Just months before the first batch of modern consumer VR handsets are set to go on sale the founder of Oculus Virtual Reality, Palmer Luckey identified one drawback that might stop them from taking off for a while.
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Communications director for Sony in France, Richard Brunois, said virtual reality will revolutionize the gaming world.
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By “mobile VR”, Luckey is referring to devices like Google Cardboard and Samsung’s Gear VR, the latter of which was developed in collaboration with Oculus.
Luckey remembers that he himself has been a “cable servant” or someone who assists users immersed with VR headsets by “dancing cables” around them to keep them from tripping into or being constricted.
Luckey points out the limitations of giant wires saying that most people don’t have “cable servants”. The announcement came as a complete surprise back in 2014, though has undeniably allowed the company to advance its work on the Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD). Out of the 2.16 billion mobile users forecast next year, research firm eMarketer expects that 46.4 percent of those will have smartphones.
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Arguably the biggest story in the virtual reality (VR) industry over the past 2 years was social network giant Facebook’s acquisition of VR specialist, Oculus VR.
