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I’ve loved following VR the last few years, watching developers figure out in real-time what makes a good game in a headset, but it really does feel like it’s really on the way out. Moss is one of the big successes of the VR years and it’s now being excised from the medium. People are going to look back on VR in a few years time as a really weird niche of the games industry, like gaming’s very own Galápagos of ideas that never took over the mainstream the way people thought they might in 2016.

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orb360@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Its here to stay for some areas… Flight / racing Sims do extremely well in VR.

Beat saber and a few others have shown staying power too.

But of course it was never going to be the “replace everything and do everything” people think every new hot tech is going to be.

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NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The Steam Frame has a good chance of changing that like the Steam Deck did for handheld computer gaming. Partly because it bridges the gap between PC gaming and handheld gaming because the early Rift and Vive were strictly PC based which excluded people who didn’t have the best gaming rigs and these headsets weren’t cheap either. And then Meta comes along as does Pico but they focus on handheld gaming which is cheaper but doesn’t allow the best graphics or long term games, more mobile style games than anything else.

But the Steam Frame has a chance to make a better bridge between the two since it is a PC at its core and runs Linux and doesn’t need a dedicated PC to play games.

I’m optimistic, anyway.

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- zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m still a bit skeptical, if only because the Steam Frame still won’t solve the issues a lot of people have about limited space to use VR, the associated cost, and just VR’s overall utility.
  
  The current economy sucks, a lot of folks can’t afford more than one or two dedicated gaming devices, and VR is a hard sell when PC and handheld gaming will always get preference. It’s not dead and it won’t be going anywhere, but I don’t see it evolving out of “niche” status anytime soon.
  
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False@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It was pretty predictable that this was gaming’s “3d movies” moment imo.

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Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I mean, I’ve never tried VR but I’m probably going to buy a steam frame whenever they arrive. But part of the reason for that is I live in a small space with no room for a big screen and there’s some non VR games I want to try on a screen bigger than my steam deck.

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Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Gonna slam people with a bit of reality here: I think it could’ve had staying power if people could afford it. And that’s not a statement on hardware companies making it too expensive - it’s a statement on people choosing to fight equality and encourage wealth hoarding.

If your market is the tiny group of wealthy consumers that can afford it, who will buy singleplayer games only, it’s not going to go far. You need. People. Able. To buy it.

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- FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I mean, the quest 2 hit a pretty good price point.
  
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  - Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    The VR headset is only one thing. The gaming PC is another (for games like HL:A) , and that doesn’t touch on the biggest expense: Owning a living space with a mid-sized empty area that can be dedicated to one person’s entertainment. For a lot of people, that’s the biggest one.
    
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    FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yeah, that’s very true. Having a big empty room for VR is challenging.
    
    The quest somewhat skirts around the PC requirement by being all in one, but it’s certainly not going to be running HL:A locally.
    
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