But there are still some issues that have to be resolved which are going to take some time, and we’re probably going to see VR technology in a bit of a limbo for the time being until those problems are addressed. There are some actual hardware issues that VR manufacturers still haven’t been able to overcome, for example, and those are pretty common across the board.
On the other hand, developers of VR games have also been trying to find a good common style for their works, but this is apparently proving to be more difficult than people were expecting. Developers are still wondering what the best approach to those games is, and we’ve seen some interesting solutions already but we’re likely going to see even more in the future.
It’s just like with regular games when they first appeared on the market, and it will likely be a while before we see some standardized form factor for VR games that is common across the board.
And for some, this is actually the most interesting period as this is when we get to see the most creative ideas manifesting, and where the foundations of the future of this style are truly laid. From this point, we’re going to see some particularly interesting developments coming out that will be talked about.
Arash, I do hope you realize that the Samsung Gear VR is NOT competition for the Oculus Rift; on the contrary, it is a joint venture between Samsung and OculusVR, and that is why it says “Oculus” on every Gear VR. Samsung has built the hardware, working hand-in-hand with OculusVR, and OculusVR has developed the software which drives the entire process; and every User enters through the Oculus Store for all of their purchases of software, just as all of the Oculus Rift owners will. And this Oculus Store for both the Gear VR and the Oculus Rift, is where OculusVR will finally start making money off of all of their hardware and software designs. So the Gear VR is like the untethered version of an Oculus Rift; and OculusVR is making more money on every unit sold than Samsung is, due the software sales in the Oculus Store. Will Hart
Saying that Oculus is “competing” with the other VR hardware producers is a little misleading; These companies have actually been going out of their way to share tech and help each other develop better hardware, because the more people who catch on to VR and the more impressive it all is when it first hits the consumer market, the more they ALL win. Presumably, in the end they will each target completely different markets and focus on different needs or specialized applications.
Any REAL competition won’t start until after the technology has reached wide-scale adoption (and Facebook is poised to capitalize on it whether you’re using an Oculus or someone else’s HMD)