uncomfortable but maybe less technical people don't understand it's just a screen strapped to your face. Now self driving cars? That makes me uncomfortable...