VR Sports? It Can Be a Billion Dollar Business, Says Intel CEO (axios.com) 43
Ina Fried, reporting for Axios: Intel CEO Brian Krzanich told Axios on Thursday that he sees virtual reality not only changing the face of sports, but also potentially being a multi-billion-dollar business for the chip giant. "I think it can be a couple billion dollar business" he said in an interview after his appearance at Code Conference. "And the reason is this is a whole new feed... things like advertising, the ability to take that data and sell it... we're the only ones who we believe can produce this stuff."
It'll be as huge as 3D TV! (Score:3)
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VR is a Billion for Doctors handling motion sickness, etc.
You don't need to go to a doctor for motion sickness. You just turn off the computer, and five minutes later you're fine.
I get motion sickness with on screen VR, when the turning and acceleration don't match what my inner ears sense. But helmeted VR is okay, because my head physically turns with the display. Also, motion sickness goes away as your body adjusts to it, just like sea sickness. When I was at sea, I felt nauseous for the first week, and then I was fine.
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Different airforces tried that idea with the people who wanted to become pilots. They would educated for a while them only to find out later they could not cope with what was expected of them.
Smarter nations just tested people first entering and would never accepted people who could not cope. No course work was wasted on people who would fail.
VR is great for some people. For others it just will not w
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You don't see old people on roller coasters either. Are roller coasters a flop?
But roller coaster manufacturing isn't a billion dollar business either.
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Not the OP.
One path: Kids play with VR from a young age and get used to it.
Second path: Content developers learn to keep up mostly up and down mostly down.
Third path: Fucking with the users inner ear using something new.
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You do develop resistance to VR sickness. But what do I know, I've only been playing with/coding for them for 20 years.
Just as many 3d shooters will make old folks queasy, but we don't notice. Inner ear is unsynced there too.
The second path already works, just most VR devs are clueless.
You could put ultrasonics into the inner ear. Have them constructively interfere on the parts of the organ you want to be 'sending'. No I'm not going to let them test the prototype on me. But cats are INXS in my neighb
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Airplanes cannot work, it's basic physics. Airplanes are heavier than air so they cannot fly, it's a scientific fact! /MoransWithoutAnyPhysicsKnowledge
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Exactly! Finally someone who understands!
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So you have 50 paths but instead of selling these ideas to a bigger companies or making your own product incorporating these ideas you're just posting to Slashdot? Yeah, seems totally legit.
Re: VR is a flop (Score:2)
Some VR does this for some people. Roomscale VR without artificial locomotion does not.
Try things before commenting on them.
If these trends continue (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Gotta love prediction, especially when it's consistent with your worldview.
VR sports, nope. But VR pron can be (Score:3)
a billion dollar business
Only Intel can do this stuff!! (Score:2)
From the headline:
we're the only ones who we believe can produce this stuff.
I doubt it, I think Intel can make some OK processors but they really aren't great at innovating.
They actually think that people buy their stuff because it says "Intel Inside".
What really irks me though is when they show concepts and then wait for someone else to actually implement. I do give them credit with the Intel NUC though, that's one nice, cheap headless server for the home.
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They actually think that people buy their stuff because it says "Intel Inside".
Various sources put intel somewhere between the 6th and 14th most powerful brand... I think they're right.
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Yeah, nothing to do with the merits of thei processors.
We could argue all day about why the brand is valuable, but the average schmoe knows intel inside but doesn't know jack diddly squat about a cpu.
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Hatsune Miku.
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Pushing VR is all about pushing a new CPU and the needed upgrades.
4K ready and VR ready.
Take that data and sell it.. (Score:2)
the ability to take that data and sell it..
Now if I am Intel's product instead of being Intel's customer, I hope they are going to give me their chips for free.
Bleah (Score:2)
"And the reason is this is a whole new feed... things like advertising, the ability to take that data and sell it... we're the only ones who we believe can produce this stuff."
Advertising is the worst part of sports. I hope Intel has nothing to do with VR if their only interest is selling eyeballs. Way to cheapen it.
VR is created by artists to be consumed at internet scale, no gatekeepers required.