Virtual Reality is a technology that's easy to pooh pooh if you've never tried it. You can say that it doesn't feel real, that you look like an idiot with all that plastic on your head and you can't recreate reality without all the touches, smells and sounds that are such a big part of it.
It's the kind of technology that you really have to try before you really understand it. Fortunately for VR evangelist John Carmack, most that try it are instantly converted.
"Oculus really started popularizing a new approach using cellphone screen technology, a wide field of view, and super-low-latency sensor tracking," Carmack said in an interview with Fortune.
"It’s not crappy stuff that doesn’t work and makes everybody sick. When you experience Oculus technology, it’s like getting religion on contact. People that try it walk out a believer."
Interestingly however, he also said the same of mobile virtual reality, saying it was as much a jump from desktop VR to mobile VR, as it was from desktop usage to desktop VR.
"There is a sense that you are glimpsing something from the future. This is science fiction made real, and it’s only just the beginning," he said.
I have to admit, my own experiences with virtual reality were similar. I was blown away the first time I tried it, so much so that I bought my own DK1 and eventually DK2 headsets.
Who else here is a VR fan?
