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Despite Hype, VR Investment Fades In Q1 2017
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Rygar 8 Bit
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theres been a game drought for vr for a few months itll pick up again once the big hitters start coming out
Same boat.
I have income to splurge but there's no content.
Sony messed up their VR launch big time by having too little supply. I wanted to buy one on impulse for like two to three months but I couldn't find one here and now I've lost the urge to buy given the lack of content.
OfficerRaichu15
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Get some more big software out there and I'll jump in.
Vive is the best out of all of them but the PSVR has more games I would actually buy, not enough quality games.
Chairmanchuck
Member
I think for Games VR its good, but for everything else the resolution holds back what could have been great.
I mean when you play a game in VR you dont notice the resolution, but when you watch a VR video, you instantly notice the low resolution. Often things in the distance feel like you are watching a 2001 rmvb 480p video.
Also for games it really depends on the price. I mean the prices of some of those experiences is far too high compared to a normal game.
Even Oculus still develops some tech-demos like Face Your Fears (with Turtle Rock Studios) instead of developing a real horror game.
I mean when you play a game in VR you dont notice the resolution, but when you watch a VR video, you instantly notice the low resolution. Often things in the distance feel like you are watching a 2001 rmvb 480p video.
Also for games it really depends on the price. I mean the prices of some of those experiences is far too high compared to a normal game.
Even Oculus still develops some tech-demos like Face Your Fears (with Turtle Rock Studios) instead of developing a real horror game.
Diprosalic
Banned
and when is that? serious question, what are the big upcoming VR games?
just from my own experience there are a shit load of PSVR in stores everywhere i look (western europe) and nobody seems to buy them.
cartoon_soldier
Member
We need wireless VR for potential consumer market boom IMO
Majukun
Member
actual space needed for good VR would still be a problem though...
well yea the average joe was saying the same but the hundreds of threads on here was consisting of us getting shot down saying youll see etc, i was saying for ages this isnt going to be a average consumer product and never will be, not for gaming anyway, gaming for most people is a social thing / winding down after school/work, and for many gaming with a vr type device or any form of motion controlls is just effort they dont wanna use because thats not what they game for.
Fallout 4 in VR I guess.
Makes sense. Devs jumped in because it had the word of mouth kind of hype-fire. Strike while the iron is hot and all that.
Problem is the install base is too small, and the units are still way way too expensive. I say this as an owner of both PSVR and Vive. Love them both!
It'll take a few years, but we needed these current headsets to make the inroads they have to get things cheaper and developed faster.
Problem is the install base is too small, and the units are still way way too expensive. I say this as an owner of both PSVR and Vive. Love them both!
It'll take a few years, but we needed these current headsets to make the inroads they have to get things cheaper and developed faster.
Yeah, i think it'll only take off when we get to the point where the tech comes down to something that resembles everyday life glasses, other than that, VR seems to be too much of a hurdle to the point of incovenience. I haven't touched my Gear VR for a long time and everytime i think of it i have no desire to do so.
Yeah, that isn't going to happen.
Doubt it.
MS is waiting holding out on VR for the same reason investors are no longer excited- the industry simply hasn't figured it out.
I'd love to play just Elite Dangerous but that headset cost is so prohibitive. I have to really think to splash out £100-£150 on a synth let alone a huge headset.
Yes. I still think the future is AR. Not in the gaming sector but for general purposes and the business sector. VR is too cut off from reality to be a mainstream device.
I think I'd like a Vive as tech I would like to play with, I own a PSVR as tech that I would like to play on.
Warnen
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With Sony releasing a vr system not fully compatible with there own console, I've completely lost interest in owning anything vr in my home. Best I see is some kind of vr arcade things popping up. Let that go for 5 years then try home again. At least there will be shit to play.
ScaryShark
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VR has always felt like a thing that will get a lot of rave reviews from journalists who get pristine demos and then don't have to personally purchase the product to use it themselves than an actual mass appeal piece of consumer electronics.
Lots of small, shallow experiences and it being very cost prohibitive to the masses is a bad combo.
I want VR to succeed because the more platforms and types of games that exist is good for everyone but a lot has to change with VR for it to ever really reach widespread adoption.
Lots of small, shallow experiences and it being very cost prohibitive to the masses is a bad combo.
I want VR to succeed because the more platforms and types of games that exist is good for everyone but a lot has to change with VR for it to ever really reach widespread adoption.
Interfectum
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Not going to help either. If wired headsets aren't compelling enough people to jump in, it's highly doubtful wireless is going to be a game changer.
Normally as a hardware platform gets more software and design improvements over time, my interest goes up. In cases where that means a sizable investment, that purchase feels easier and easier to justify.
I've felt less and less able to justify the investment in VR, over the past year.
