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Another VR tech demo fail...
we don't have hardware issue here, we got a software issue
With every fucking clown mega corp looking to corner the market, no progress made... I am sorry this is not a cell phone, it won't pop like that.
Open source it, create standards and inter operability. Until that is done, I am not buying anymore of shiti hardware demos.
I don't think it is even a software issue. The problem is the use case. The VR market just isn't that useful outside of gaming and even within gaming, it isn't worth it.
I think we just have not received the APP/GAME to make the platform viable.
You could be right, the format just aint no good no matter how good of game/app it is.
Or maybe devs are working too much to port normal game into VR instead of taking VR centric approach.
There are a lot of VR centric games out there on other platforms. Yet demand for those VR systems are also very low.
VR in its current form doesn't seem to be worth it and the additional AR capabilities don't seem worth it either.
I'd get VR googles if I were really hardcore into flight sims and had a modern flight sim that I were willing to sink a lot of time into. I think that they're legitimately a good match there. And they compete favorably both in price and performance with some of the alternatives that people have used in the past for that, like a wall of monitors and eye-tracking systems.
But I don't think that they've met the threshold for being worthwhile for most people in most other genres.