Yesterday I read a couple of pessimistic articles on the future of VR, or at least one is very pessimistic and the other is realistic but would be considered pessimistic by some here :
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/26/this-vr-cycle-is-dead/
https://medium.com/@janhorsk/is-vr-finally-dying-24381ea96c93
Unlike some of you (apart from GilesColey and one or two others), I remember the 3D TV hype all too well. It's illuminating to refer back to the early days of the Namepros 3D thread :
https://www.namepros.com/threads/the-official-3d-showcase-and-discussion.644496/
That thread dates from 2010 but there was an earlier one that was actually deleted by the moderators because all it consisted of was domainers trying to convince other domainers why names like 3D-KayakSurfing.de were going to be worth $xx,xxx for certain. When that later 3D thread started, it was full of sceptical heads trying to keep a lid on things. In other things, we've almost come full circle it seems. When 3D hype was all the rage, it was the policy of NamePros to delete a thread that was entirely showcasing and hyping bad 3D names. Seven years later, the naysayers of 3D (at least in the form they were discussing at the time) have been proven entirely right, and yet today VR and tech threads that
DON'T consist entirely of showcasing bad names and hype get deleted (or posts do), and VRDommy has had to set up this thread almost as a 'sin bin' for us foolish sceptics who like to actually discuss the pros and cons of each tech and whether the hype surrounding them is justified.
On the second or third page of the 3D thread somebody makes the comment that 'technology has no relation to the value of domain names'. I wonder what exactly has changed? I guess it was the success of cloud names a few years ago? I mean, I think that was the first and still the biggest case of a new tech generating large numbers of sizeable domain sales?
Rather interesting view and thanks for taking the time to post it.
I don't like the comparison of 3D TV to VR for you need to have been behind the scenes of the market to fully understand why it did not proceed.
For it would have, if not for major players pulling the rug out from under it.
But the tech continued to manifest itself and is how VR re-surged itself !
Current VR is built from where 3D TV left off. Only now it was truly fully stereoscopic.
I never went deep with 3DTV names.
Just a few but I knew 3D as a visual tech itself was not going away. I still hold many names.
If you know anything of the history of visual tech, you know that if it makes it better for entertainment (top of which is adult) it will find it's way to the market. People will buy it.
I remember quite clearly how video tape changed everything. Did it really disappear... no... it evolved into DVD and then streaming media. There will be more people watching iMax 3D movies with their HMD over the next 3 years than probably any other single thing.
All steaming from the net.
OK... so you won't call it 3DTV but that is what it is !
The names have changed to protect the guilty !
I was early on the play's with 3D and VR. But remembering that VR was a thing once that never appeared in the real market, many of the names were still held by those that knew it was only a matter of time and technology would advance enough that something more spectacular could be delivered at a fair price.
When I search for names, I always use a method that shows me the reg date of the name when it has been taken. Valuable fast info with your research. Many of those names were reg'd 5 years before and 3-8 years ahead of my looks.
And that is how I knew that 'the best' VR names were held long before I and others started looking by 2010.
I had many on drop watches. And picked some up.
So you are left with finding the niche's that will be popular enough to drive a high level of need for names to represent it. And wait for most alternative names to be used up or overpriced to have value for what you hold.
? 'technology has no relation to the value of domain names' ?
True !
The need for a 'individual name' brings value and competition for it brings more value.
The 'riches' of those in need say something about what level it is likely to play.
But we lump the high need of individual cases together and think of 'the tech'.
Something we can not determine yet with new media formats.
But I bought most of my names with expectations of resale in the $900-2500 range.
I'm not greedy. But I do hope for more on many.
I should be remembered most down the road for trying to lower those hyped expectations
(and taking a lot of flack for it.... LOL).
Yea... I guess you could call this a sin-bin but I think of it as the
home of the domain misfits.
Most of us don't seem to fit the expected mold. (think 'starfish and coffee' - prince)
But truth be known on the formation of this thread...
It was a rejected post from the VR thread on the day Intel announced 'ALLOY'.
After my post within a hour of the news release,
It created a flurry of posts on the thread that were moved here later that day and I just sorta refused to post anymore 'things' in that thread when it may be moved or deleted.
I found no benefit for a discussion that can not transpire
just for the mere mentioning of a term like holodeck or teleporter etc.
So here I sit. Promoting the idea that all 'new media' talk is welcome here.
Even those that I do not agree with. You never learn from what you do not hear.
So it became the dumping ground for rejected posts from the VR thread and some others.
What say misfits ? LOL - One of my infamous tiring eyeball posts.
