Homes being built with dedicated VR/Gaming Spaces - HGTV Smart Home 2018

Twice a year, I am enough of a sucker to enter to win one of the HGTV homes. Its cost nothing and although it one billion-to-one I will win I still do it.

This year was teh first time i noticed that they remodeled the home to have a dedicated gaming VR space....well, a PSVR space at least. Its sort of neat because the space is not in a bedroom or high traffic room. It is at the top of the stairs behind a bookcase the folds away to reveal the little room. (If you go to the HGTV Smart Home 2018 site and go to videos and then the last page of videos they have one called "Flex Space". At 0:55 they show you the VR room.)

Admittedly, it is too bit crowded, but the do that is all "interior design shows". They pile in the furniture and too many decorative tchotchkes in every room. However, even if you dragged-out the bench in teh VR room, there is probably still NOT enough room for even PSVR. Yet, what I like about it is that they video game system is not in the bedrooms, office, or living room.

A little dedicated space for one use is nice. It would be a nice room for listening to some music or even having a small desk for PC gaming.

Isn't the catch with that contest that you only get to live in the house for a year? Or is it yours to keep forever?

When I play VR, I like to suspend myself from the ceiling and swing freely like Julianne Moore in The Big Lebowski.

Gotta play to win, duder.

You're not a sucker.

Call me back when the walls are painted black and have thin yellow lines in a grid pattern.

It is sort of funny/sad/telling that if your look up "home plans with VR space" you eventually find a lot of forums post from 2015-16 where people are asking, 'Are you going to make you own VR space in your home?'

I think many people, even myself, thought that VR was going to take off immediately. We were thinking Virtual Reality headsets and devices were going to become the most essential tech of the next decade immediately. It was tech that was hitting the ground running in my mind. I think all our 10 year roadmaps need to turn into 20 year roadmaps for adoption.

But ist so hard to know what you need. In the 1980s there were all sorts of "home automation" schemes in Popular Mechanics Omni, and other magazines. They said soon,"All our homes will be automated!". Yet home-automation is only now in 2018 really catching on and NONE of the things people did in the 1980s for home automation are relevant because back then 802.11 (wifi) and 802.15 (bluetooth) "didn't exist as a concept" for interconnects. If our families had installed 1980s home automation back then it would be 'cute/funny' today...funny and useless. The same is likely for VR, because anticipating what a VR room needs now is likely a terrible idea.

(Forwarning, i'm using ' = Foot, and converting from meters you damn heathens! So if i get measurements wrong, then you only have me to blame, also your dumb imperial system)

Yeah, my brother is building a massive new house, 600' squared two story, overlooking an water inlet in Queensland Australia, and it has its own dock for his 38' Sea Cruiser.

I'm doing most of the Ethernet wiring, getting help for the Electrical. But My brother and his missus (like most newly wed with babies), have 0 interest in VR. They don't even care about netflix, they just watch braodcast tv or ask me to snaggle them a movie once and a while.

Yeah, it tough to know what you need or shoudl do. My thinking is to put in Ethernet for sure, but leave room in the conduit to pull more wires or fiber. That is my new theory. You put in what is good now, but you leave clear paths and "maintenance opening" to pull, push, or drag they new technologies they have in 15 years.

Yeah for future proofing i'm putting Cat6E through the house as standard but twisted pair copper wire is beginning see the end of its usefullness, I'm trying to get him to put Ethernet and Fibre to each bedroom and entertainment room.