when will VR hit mainstream?

[kidrock450]

when will we be seeing a real time Matrix type thing where it is the perfect "virtual reality" im not talking about the cheap little VR games out now i mean the full monty where you would really belive your in the game.

 

[Crushenator 500]

when will it get here??? dunno, maybe 20 years, maybe 50, maybe never......
when do i want it ??? NOW DAMMITT !!!!!!!!! :angry:

 

[Direwolf]

Well I'd imagine cost is also a consideration. Depends how much hardware you're going to need to push something like that.
Myself, I'd be happy to get a VR setup for a current day game, which likely wouldn't be the hardest of things to set up.

 

[Gorgon]

John Carmack stated in his last Interview that Visual such as The matrix, Lord of the rings movie FX will be developed for game in 7 years time.

So by 2011-2012 you will play a game with a movie graphics.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

But you still wont be in a situation like the matrix where all your senses are stimulated to make it feel like you are living in the game.

 

[AmishSlayer]

42 years 10 months and 322 days. Around then I'd say.

 

[Sprafa]

The Bell Institute in Germany is reportedly a few steps away from a totally believable Virtual World. They say that in 2/5 years they'll have it. Remeber, it's only graphics, no physics or AI

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

It will be very interesting to see how rateings of games are affected by all this. I would not be supprised if they tried to ban violent games. But then it is bound to fail with the mass support there will be from the numbers of gamers out there.

 

[fizzlephox]

Think also of all the work it would take just to make a virtual world. It's hard even now to make decent looking maps for FPS games. Now if the users expectations were for it to almost be perfectly real you'd have to have a huge team to meet those expectations

 

[falconwind]

I think that if the gaming industry doesn't get the Virtual Reality technology going, then the porn industry will. I mean come on, Pamela Anderson in green jell-o anyone? You could literally do anything you can imagine, provided you have the skills. I know a lot of horny japanese teenagers who'd go crazy.

Of course, it would open up a whole can of worms, such as violence, sexuality, and even virtual addiction.

I wonder though, would it be so bad as to have Half-Life 2 quality graphics, but have total sensory immersion? Do we really need absolute photo realism, and besides, in games like CS, do you really want to see a guy get his brains blown out, in super realistic detail? I imagine that they would probably have a limit to the realism factor for photorealistic shooters (like blood splatter, but no actual wounds, or weird coloured blood, stuff like that).