{"id":31792,"date":"2014-06-18T13:31:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T20:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=31792"},"modified":"2014-06-18T13:31:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T20:31:14","slug":"nintendos-shigeru-miyamoto-thinks-virtual-reality-loners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2014\/06\/18\/nintendos-shigeru-miyamoto-thinks-virtual-reality-loners\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s Shigeru Miyamoto thinks virtual reality is for loners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a picture of Nintendo&#8217;s Shigeru Miyamoto playing with the Wii U at E3. That image embodies why he isn&#8217;t a fan of projects like the Oculus Rift or Project Morpheus virtual reality headsets despite its many advocates. The famed creator and game designer told <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/2881482\/interview-nintendo-miyamoto-virtual-reality\/\">Time<\/a> that although Nintendo is doing research into VR, they&#8217;re concentrating on finding ways to make it fun for the whole room and not be such a solitary activity.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When you think about what virtual reality is, which is one person putting on some goggles and playing by themselves kind of over in a corner, or maybe they go into a separate room and they spend all their time alone playing in that virtual reality, that&#8217;s in direct contrast with what it is we&#8217;re trying to achieve with Wii U. And so I have a little bit of uneasiness with whether or not that&#8217;s the best way for people to play.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The most cooperative gameplay the Nintendo Virtual Boy offered was when you smacked your friend in the back of the head during Mario Tennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a picture of Nintendo&#8217;s Shigeru Miyamoto playing with the Wii U at E3. That image embodies why he isn&#8217;t a fan of projects like the Oculus Rift or Project Morpheus virtual reality headsets despite its many advocates. 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