{"id":134993,"date":"2022-01-31T09:23:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/sword-art-online-inspired-vr-headset-cancelled-due-to-niche-appeal-manufacturing-issues"},"modified":"2022-01-31T09:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T17:23:15","slug":"sword-art-online-inspired-vr-headset-cancelled-due-to-niche-appeal-manufacturing-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/sword-art-online-inspired-vr-headset-cancelled-due-to-niche-appeal-manufacturing-issues","title":{"rendered":"Sword Art Online-inspired VR Headset Cancelled Due to Niche Appeal, Manufacturing Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kNMhmJH1nCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Diver-X announced that it\u2019s pulling the plug on HalfDive, announcing that all backers would not be charged for funds collected.<\/p>\n<p>The company mentions three major concerns, which essentially boil down to its niche appeal, inability to reduce costs by producing major components in-house, and resultant cash flow issues due to scalability issues. You can read the full text in <a href=\"https:\/\/diver-x.jp\/news\/en\/20220131.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the company\u2019s blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were faced with the brutal reality that no matter how optimized and multifunctional our device may be for use in sleeping-posture, it is only a replacement of existing VR devices and not yet an interface that brings innovative experiences,\u201d Diver-X says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Diver-X announced that it\u2019s pulling the plug on HalfDive, announcing that all backers would not be charged for funds collected. The company mentions three major concerns, which essentially boil down to its niche [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}