The state of virtual reality at E3 2016

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1. Waiting for NerveGear.
   Anything less is just not really VR.

2. What's this about her making a face. Is this a meme I don't know about?

3. I liked her report it's thorough and to the point. Also kudos to The Verge for choosing someone with brains rather than sticking some bimbo who's memorised a script, in-front of the camera.

4. NO TALK OF FARPOINT. THIS VIDEO FAILS.

5. why is there no Real touch device?

6. Sold for me. Unfortunately, women tend to have greater problems with depth perception, etc. *Read the Science* on it. Sorry, just facts thus far. Pretty compelling product category. I've tried a few, and will be buying two of these manufacters products. Which one, can't decide yet.

7. VR is a glorified Wii

8. The Verge is great on technology but are completely childish on politics. Gives me mixed feelings about this platform.

9. Thanks 🙂

10. f*ck vr! augmented reality will drive this right into the ground as soon as the hololense hits the market. Vr isn't immersive, it just ties you down and isolates you.

11. We are definitely still in early days of VR but it's great seeing all the new content slowly trickle out.

12. VR will not fail. Speed of development needs to increase. Easier said than done, but the additive effect of learning from experience will make it work. Just imagine 5 years down the line. If no VR, what? It has to happen, we are just in the painful part of Gartner's Hype Curve right now, possibly the trough of disillusionment.

    VR has to happen else we won't get to AR. Not Augmented Reality, Alternate Reality, where you need a flashing red light to know it's not real. Where we have neural helmets and implants and where our perception of time is slowed to the point where an hour of AR experience feels like a month. That's where I'd like to be.

13. Can you please work on getting the gushing tension out of your voice please?

14. Agreed, but seriously, I'm not making any declarations until at least 2018 about VR. This was the start (and the rest of the year will be), and 2017 will be the shot to let people know if gaming on VR will be huge or not. I really don't expect much beyond proof of concepts this year. Nice smaller games, attempts at 'what could be' larger, etc.

15. VR is an amazing idea but it will be 1 or 2 years until it becomes awesome. similar to the 1st iphone.

16. Without lots of interesting titles VR will go down – like 3D movies did.

17. So there are games device exclusive??? Sucks

18. WEIRD MOVING BIRD AT 3:18

19. VR is a gimmick that won't survive past a few years. I've even tried the Oculus and none of the games were that interesting to me.

20. Why she is always doing that face at the end?

21. So right now we have a collection of short but fun games for virtual reality that most consumers can't play because the hardware for it is too expensive? This sounds alot like the situation in the 80's when video games started to appear in the first place, which of course warrants a question. Virtual Reality Arcades anyone?

22. "This could've been the biggest E3 for virtual reality ever"

    Was it not? I see a lot of progress being made.

23. Oculus had most of the games because they probably paid the developers to make them all exclusive. They are not good for VR as a whole as they want less competition in the market, thus holding back the industry.

24. Dope video???

25. Omg PlayStation VR comes out on my birthday!!

26. And here I am. Just with a Gear VR.

27. Ryse is a pretty good game. One of my favorite Xbox One games. Also one of the best looking/sounding games. I would be happy with big budget VR games of that quality.

28. Colocar uma maquiagem nessa cara feia né fia..

29. DO U PAY THE VERGE MONEY TO LET YOU MAKE THIS?!!!!

30. Formula for adi /verge. Throw a bunch interesting tidbits and 'potential' one liners. Then retract statement with a non-commital 'but…' Upload to youtube with pretty much a pointless review

31. If Scorpio would support HTC Vive, that would be it. I would totally buy that. Bye bye sony. But its not going to happen

32. "And with headsets already going on sale, the clock is running down" blank face ? lol

33. I remember when VR tried to make it in the 90's. I played the VR video game at the mall that charged 5 bucks for just a few minutes of play. It was an exciting new technology but was just to expensive to own. It disappeared for a long time and I'm so glad to see that its back with affordable prices and great looking games. This is a rebirth and obviously has a way to go but shows such great potential.

34. i didn't really think about it till she said it. 2 of the 3 headsets are already out and there still isn't enough buzz for the mainstream. looks like psvr is the last hope for a long successful vr future…

35. Valve could be the one to make the killer App for VR, one that would get the attention from traditional consumers and more developers. It could be a known franchise, like HL, Portal or something completely new!!

36. she ugly af

37. nice job and thanks for the concise summary adi.

38. Negative freaking Nellie