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What price would you pay for a home virtual reality system??
Any price - it would be so cool I'd want one really bad
3%
 3%  [ 25 ]
10,000 USD to 5,000USD
3%
 3%  [ 23 ]
5,000USD to 2,000 USD
4%
 4%  [ 29 ]
2,000 to 1,000 USD
7%
 7%  [ 52 ]
1,000USD to 500.00USD
7%
 7%  [ 54 ]
under 500.00USD
10%
 10%  [ 74 ]
I already have one (honestly)
3%
 3%  [ 23 ]
No interest at any price - kinda like a hovercraft - cool but pointless
43%
 43%  [ 305 ]
They'd have to have a killer game like DOOM or a STAR WARS game before I'd consider it
14%
 14%  [ 99 ]
I bought a virtual boy once and will never buy a home system ever again - ripoffs!!!
2%
 2%  [ 21 ]
Total Votes : 705

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yoda313
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Post Posted: Mar 06, 2007 17:43 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
If you could get a home virtual reality system complete with goggles and gloves how much would you pay for it???

I honestly don't know if there are any 'consumer' level virtual reality units available. But lets say some company comes out with one that would be home friendly. What would you be willing to pay??? What killer game or app would you need to have in order to make the investment? Would just owning one be enough to get one???
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gadgetguy
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Post Posted: Mar 06, 2007 18:23 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
No thanks. I'd rather wait for a Holodeck
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Post Posted: Mar 06, 2007 18:55 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Not much, I'm sure it would get boring fast.
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Post Posted: Mar 06, 2007 19:11 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
So, lt me be the first to say, If we're talking about its use for Porn, Maybe. Otherwise, not impressed yet.

SCDVD
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Post Posted: Mar 06, 2007 19:22 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Are we talking about a pair of goggles or a Holodeck? I'd pay $0 for a pair of goggles. A Holodeck - different story.

yoda313
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Post Posted: Mar 06, 2007 20:02 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
@ scdvd - I'm reffering to current technology - ie the goggles.....
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TBoneit
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Post Posted: Mar 07, 2007 09:49 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
No interested....

OTOH if there were a place like "Dreampark" from the book series by Niven, I'd be there in a flash.

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Park-Larry-Niven/dp/0441167306

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TheFamilyMan
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Post Posted: Mar 07, 2007 18:42 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Not interested.

A few years ago I was at SGI (Silicon Graphics) and demo'ed one of their "reality centers", which is basically a room with wall sized screens and projectors driven by CG. You use stereo glasses triggered by some signal from the screen that creates a very crisp in-your-face 3D image. Absolutely awesome walking through molecules, battlefields and the human body. No gloves, but used a joystick to position the "models" being viewed. They actually used to market and sell these things; I don't know if they do anymore (they're lucky just to be in business at the present time).
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vico1
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Post Posted: Mar 08, 2007 17:49 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
For a fully working Holodeck, like on the "Star Trek" Series...What would I pay...
I'd give everything I own, hock the house, the dog, & the wife.
(J/K about the wife...well... maybe smile.gif )
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oldfart13
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Post Posted: Mar 08, 2007 20:43 Posts View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Blind in one eye means I can't see for beans as it is so virtual reality won't work for me. Now if it was for those electronic eyes like Steve Austin (The Six Million Dollar Man) had.....

FulciLives
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Post Posted: Mar 08, 2007 21:35 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Considering that I am fat and lazy ... well ... I find the Nintendo Wii to be a bit to much work so ... I doubt I will like virtual reality.

My guess is I would have to move around way to much. Fuck that. Give me a joystick/pad and 1080p and I'm there!

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Post Posted: Mar 08, 2007 21:36 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
gadgetguy wrote:
No thanks. I'd rather wait for a Holodeck


vico1 wrote:
For a fully working Holodeck, like on the "Star Trek" Series...What would I pay...


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lordsmurf
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Post Posted: Mar 09, 2007 01:29 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
One meeeellion dollars. laugh.gif
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Post Posted: Mar 09, 2007 06:01 Posts View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Nothing I prefer ...reality .... not virtual crap.

codecpage
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Post Posted: Mar 09, 2007 09:04 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
A virtual flightsim would be cool, but my chiropractic says the goggles are too heavy confused.gif
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thecoalman
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Post Posted: Mar 09, 2007 09:30 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Oddly if this were come to pass it would solve a lot of the obesity problems here in the US. laugh.gif I saw virtual reality ball posted somewhere once where the person walked around inside the ball which was stationary. I'd imagine that would be quite strenuous playing Doom.

For a game like doom it would be superb. To go for a walk in the woods.... think I'll go for a walk in the real woods.

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kinda like a hovercraft - cool but pointless


Unless you live next to a river like me where there are many obstructions underneath the water. That would actually be quite a nice toy to have where I live. wink.gif
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TBoneit
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Post Posted: Mar 09, 2007 10:34 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
FulciLives wrote:
Considering that I am fat and lazy ... well ... I find the Nintendo Wii to be a bit to much work so ... I doubt I will like virtual reality.

My guess is I would have to move around way to much. Fuck that. Give me a joystick/pad and 1080p and I'm there!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman


Fat and Lazy is bad??

Most labor saving inventions are done by lazy people.

vico1
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Post Posted: Mar 09, 2007 10:59 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
TBoneit wrote:


Fat and Lazy is bad??

Most labor saving inventions are done by lazy people.

Don't know about Lazy tho...


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Post Posted: Mar 19, 2007 18:55 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
depends how virtual and how much and how drunk i would be
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