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Monday, March 23, 2015

“I couldn't even guarantee you a 10% chance of a hit anymore” - Capps (and then he goes on to comment on the state of the Game Industry Biz and the hurdles to be overcome if VR is ever going to hit the Mainstream...

VR experienced as a novelty, this is apparent with Oculus, lot of testimony that it's used for a short time then shelved, nausea, 80% returns on Samsung VR, knew it had to be high, did not know it was that high, Oculus' reputation for making users sick is now part of the culture, so he says in so many words, ditch the divemasks, don't release anything until you know it doesn't make people sick.
  So, eMagin and their iHMD. I hope their testing went beyond a focus group comprised of students from nearby Bellevue College.  I hope they put people in Roller Coasters and Formula 1 Cars. In describing the reactions of the focus group  participants to the four HMDs he mentioned Field of View, Resolution, Size and Weight.  He did not say anything about adverse reactions or the subjects filling out a Simulator Sickness Survey. But, if it's true that users did not experience the discomforts that are now in the process of ruining Virtual Reality's reputation then it's not too much to say that Jerry Carollo design could save a nascent industry. To be fair Steam/HTC maintains that their HMD doesn't cause Simulator Sickness but I'm skeptical, the isolation is as complete as the earlier Dive Mask HMDs save some holes in the side of the eyebox that allow for some ventilation and light to the periphery. The problem of size and weight remain. All the admissions that the Oculus Design is flawed have now become industry wide. Palmer Luckey has no clothes. Recent hires indicate that the companies that made large investments in VR,  Facebook, Google know they need a new approach. That points to exactly what Sculley maintained about the problems of current VR Headsets and what Mike Capps says here, there will be no advance until somebody gets the hardware right.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-03-19-i-couldnt-even-guarantee-you-a-10-percent-chance-of-a-hit-anymore-mike-capps

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