I got a VR set this year. The ecosystem is a weird wasteland of projects where the funding suddenly dried up, and there’s a thin veneer of cryptocurrency flavored shit over everything.
I think the tech is good enough. It’s just a business problem, where all the businesses either want to be the new app store controlling it, or the people who make premium headsets at a markup. But what they actually need is to force people to give a damn, which either means exclusive games (Nintendo is the only company still in the exclusive games on their own hardware business, and they didn’t do it), or VR sets so cheap that random developers think they can successfully sell VR games (nobody wants to be the IBM to someone else’s Microsoft).
And the Toki Pona community as well is super into VR. And there’s some hearty overlap between those two communities as I understand it as well (which, I’m not sure where the connection happened, but anyway).
VR never got a game mainstream enough for the madden and cod crowd or anything compelling enough for the gun-pointed-at-printer crowd so the only people who really got into it are tech fad types, and it’s a loop of there not being software so there aren’t customers so nobody with a marketing budget funds software.
Whatever happened to vr shit? Remember when that was hot? Now no one talks about it and people are still gaming traditionally.
I got a VR set this year. The ecosystem is a weird wasteland of projects where the funding suddenly dried up, and there’s a thin veneer of cryptocurrency flavored shit over everything.
I think the tech is good enough. It’s just a business problem, where all the businesses either want to be the new app store controlling it, or the people who make premium headsets at a markup. But what they actually need is to force people to give a damn, which either means exclusive games (Nintendo is the only company still in the exclusive games on their own hardware business, and they didn’t do it), or VR sets so cheap that random developers think they can successfully sell VR games (nobody wants to be the IBM to someone else’s Microsoft).
Aren’t there like 2 games for VR that are actually commonly played (VRChat, beatsaber, and maybe half life alyx)?
There are tons of really good games It just depends how you can manage playing in VR. The sessions are also quite short
Pretty much.
Beatsaber is very good though.
idk how commonly played it is but Rumble is the coolest VR shit i’ve ever seen
They did, it was called Labo. Labo didn’t sell very well. And that’s despite having exclusive games and being cheap.
Labo was fun for 15 minutes until I got a headache and realized it wasn’t better than 2d
I think the furries (who are good and wholesome and against whom I will not hear a word) are still pretty into VR
And the Toki Pona community as well is super into VR. And there’s some hearty overlap between those two communities as I understand it as well (which, I’m not sure where the connection happened, but anyway).
VR never got a game mainstream enough for the madden and cod crowd or anything compelling enough for the gun-pointed-at-printer crowd so the only people who really got into it are tech fad types, and it’s a loop of there not being software so there aren’t customers so nobody with a marketing budget funds software.
I still use my Valve Index about once or twice a week, right now my top game on it is Iron Rebellion which is like if DCS had a Gundam module.
Fucking sold
I think it’s pretty popular in sim racing still
And flight sims. Seems cool, but I’m too broke for it lol
Happens every decade or so
It’s coming still. There’s going to be a giant market for it imo.
Maybe 3D movies can make a comeback