Best Buy closes nearly half of its Oculus Rift VR demo stations - farberparocce

If you're hoping to get under one's skin a hands-on demo with an Oculus Break anytime soon, your options just got slimmer. Business Insider reports that 200 of Best Buy's 500 Rift demonstrate stations are being closed, making virtual realism a trifle less accessible to the masses.

There's conflicting information about why this is happening, with Oculus's "seasonal changes" explanation implying information technology's a standard stake-holiday scale back. Topper Buy workers reportedly told Business concern Insider "It was green for them to go years without giving a single demonstration" though, which sounds a little more damning for the computer programme as a unhurt.

And I can't really blessed them. While I agree with Oculus that demos are intrinsic to selling people on virtual reality—it's really the only way to "puzzle" it—I can't help but recoil thinking about the beat-up, grimy present stations I used equally a kid to try out new consoles. I'm flashing back to grabbing that Nintendo 64 controller and hoping that it's not broken, Oregon crusty in the assembled Kool-Attention and Cheez-Its from 100 kids before you.

Then gues the same position, demur it goes on your face.

Yeah, VR present environments are already whole plenty at conventions, and that's hardly one weekend's worth of use. An ongoing Rift installation at your local Best Buy? I could picture how citizenry would be fewer-than-thrilled to give information technology a try.

Of feed there are plenty of different explanations. Peradventur your average Best Buy visitor isn't tech-savvy enough to care about virtual reality. Maybe there wasn't enough word of honor-of-oral fissure buzz to reach the multitude who would be fascinated. Peradventur Oculus has just garnered too much icky press of late.

Maybe people just aren't interested in virtual reality.

That last one would embody most disappointing to me, though signs so far point to companies (at least the ones World Health Organization make hardware) sticking information technology out for the long halt. When Optic or HTC throws in the towel, and so I call back VR enthusiasts can be worried. A few demo stations shutting down? Maybe a ruby flag, Oregon maybe just a victim of circumstance.

And for its part, Oculus seems committed to a smarter demo strategy. Best Buy will still have Rifts along-hand, though elastic demos will be incomprehensive to just the larger markets. Eye also told Business Insider, "We're going to find opportunities to do regular events and pop ups in retail locations and local communities throughout the year."

If that sounds like something you'd glucinium interested in, well, celebrate an ear to the ground.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/411991/best-buy-closes-nearly-half-of-its-oculus-rift-vr-demo-stations.html

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