Tornado VR video in Oculus Quest: Tornado struck Illinois USA in Virtual Reality 2018

The latest innovation from Oculus — the Oculus Quest — was supposed to take the digital world by storm, but a relatively muted response from the tech community has many scratching their heads and wondering if VR is really all that it’s made out to be. This is a drastic change from just a few years ago, when we were regularly told that VR was the way of the future, and that soon our entire lives would be constructed around alternative virtual realms where the digital sky was the limit. Today, our VR future looks much grimmer than ever before, and many consumers and developers alike are beginning to lose confidence in the so-called way of the future. After examining Oculus’ latest gambit, I’m not surprised to see that VR is slowly but surely losing steam thanks to a number of challenging hurdles that have yet to be surmounted. The new standalone headset is reportedly set to debut on the market at a price of $399, and will begin shipping next year. Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have quite a bit invested in VR, ensuring that it doubtlessly won’t be a total flop. But there are some signs of concern that illustrate our VR future is growing dimmer by the day. On the bright side, I’m glad to see that the once-prohibitive costs of VR technology is slowly but surely going down. Where once VR was nothing more than a fancy fad open only to those with plenty of tech experience and cash to throw away, it’s steadily becoming more mainstream as the technology involved becomes cheaper to...