Why would a 'killer app' be necessary? Smartphones proliferated without a 'killer app' (the iPhone launched without any apps at all) and with only a subset of the features available from the WAN-enabled PDAs that proceeded it.
There were mobile phones before smartphones. You know those refrigerators with external antenna that you couldn't use because a call required a mortgage? Everyone had one. Then everyone owned a smaller one. Then a thinner one. Smaller. IT HAS SNAKE. Bigger. Color display. Bigger color display. IT HAS INTERNET. Bigger. I CAN TOUCH THE SCREEN. Maddox hates it. Bigger.
The "smartphone" was more iterative and the leap far smaller than Desktop/Monitor to Displays on Face. Everyone needed a phone anyway. Nobody needs a display on face. Display on face must prove self with killer app.
We're only 1 generation of GPUs, 0.5 generations of consoles, and 1.5 generations of HMDs since VR officially launched. It's still expensive, cumbersome, and not even wireless.
You didn't even need a smartphone for email, I was doing that for years before I got a WinCE phone which itself predated the "smartphone" proper by a couple of years.
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Flunk - Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - link
Is VR still a thing? It seems like we've been waiting for a killer app for years.edzieba - Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - link
Why would a 'killer app' be necessary? Smartphones proliferated without a 'killer app' (the iPhone launched without any apps at all) and with only a subset of the features available from the WAN-enabled PDAs that proceeded it.DearEmery - Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - link
There were mobile phones before smartphones. You know those refrigerators with external antenna that you couldn't use because a call required a mortgage? Everyone had one. Then everyone owned a smaller one. Then a thinner one. Smaller. IT HAS SNAKE. Bigger. Color display. Bigger color display. IT HAS INTERNET. Bigger. I CAN TOUCH THE SCREEN. Maddox hates it. Bigger.The "smartphone" was more iterative and the leap far smaller than Desktop/Monitor to Displays on Face. Everyone needed a phone anyway. Nobody needs a display on face. Display on face must prove self with killer app.
Dr. Swag - Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - link
inb4 fortnite vrmode_13h - Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - link
Tech takes time. People forget that.We're only 1 generation of GPUs, 0.5 generations of consoles, and 1.5 generations of HMDs since VR officially launched. It's still expensive, cumbersome, and not even wireless.
Amandtec - Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - link
Smartphones had two killer apps: phoning and email.Sakkura - Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - link
You didn't need a smartphone to make a phone call, and email wasn't that big of a deal on its own.Spunjji - Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - link
You didn't even need a smartphone for email, I was doing that for years before I got a WinCE phone which itself predated the "smartphone" proper by a couple of years.