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Survey says half of developers consider VR market on decline or stagnation (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 79 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I got a quest 2 a few years back, and it blew my mind. We ended up getting my wife her own so we could play together. Now, my daughter plays a lot of gorilla tag, but other than that, they collect dust.

For me, the biggest thing that prevents me from using it more, is the isolation. You need to find an empty space and remove yourself completely from the world.

On my phone or Xbox, I still know what's going on around me, and I can hop in, play for a bit, and still know what's going on in my house. I can walk away for a moment and get back to what I was doing. In VR, it feels like more of an investment. If I'm not sure that I have plenty of time to disengage from reality, I'm not going to bother putting on the headset.

Also, I'm a sweater, and a soggy, foggy headset is just eww.

[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Bingo. I spent a few hours playing some zombie killer game/demo with the HTC Vive back in like 2017, and while it was actually a lot of fun, it was super disorienting and I definitely knocked some stuff off my shelves by trying to stand in the middle of the room by myself. Someone also walked in without me hearing, and they got a hearty elbow to the face when I swung around to shoot a zombie behind me.

And ugh the sweat is real. After a few minutes the headset fogged up and started slipping off my face, and since that particular headset had porous foam all over it, the sweat soaked in and became gross immediately. That was the last time I used VR.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I know some people hate the idea of VR and want it to go away, others are all in.

I do enjoy it, and I want to be all in, but it's not worth digging it out and charging it up at this point.

[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, I’d be all in if the headsets were small, comfortable, and didn’t necessarily block out the outside world. I think there’s a ton of potential, so I hope development doesn’t completely stall. I wear glasses, and that’s pretty much the maximum amount of hardware I can handle on my face.

[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago

This definitely, vr is a lot of fun, especially with friends (in the game or sharing a headset while we all sit in the same room). But it isn't worth setting it all up (especially if it is pcvr) when I could just play one of the 100s of pancake games I have collected over the years.