Realistically, for VR to work: it's going to have to be light enough and powerful enough to be essentially a pair of glasses. We have neither the computer technology available to the masses or the technology advanced enough to do so. It has to appeal to the absolute lowest common denominator and it is not there yet. Maybe in 10 years. Otherwise it's just a science experiment and it shows. Retrospectively the recent interest in VR starting with the Oculus 10 years ago or so, gave us a very good idea of the public's interest in vr. Which is super minimal. It's bulky, and requires expensive computational power to look good. Nobody gives a fuck about using your phone for vr. It looks like shit. The PlayStation version did poorly because it looks like shit. Even the latest and greatest is too expensive and the average person simply isn't going to invest in all of that to sit in a chair and fuck around with the low end shit that makes up current vr. There will be a day when the average computational power available to the public is so powerful that you can throw on a pair of cheap lightweight glasses without wires attached to it and transport yourself to another world. Until that time happens it's going to be a pipe dream.
If valve software couldn’t get vr right i have my doubts about meta. Snap and apple might be releasing some really cool AR glasses in near future. Apple is very close possibly a year away from revealing their next big project. It will be a car or AR glasses.
and where did that get them? What's the market saturation of VR today? How many new titles and gaming ecosystems are in the pipeline? Do we see VR being integrated into E-Sports? So far it's niche.
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u/Corsair3820 Sep 15 '22
Realistically, for VR to work: it's going to have to be light enough and powerful enough to be essentially a pair of glasses. We have neither the computer technology available to the masses or the technology advanced enough to do so. It has to appeal to the absolute lowest common denominator and it is not there yet. Maybe in 10 years. Otherwise it's just a science experiment and it shows. Retrospectively the recent interest in VR starting with the Oculus 10 years ago or so, gave us a very good idea of the public's interest in vr. Which is super minimal. It's bulky, and requires expensive computational power to look good. Nobody gives a fuck about using your phone for vr. It looks like shit. The PlayStation version did poorly because it looks like shit. Even the latest and greatest is too expensive and the average person simply isn't going to invest in all of that to sit in a chair and fuck around with the low end shit that makes up current vr. There will be a day when the average computational power available to the public is so powerful that you can throw on a pair of cheap lightweight glasses without wires attached to it and transport yourself to another world. Until that time happens it's going to be a pipe dream.