{"id":73431,"date":"2019-11-28T03:07:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T10:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/xbox-chief-phil-spencer-confirms-virtual-reality-not-a-priority-for-companys-next-generation-console\/"},"modified":"2019-11-28T03:07:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T10:07:37","slug":"xbox-chief-phil-spencer-confirms-virtual-reality-not-a-priority-for-companys-next-generation-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/xbox-chief-phil-spencer-confirms-virtual-reality-not-a-priority-for-companys-next-generation-console\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox chief Phil Spencer confirms virtual reality not a priority for company\u2019s next-generation console"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Phil Spencer, head of Xbox at Microsoft, at the Xbox E3 Briefing at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Microsoft Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It looks like virtual reality capabilities won\u2019t be coming to Xbox any time soon.<\/p>\n

VR doesn\u2019t fit with Xbox\u2019s perspective of gaming as a communal experience, Microsoft\u2019s Executive Vice President of Gaming Phil Spencer said in an interview with New Zealand gaming site Stevivor<\/a>. Customers aren\u2019t demanding it, so it won\u2019t be a focal point of the next-generation \u201cProject Scarlett\u201d console<\/a>, according to the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have some issues with VR \u2014 it\u2019s isolating and I think of games as a communal, kind of together experience,\u201d Spencer told Stevivor. \u201cWe\u2019re responding to what our customers are asking for and \u2026 nobody\u2019s asking for VR,\u201d Spencer said. \u201cThe vast majority of our customers know if they want a VR experience, there\u2019s places to go get those. We see the volumes of those on PC and other places.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spencer added that \u201cnobody\u2019s selling millions and millions\u201d of VR headsets. The technology was all the rage a few years ago, but has since cooled off<\/a>. However, a number of companies continue to make significant VR investments, including Facebook, Sony and HTC.<\/p>\n

Microsoft has embraced virtual reality in other parts of the organization. In recent years it has worked with hardware partners on a series of low-cost VR headsets<\/a> under the Windows Mixed Reality banner and built a VR version of the Windows 10 operating system.<\/a><\/p>\n

Augmented reality \u2014 layering digital information on top of the real world, rather than constructing an entirely virtual experience \u2014 is a big priority for Microsoft. Earlier this month, Microsoft began shipping the second generation of its HoloLens AR headset<\/a>, with a price tag of $3,500.<\/p>\n

The bulk of Microsoft\u2019s VR and AR work is focused on the business world. But it also has some important gaming initiatives, most notably the Pokemon Go-esque Minecraft Earth game. This month, the early access version of the game made its U.S. debut<\/a>, following months of testing.<\/p>\n

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Phil Spencer, head of Xbox at Microsoft, at the Xbox E3 Briefing at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Microsoft Photo) It looks like virtual reality capabilities won\u2019t be coming to Xbox any time soon. VR doesn\u2019t fit with Xbox\u2019s perspective of gaming as a communal experience, Microsoft\u2019s Executive Vice President of Gaming Phil Spencer… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":73432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t