Answer: It’s so awesome that developers will need to rethink the way they design games. “People ask all the time, how long does Rift integration take?” says Nate Mitchell, one of Oculus VR’s founders and the VP of Product. “The integration for a senior developer doesn’t take long. But designing an awesome experience is so much harder.” The simple, natural interface is a win–but now we just need to totally reinvent gaming paradigms in order to use it.

“It’s like I am a painter and a new color is invented. If that did happen, every painter would be like, ‘I’ve been spending so much time training myself to paint and there was this certain set of things that I understood; and now, all of a sudden, there’s this thing that just fundamentally changes the craft.’ That’s exactly how this feels.”

These words, from Paul Bettner, the creator of Words with Friends, sound like hyperbole, but for many people affordable and effective virtual reality is a paradigm shift for how games are played and how developers make them.

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