India to Experience VR at A Cost-Effective Price

BENGALURU: Most of us have heard and read the reviews about the Virtual Reality (VR) devices and few of us experienced its innovation in the VR tech meets. Now, the Oculus Rift VR device is all set to cruise into commercial markets across different countries, including India. Whereas, the high end HTC Vive and Sony’s PlayStation VR are will hit the markets later this year, reports Tech2.

Recently, India’s own Karbonn Mobiles has entered into VR field with two low-cost VR glasses-equipped smartphones. The Karbonn Quattro L52 smartphone VR device is priced at 8,490 and Karbonn Mach Six comes at a price of 7490. There is a huge growth potential for VR technology with the ever-expanding smartphone market in India. However, affordability of VR devices will be the key to encourage mass adoption of the VR experience in India.

“Karbonn’s VR glasses available with Karbonn Quattro L52 and Mach Six are an effort to address this challenge by bringing VR technology to consumers across economic spectrum at disruptive price-points in the under 10,000 bracket,” Karbonn Mobiles executive director Shashin Devsare. “With low-cost VR devices, at least people will know what VR is. They will be able to experience the immersive VR because Indian devices will prove more cost-effective,” Vishal Tripathi, research director at global market consultancy firm Gartner.

“If the Indian players later start using a better VR technology then they will be able to create a real ‘rift.’ In India, VR adoption is in an initial stage and the country has a huge geographical and economical divide. Not everyone is looking to buy a 20,000 VR device,” Tripathi said. A VR device within the range of 7000-8,000 will prove a real gateway for Indian consumers. “The low-cost VR devices can easily reach the large youth population,” Tripathi added.

Facebook owned Rift comes packed with 30 VR games, thousands of Facebook 360 degree videos, film shorts and much more. You can explore over 2,00,000 incredible destinations with Oculus 360 Photos. Oculus expects to ship 6,00,000 units of the VR headset by the end of the year. The high-end HTC Vive - with a built-in phone, front-facing camera and room sensors, users can move around their homes while playing a game.

According to Andrew House, chief executive at Sony Computer Entertainment, “virtual reality represents a new frontier for gaming, one that will forever change the way users interact with games.” Sony's VR headsets are designed to plug into PlayStation 4 (PS4) consoles. More than 230 developers are reportedly working on games for PlayStation VR.

Both the Karbonn devices currently have two games ‘Lamper VR First Flight’ and ‘Deep Space VR’.

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