I've felt less and less able to justify the investment in VR, over the past year.
dragonyeuw
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I don't think it will ever become a mass market thing for gaming. The closest it will get to 'mass market' are people buying a sub $100 smartphone attachment to fuck around with, like they do now. Developers are waiting for the install base to grow, the (prospective) install base is waiting for games in order to invest in the hardware on top of the base hardware( PC with the horsepower, PS4, etc). If Sony doesn't show something substantial this E3, I think that's pretty telling of the general direction at least on the console side, at least in terms of the kinds of experiences you'll mostly get( bite sized games instead of large-scale AAA development).
I think ultimately it will live on through PC if only through mostly indie development or VR add-on modes/games designed to play both in VR and non-VR( ala RE7).
Nothing will kill VR.
At worst the current iteration will phase out, but VR as a concept is so integral to the concept of entertainment and storytelling, that is actually, undoubtedly, the ending point of everything videogames and similar entertainment are trying to do, especially escapism based ones.
That said, as a big believer in VR, I'm actually disappointed by the slowness at which prices have gone down and technology improvements of the hardware.
Breakfast at Noon
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Even if my only game was Resident Evil 7, I would not regret my purchase.
They should stop making niche motion control games. It will be games like resident evil that grows vr, not the half hour experiences that rely on motion control gimmick.
VR first adopters are hardcore gamers. Why are most of the games on the platform clearly casual games? Never made sense to me.
VR first adopters are hardcore gamers. Why are most of the games on the platform clearly casual games? Never made sense to me.
ozz ex machina
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No it's not.
I have owned a rift. I can safely say playing videogames in VR will never be the endpoint for me. I may just be a disgusting luddite. But I really don't enjoy gaming in VR. I like to relax, sit back and watch a screen from a distance. For a big open world game, I still don't think I'd like to play in VR. I don't want the game world to consume me. Personally I don't think that's actually a very healthy experience for extended periods of time (in terms of mental health, not the fact the screen is close to your eyes)
GlamFM
Banned
I used to think that.
I´m not entirely convinced anymore that this is actually true.
VR has far too many barriers to entry to be the end point of interactive entertainment.
Interfectum
Member
This seems like an 80s vision of where video games were going... I'm not so sure this is going to happen anymore. With the way we are hooked on the internet, social media and our phones, I don't think there is a big enough audience that is interested in 100% out of body escapism anymore. It will always be a niche product, in our lifetimes anyway.
Noisepurge
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need dat Resident Evil 8 in VR!
Oachkatzlschwoaf
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Has anyone considered that the vast majority maybe simply doesn't like VR? In most threads about the topic everyone seems to assume that VR is THE thing and people only need to see it to be convinced. Now they are closing down their demo stations. To me this sounds as if people just don't like VR, outside of a few. Similar to "3D".
shark sandwich
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As I have said before, I DON'T think technology, lack of killer apps, or even cost are what's preventing VR from going mainstream. I think it's:
- the inconvenience of strapping a display to your face and losing vision of your surroundings
- motion sickness (and this is a REAL problem, I never got sick from roller coasters/planes/etc but some VR games made me horribly sick after 5-10 minutes)
- controlling a game by moving your head/neck/body around and pantomiming the actions is just plain inferior to controlling it with small twitches of your fingers
I honestly think VR is the next Kinect or 3D TV. It's one of those things people only THINK they want because it's a concept that is ingrained in our minds as "The Future".
- the inconvenience of strapping a display to your face and losing vision of your surroundings
- motion sickness (and this is a REAL problem, I never got sick from roller coasters/planes/etc but some VR games made me horribly sick after 5-10 minutes)
- controlling a game by moving your head/neck/body around and pantomiming the actions is just plain inferior to controlling it with small twitches of your fingers
I honestly think VR is the next Kinect or 3D TV. It's one of those things people only THINK they want because it's a concept that is ingrained in our minds as "The Future".
thomasmahler
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This isn't very surprising.
VR needs to become a mass-market device. Even PSVR at 400 bucks is still too expensive. We need hassle-free devices for at most 299$ for this thing to take off.
And devs right now would be crazy to make VR-exclusive games for a market that has such a tiny install-base.
So I'd say it'll just take a few years for VR to truly become a mass-market thing, but I believe as strongly in VR as I did when I first tried it. It's definitely going to be a huge thing, the question is just when it truly and fully enters the mass market.
VR needs to become a mass-market device. Even PSVR at 400 bucks is still too expensive. We need hassle-free devices for at most 299$ for this thing to take off.
And devs right now would be crazy to make VR-exclusive games for a market that has such a tiny install-base.
So I'd say it'll just take a few years for VR to truly become a mass-market thing, but I believe as strongly in VR as I did when I first tried it. It's definitely going to be a huge thing, the question is just when it truly and fully enters the mass market.
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