The founder of Oculus VR Lucky Palmer at the time admitted that he dreams about the appearance of stand-alone virtual reality devices that do not require connection to a PC. According to recent leaks , Facebook prototype of such a device is already experiencing, and it will be more productive analogues, using computational resources of the smartphone.
(ohn Carmack, at Oculus Connect event addressed to developers of virtual reality applications, encouraging them to increase the requirements for the results of their own labor. First of all, Carmack has made it clear that application developers must make better products. In particular, it is necessary to reduce the time required to download the virtual reality applications on mobile devices. If it takes more than 20 seconds. This is equivalent to the fact that every time your phone unlocks for twenty seconds long, as explained Carmack.
In the future, virtual reality applications need to be developed taking into account the hardware capabilities of mobile devices, according to John Carmack. The logic is simple: the number of the owners of those same smartphones measured in billions of people, and only millions own gaming computer. Desktop platform can be used to develop and "run-in" applications, but it is necessary to adapt them to mobile devices. Naturally, in the context of limited resources it is more difficult for developers to create decent product, but the other way for the industry of virtual reality simply is not as convinced Carmack.