Opinion: PlayStation VR doesn’t need the power of Oculus or Vive to be a mainstream success

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln

PlayStation VR doesn’t need power to be a success

Virtual reality is going to be success. That may sound like a presumptive statement, but at this stage, with all this time and financial backing poured into it, VR has to be. The real question is how, and through which platform that success will be channelled.

VR is going to offer us countless experiences – watching movies, chatting with friends via chat rooms and visiting immersive new worlds, all mapped out in glorious splendor. But it’s on the back of the interactive, not the passive, that VR will find its proper success.

Play first, watch later

Gaming, from the simplest concept to the grandest design will be the catalyst that sees VR make it big simply because it offers us an immersive interactive we’ve never properly experienced before. A sensory suspension that could make playing on a flat LCD TV a little tame by comparison.

Thing is, that connection to videogames has caused some people, both within the industry and without, to start viewing those incoming platforms like videogame consoles. Just like how gamers and critics have become a little too preoccupied with frame rates, there’s a growing trend among VR commentators …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming