Room-Scale Will Be a Bigger Thing Next Year

Of course, PSVR definitely has the better price against Vive or Rift.

We don’t even need a prediction of PSVR for selling the most VR headsets. among these three within this VR year one 2016. With around 36M PS4s out there, people could pay much less to get a PSVR than Vive or Rift which needs another $1000 PC.

My point is, if VR is just a sitting experience but not room-scale, it won’t last long. The reason makes people excited for VR games is that, this is a whole new way to play games. I was very excited the first time I played VR which is around 1.5 year ago, even though it was not a fun game. The “platform”, makes us excited. It has new rules of games, new design of games. And not just gamers, developers are feeling even more excited to see this new platform. Because it’s worth to be excited. Finally, designers have new design rules to think about; developers need to think in a new way; artists will be taken care more; and we need professional sound designers so bad.

But if the platform is always just a 360 screen and people still sitting in the chair, it would be another hardcore gamers’ thing. Not for everyone in the world. Room-scale is. Just try out Tilt Brush and Fantastic Contraption then you’ll understand.

So I predict, Oculus and Playstation VR will announce their own room-scale system like HTC Vive’s Lighthouse in 2017.

In 2018, Vive will become cheaper, PSVR will become a little bit more expensive, and Rift will stay almost the same -> which means they will have the similar price and with their own room-scale systems.

I know Palmer Luckey has told us that Oculus can do the room-scale with 2 cameras no problem. But the problem is that $599 only gets you one camera, and even they give you two, it’s still not designed for room-scale like Vive.

I believe in room-scale very much.

Just some of my thoughts:)