The Mobile VR is dead, long live the Mobile VR
For the last couple of months slot-in VR is going down. I’ve been asked on few different channels what happens with VR. Don’t worry. VR is not going to die. It just turns out the usability of slot-in mobile VR is not that great, but there is a clear mobile successor — Oculus. If you want to learn more about the development for the next generation mobile VR devices, I would like to invite you to my talk “VR QuickStart with Unity 3D” at DevReach Sofia 2019, 22 October.
Google Discontinues Daydream VR
That just happened yesterday. Google’s cardboard style products are what inspired my to pursue career as AR and VR developer. But it seems these products are now outliving their usefulness.
Samsung Galaxy Note10 will not support Gear VR headset
Oculus and Samsung Gear VR had a partnership pushing forward the VR for some time. But Samsung somewhat silently discontinued investment in slot-in VR shortly after the products like Oculus GO and Oculus Quest were announced.
Oculus Mobile
Oculus now ship two devices: Oculus GO and Oculus Quest. They are mobile, their hardware spec is very close to that of a mobile phone. However they do not waste the battery of your phone. And are based on Android as well.
According to Mark Zuckerberg Quest sales go:
“as fast as we can make them”
Oculus also provides a VR dedicated app store and delivers high quality content.
Mobile VR will be at DevReach 2019
Do you want to know where the mobile VR is going? The slot-in VR is dead now, its successor is, in my humble opinion, superior. If you are interested to learn more about the mobile VR development for the Oculus family — I would like to invite you to my talk at DevReach 2019, Sofia:
22 Oct. 4:40 PM — 5:30 PM (hall Alpha) “VR QuickStart with Unity 3D”
For the past few months my colleagues, from the AR/VR team at Progress Software, and I have been working on line of business applications:
And I am going to share part of our experience.
See you there,
