Virtual
Reality has come back to life. With the latest development kit by Palmer Luckey
of virtual reality, Oculus Rift,
practically every possible competitor in the gaming industry is now on the
brink of new establishments. We have already talked about Sony’s Project Morpheus, which a piece of equipment like the Oculus Rift; goggles that you wear over
your eyes that project inside the virtual technology. Now, Samsung is heading down the same road, announcing a virtual reality
headset. It could be just speculation, but although nothing is confirmed yet,
they do not deny any facts about the rumors about it. “Virtual
reality is the new craze in the gaming and tech world, and now an unexpected VR
challenger may launch sooner than anyone expected” (Kain, 2014). Of course
after Facebook established it was
interested in joining up with Oculus, VR and
their development kits, many competitors started to stir up their waters
towards new developments.
Sony
did not wait for their announcement and Samsung is trying to stay on the sidelines for now. One positive
advantage Samsung posses over the
other companies is that they intend to merge virtual reality to mobile devices
and this could be a very interesting progress. A very interesting fact is that Samsung is working the software
development with Oculus, VR. In
essence, this means that nobody is at a software design level as Oculus. Plus, Oculus’ merge with Facebook will
definitely help the company expand to broader audiences, outside the gaming
spectrum.
There is a very
interesting and technologically advanced company named Virtalis Make virtual a reality, that is a visualization company
that works on simulations and virtual reality software and design. Of course,
this company might be a real good candidate to consider as competitor because
it does not only have the means and motivation, but also the intelligence and
technology to be so. They specialize in three-dimensional visuals and industry/user
specifics that relate to visualization. Take a look at their latest environmental simulation development with collaboration with ActiveWorks called ActiveCurve.
