it will never not be funny to me that Valve released VR’s killer app, and the killer app killed VR.
Nobody else has the time or budget to make something like Alyx, and strapping a monitor to your face is obnoxious in ideal situations, let alone to for a library broadly of $40 tech demos that last 15min.
Hey, it’s ok here to admit that you had a shitty experience that one time with VR. We’re not that other place. No need to inflate the whinge to full-blown hyperbole when grasping for validity, friend. Breathe. 😋
Alright alright. Twenty dollar tech demos that last 45min. Please don’t sue me for using rhetoric to emphasize a point.
There are plenty of full/long games now, and there are tools to effectively play a lot of pancake games in vr with full stereoscopic vision. GTAV in VR is hilarious.
It’s not the lack of games preventing VR adoption, it’s price, bulky tech, and inconsistent experience.
I am pretty for VR, and I agree with you about the range of available software for it, hyperbole excluded. There really isn’t much actually taking full advantage of what’s possible for games with the current hardware outside of Alyx and some flatspace conversions like Hitman or GTA. Loads of cheap, fun-for-5-minutes arcade-like things or artsy “experiences” that are not even really games, tho.
I think you could make a fun VR game where you row a boat and do flag semaphore. I’m not gonna develop that shit, though.
Bold of you to say that on lemmy with all the nerds, def a hot take here. Of course if you ask any group of normal people they would all agree VR is an absolute waste of money with no value whatsoever. Watch as when the new Steam Frame releases it’ll be around $1,500 and you’ll hear nothing but positive things here.
I haven’t bought VR but man I was so excited for the Steam Frame. I desperately want to play Half Life Alyx.
I mean there’s some reason to be excited but also every reason to believe it’ll be deeply expensive
Yeah it’s not going to be cheap, but I don’t really care? A cheap one would suck.
It’s not for everybody. Specifically I never recommend it.
To be fair it does have a ton of extra costs for hardware features not everyone is going to use, I mean they have a standalone processor but most people are just going to use their PC.
Same here, though I fully expect to need to buy several bottles of dramamine
It supports teleportation movement (where you point at a place and you’re transported there instantly), which is way better on the 'ol inner ear.
As it stands right now VR is still very much in the enthusiast territory. The only ones I’ve seen really dropping money on the full VR experience, including body trackers and the like, are furries who hang out a lot on VRChat and Revolite… Or Resolite… I forgot what the other one is called.
Now the idea seems to be that Valve is going to make VR way more accessible with the Steam Gear but… Eh… We’ll see.
Tbh makes sense and this is a pretty massive sign of what’s to come. Most people simply don’t want to use VR headsets and with meta soon to leave the VR space I expect it to quickly become a technology relegated to hyper-nerds within the next five years (granted the grand majority of meta quest owners never actually use it).
I don’t mind using VR, but there is a larger barrier to use it versus just sitting in my chair and using my computer normally.
It’s funny that I totally agree with you, but I just realized that in a few minutes I’m putting on my full body tracking thigh highs, arm warmers, and sports bra so I can hang out and play games with my friends as a tiny dragon lol.
I love my htc vive, I like* my psvr2, but my eyesight is so bad I cannot play without glasses any longer. And neither headset can be played with glasses, yes I can get custom glasses made that fit into the headset, but those are an additional cost which will need to be replaced again when my prescription changes.
*i say like because I have only used it less than an hour because of my eyesight.
Its an amazing game but VR makes the experience.
I’ve had it for years and never played it! I’ll install it this weekend!
Awesome. I love Moss.
