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Buddy of mine got a Oculus/Meta/whatever VR headset for his son a year ago as a Christmas gift and the kid was bored with it like a month later. Like he fucking begged for the thing in the months leading up, then once he got it he no longer cared. I tried it out once or twice; had a little fun with some restaurant simulator game, once I realized I could throw food at the walls and knock over tables. I honestly had more fun with the "sandbox" aspect of these games than playing them the way they were intended. I'd never buy one for myself though.
I think he paid like $300 for his. Even that's steep and i can't imagine paying ten times as much for what is probably the same thing.
I can see that. VR still doesn't have a killer app, and because of the small size of the userbase and complexity of developing for it it may never have one. I still put mine on about once a week to play flight sims tho.
Am I the only one one that thinks it just didn't look good? All these youtubers were like "it feels like I'm really there," I put the oculus on my face and just felt like I was staring at a phone screen right up to my face
Hate playing flight sims without VR now. Hat switches are so 1990
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I do have a TrackIR and yeah it's pretty good, a great stopgap and preferable if youre playing for a long time. But damn VR just makes it so easy
The thing is with VR currently, you really need to pay a small fourtune to be able to see more than 10 pixels a screen that looks like it's covered in vaselene. Then you need the computing power to render all that. And even if you get all that right and have a retina quality display and lens combo in the thing and hook it up to a supercomputer, there's still motion sickness. And then there's sound. Headphones are pretty crap for soundstage, even open backed ones.
The best implementation of VR I've ever seen was those strip mall popups that would build a VR experience out of foam and boards and then create a matching digital set piece, so you could wear a headset and actually walk around a dungeon or spaceship or whatever.
I still use mine semi regularly and enjoy it. But I am weird.