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Calling this a fatal flaw is silly.

It may not fix everything with movement wearing a HMD, but one can imagine a whole lot of use cases without HMDs, and it might improve a lot of HMD use cases.

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Sure but I think that Disney is likely to be presenting this as a potential consumer use case and if it can’t make traction there it seems pretty fatal if they can’t find a way to make money from it.

We see a lot of POCs like this that never make it anywhere.

I think it's far more likely that this will be used in the parks division: Selling to consumers involves far more variables than creating a VR enhanced ride. Only if it's successful as a ride, with time to get the problems figured out and the prices low enough, they will consider retail.

As it stands though VR motion sickness is an even bigger problem for a park ride, sometimes you can get used to the sickness but if you’re doing it for a one off ride.

The video mentioned stage shows as an application, which makes total sense. It’s like the turning platform from Hamilton x1000.

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