Därför ligger Microsoft lågt
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Virtuell Verklighet är det nya heta som alla verkar satsa stenhårt på just nu. Men Xbox-chefen Phil Spencer tror inte att marknaden är redo för tekniken. Samtidigt meddelar han att aktörer visat intresse för att använda Minecraft i VR-sammanhang.
"Right now, it's just been about technologies and things that I think we need to do on Xbox One to make the experience better, and that's where our focus has been. And I don't think VR is a now thing. I'm not saying it's five years from now, but it's not really a now now thing. Valve's got their VR thing, which I think is great; Samsung has GearVR, too... Funnily enough, they are very interested in Minecraft and how it could work in those VR spaces."
Det Microsoft faktiskt satsar på är dock förstärkt verklighet och det konceptet verkar Phil Spencer, inte helt oväntat, tro mycket mer på. Än så länge verkar det dock fortfarande inte finnas några konkreta planer på att lansera deras HoloLens som något tillbehör till Xbox One - även om tankarna finns där.
"Well, we haven't announced it as an Xbox accessory. But it sits within one team, and we have the conversations. Right now, we want to focus on a standalone, untethered device and make sure that we can prove out that scenario. That's where we started, and that's what we announced in January: the first fully self-contained headset.
The tethered scenarios around VR I think are interesting, but we were going for something different. Not being tethered to either a PC, Xbox or a phone as part of the solution was one of our design challenges for HoloLens, and we did that. Now we can say, 'Well, OK, if I do have an Xbox or a PC, what are those scenarios?' We haven't publicly talked about what those are, but you can imagine, as we continue to drive and get success with HoloLens, those scenarios will become obvious and developers will take advantage of them."
Phil Spencer är heller inte ensam om att ifrågasätta VR-teknikens plats på marknaden. Även Epics Games före detta chef Mike Capps har gjort uttalanden om att han inte tror att tekniken kommer att slå igenom ännu.
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Virtuell Verklighet är det nya heta som alla verkar satsa stenhårt på just nu. Men Xbox-chefen Phil Spencer tror inte att marknaden är redo för tekniken. Samtidigt meddelar han att aktörer visat intresse för att använda Minecraft i VR-sammanhang.
"Right now, it's just been about technologies and things that I think we need to do on Xbox One to make the experience better, and that's where our focus has been. And I don't think VR is a now thing. I'm not saying it's five years from now, but it's not really a now now thing. Valve's got their VR thing, which I think is great; Samsung has GearVR, too... Funnily enough, they are very interested in Minecraft and how it could work in those VR spaces."
Det Microsoft faktiskt satsar på är dock förstärkt verklighet och det konceptet verkar Phil Spencer, inte helt oväntat, tro mycket mer på. Än så länge verkar det dock fortfarande inte finnas några konkreta planer på att lansera deras HoloLens som något tillbehör till Xbox One - även om tankarna finns där.
"Well, we haven't announced it as an Xbox accessory. But it sits within one team, and we have the conversations. Right now, we want to focus on a standalone, untethered device and make sure that we can prove out that scenario. That's where we started, and that's what we announced in January: the first fully self-contained headset.
The tethered scenarios around VR I think are interesting, but we were going for something different. Not being tethered to either a PC, Xbox or a phone as part of the solution was one of our design challenges for HoloLens, and we did that. Now we can say, 'Well, OK, if I do have an Xbox or a PC, what are those scenarios?' We haven't publicly talked about what those are, but you can imagine, as we continue to drive and get success with HoloLens, those scenarios will become obvious and developers will take advantage of them."
Phil Spencer är heller inte ensam om att ifrågasätta VR-teknikens plats på marknaden. Även Epics Games före detta chef Mike Capps har gjort uttalanden om att han inte tror att tekniken kommer att slå igenom ännu.
www.gamesindustry.biz
Läs vidare och kommentera:
http://feber.se/pryl/art/324662/phil_spencer_tror_inte_att_mar/