In recent years, major tech conglomerates like Facebook/Oculus, Sony, Valve, and Samsung have been bullish on virtual reality's ability to change the computing landscape. But Epic Games founder and Unreal developer Tim Sweeney seems much more convinced that augmented reality "will be the biggest technological revolution that happens in our lifetimes."
That doesn't mean Sweeney is down on VR, per se. Epic is working to integrate its popular Unreal Engine to work with many virtual reality headsets and has made VR demos like "Showdown" that show off the potential of devices like the Oculus Rift. "They will be adopted everywhere," Sweeney said of this first wave of VR headsets. "Oculus and the HTC hardware is so good, you can go for minutes at a time and not realize that a game world is not real."
But in statements at the Chinajoy gaming trade show this week (as reported by Venturebeat), Sweeney said he saw virtual reality as just the first step to a single, unified augmented reality platform that could replace our screen-filled digital world—if given "a full decade to play out."
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