VR Gaming Is The Hottest Thing In Online Gambling
There's not many technologies that have endured as many false starts as Virtual Reality, but fingers crossed it looks like finally exploding into the mainstream very soon indeed. Few industries are more aware of the potential offered by VR than the gambling and casino trades. It's no secret that all of the major game development studios have been working away on top secret VR projects for a couple of years now. At time of writing there's already been a few very early beta releases and previews that show the amazing potential VR has when applied to gambling, especially when it applies to online gaming sites. In this article we'll take a look at why VR is so important to the future of the industry, and how it's going to revolutionize the way we enjoy our games.
Without question the gaming industry needs something fresh to maintain the incredible forward momentum of recent years. Even though there's never been so many people enjoying casino games, the fact is that most of the mainstream technologies have been pretty much perfected. Standards continue to rise but by smaller increments and secondary details rather than in a more revolutionary sense of evolution. Just check out the games at Royal Vegas Online Casino for example, it's pretty difficult to improve on what we already have.
Virtual Reality on the other hand offers an incredible amount of potential for the gaming industry, and some would say that it's impending arrival is going to be just in the nick of time.
In it's most logical application VR is going to make casino games much more immersive. Literally 'pressing' buttons on a virtual slot machine, laying chips at a table or even holding and playing cards are all well within the realms of possibility. Bookies with commercial rights to broadcast live matches will no doubt offer an immersive, in play betting arena - but that's likely a little further down the line. For now the focus will be upon making the casino come to life, and the possibilities are endless.
Online casinos have long striven to add a social element to their sites. It's never really picked up because up until now there's rarely been a communal aspect to the games that they offer. Most players visit, play their games in silence, and leave. VR offers the potential to make the casino actually social and interactive between players. They could be personal friends, maybe they'll be strangers, but adding a live and interactive element to casino games is potentially going to be massive.
Besides games there's also projected to be lounges and social areas for players to interact outside of the pit. The dream is that the casino will become a form of virtual social network, still clearly based on gambling but with all the fun and sociability that is found in a 'real world' casino.
Technology moves at an incredible pace and it's projected that VR headset ownership will be relatively widespread before the turn of the decade. Remember it's not just the gambling industry that's falling over itself to get involved in this tech. VR is the future of TV, Movies and social media and all combined there's literally next to no chance that it'll fail this time. Quite simply there's too much invested, and with this expectation there will be rapid increases in the technological qualities of the hardware.
Most people expect that future VR is going to be designed to be as portable as possible, likely using a tethered smartphone to run the applications. In regards to gambling this offers all sorts of possibilities. People will be able to congregate together and then take a virtual trip down the Vegas Strip, interacting both in person and via the VR link. People attending race meets will be able to view the race from the jokey's 360 perspective. The list goes on - and it's all going to be about making the gaming experience completely immersive.