By Duncan Geere
What do you do when a friend puts on a virtual reality headset? Perhaps it’s not a situation you’ve encountered – most commercial VR kits, like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Playstation VR, aren’t yet on the market.
But I have, and I can tell you – it’s a bit awkward. You can stand and watch as your friend goes “ooh” and “aah”, which feels creepy because they don’t know you’re watching. Or you can go off and do something else and wait for them to be finished, which feels a bit like abandoning a baby.
“These headsets change the way you exist in the real world,” wrote Dieter Bohn in a recent review of the Avegant Glyph. “Somebody wearing one of these headsets is like an inverse ghost — the body is there, but the spirit has passed beyond.”
This is one of the biggest problems that VR is going to face when it arrives in the world’s living rooms. Unlike watching a movie, listening to music or playing a console game, where anyone else in the same room gets approximately the same experience, putting on a VR headset is isolating. Detached. Lonely.
But does that actually …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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