Siggraph: Oculus Rift Creator Says Wider Use of Virtual Reality Is ‘Inevitable’
Panelists agreed that content is king. Henry Fuchs
, professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, asserted that a key obstacle to mass adoption is that "it's not clear what the application is that millions will want to use augmented and virtual reality for. Until we find that, we'll be limited to a few hundred thousand users. Not millions."
AR pioneer Steven Feiner of Columbia University emphasized that "entertainment is the next big thing in VR."
Luckey warned that VR hardware makers should be careful not to focus too much on marketing a "quantifiable" feature such as resolution. He added that there needs to be improvement in numerous areas, including ergonomics and latency.
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