Poll Which VR headset will come up on top? (44 votes)
So Oculus had the mind share for a while and now they have Facebook money but Sony and Steam have taken some of its heat. Can't speak about the built quality of the prototypes but Oculus is a new company and Facebook has not put out a proven hardware. Also, how do they leverage Oculus? They have to work with Valve, Sony, and Microsoft if they want to get into games and they all have something cooking. Maybe they'll focus more on stuff other than gaming? The Samsung deal is an indicator but no one seems to be interested in that.
Sony can definitely put out a great hardware and I think Morpheus is the best looking headset out of the bunch but again, how do they leverage this thing? Of course they have the Playstation platform but VR has to be bigger than PS. Sony really has trouble marketing anything these days so even if Morpheus is the best technically, I don't have faith that they can do a good job convincing ppl that it's the right one. Maybe they can do what they did with dvd/blu-ray and really use their film/tv business to push VR and hopefully other studios will follow suit.
Steam VR apparently is the best technically and of course they have the Steam platform behind it. HTC is ok I guess but Valve hasn't really proven with any hardware either. In the gaming community, Valve is a mammoth but how is it viewed beyond it? Business wise, they seem to be geniuses so is this another home run?
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