VR Sports, Ninja Trainer reveal VR’s potential for destruction

I hit a man last week. Actually, I hit him three times. Now, these were not deliberate acts of violence. No — they were accidental moments of virtual reality havoc.

If you remember the early days of Nintendo’s Wii motion-controller console, you can probably recall people breaking their televisions because they were flailing their arms around with the Wii Remotes and Nunchuks. Well, those days are back thanks to VR. Both the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive support motion controls, and they are going to specialize in games that where you are standing up, moving around and swinging your arms like a wrecking ball. Experts, like the analysts at tech adviser Digi-Capital, claim VR will grow into a $30 billion business by 2020, but it may also stimulate the economy in the form of replacement televisions and medical bills.