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Xbox co-creator says VR still doesn't have a "killer app"


The co-creator of the original Xbox console, Seamus Blackley, said VR still doesn't have a "killer app" yet and that's …

Watch on YouTube He continued: "Everybody has a different kind of personal fantasy and then, at least in my experience, when you are given the environment that you sort of fantasised about you're like 'OK' and you just want to take the headset off, because it's this hot, heavy thing. "When you lower the structure so much for the player that they are in the headset and they look around everywhere, in principle as an elevator pitch that sounds great," he said. Synapse is another great VR game that "epitomises everything great about virtual reality", as reads our review, while Beat Saber- available on almost every headset - is arguably VR's "killer app".

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