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A Year Since Its Release, Sony Seems to Have Abandoned PlayStation VR2 (www.ign.com)

submitted 8 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

One of the biggest problems is there really isn't a lot of cross over between VR and traditional gaming. Games that are built for screens rarely work well in VR and vice-versa. So to properly support VR gaming, you need to be investing in creating games that have a substantially limited market. Even then the tech has a "not quite there yet" feel to it which really discourages adoption, considering the substantial cost for a quality setup.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

I think the main problem with VR is that it is a solution looking for a problem. Immersion can be experienced without literally looking through the eyes of the character and literally waving your arms around and literally walking. Honestly, VR reminds me a bit of the early UIs that tried to emulate real world desks and paper based tooling when we have much more freedom to interact with our data on a computing device.

Not to mention all the problems VR poses to traditional story-telling methods when you can not rely on the user looking at the thing you want them to focus on at that moment, it basically ruins all the best ways to surprise, tantalize or otherwise emotionally impress the user/player.