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My friend let me try out his Quest 2 and I feel like it spoiled my first impression of VR… That is, I was not impressed. Picture quality was abysmal, I definitely expected something more immersive than blurry binoculars experience, and Facebook integration was annoying as fuck.
Not even if they gave me $200
I would use it for like 1 game on the quest store and more portable/wireless VR on PC. Even though my Index, is superior in almost every way, an easy headset to give to a visitor would be nice.
I probably wouldn’t pay $200 for one, but if a friend was getting rid of one for $50-100 I would likely snatch it up.
For me the issue with VR headsets isn’t the price, but the lack of a relevant killer app.
If I were super-into flight sims, I could totally see going VR – makes more sense then the many-monitors setups that fans have done for decades – but most game genres just don’t, IMHO, gain that much. And there hasn’t been a new genre that really blows me away that leverages VR.
I can believe that it might be professionally-useful for architects.
I have a Q3 and I’m also feeling that right now. Most of the games for VR aren’t even really games. They’re “experiences;” Interactive movies where the only interaction is that you can move around the scene. The other biggest type are practically mobile games. Alyx was great. But it’s been long enough that it needs something to surpass it or at least learn from it.
Alyx was great. But it’s been long enough that it needs something to surpass it or at least learn from it.
Hmm. Yeah, that’s a thought too. To put some numbers on that, if I go to Steam and do a search for VR-only games and rank by User Rating, I get:
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Half-Life: Alyx, 2020 release
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VTOL VR, 2017
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COMPOUND, 2022
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UNDERDOGS, 2024
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Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, 2016
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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, 2015
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Half-Life 2: VR Mod, 2022
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The Room VR: A Dark Matter, 2020
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Walkabout Mini Golf VR, 2021
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fpsVR, 2018
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The Last Clockwinder, 2022
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Blade and Sorcery, 2018
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Vertigo 2, 2023
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I Expect You to Die 2: The Spy and the Liar, 2021
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Vermillion - VR Painting, 2021
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Beat Saber, 2019
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The Lab, 2016
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The Thrill of the Fight - VR Boxing, 2019
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OVR Advanced Settings, 2020
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I Expect You To Die, 2017
So of the best-of-the-best out there as of this writing, we have in releases-per-year:
2024: 1 (understandable, year is only about three months in)
2023: 1
2022: 3
2021: 3
2020: 3
2019: 2
2018: 2
2017: 2
2016: 2
2015: 1
I mean, that’s just not really an exponential explosion.
Some of those aren’t even games in any sense of the word. fpsVR and OVR are both just utilities for overlaying things while playing games (and there are free options).
It’s also the most expensive way to play a game, so I do understand the lack of demand compared to the normal gaming space, but there seems to be plenty of people in VR to sustain a good market. So where is it?
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Also, Meta
I am shocked they couldn’t get everyone to wear a headset all the time for personal, work, and any other time for that price. I’m sure for 200 it’ll work.
If it still requires a Facebook account, no way. I walked away from that site 8 years ago and never missed it once.
You can create a dummy account and fill it with bogus data. I even share mine so it doesn’t even belong to a single person.
That’s a bold move, Cotton. The account would get flagged and suspended fairly quick, me thinks.
It’s been almost a year and it still works fine. I even set it up as a dev account to sideload apps and make calls to the wit.ai apps in a few projects.
It depends on how much you share that account, is my point. While internet randos using it would obfuscate any one persons activity, I am not sure how it would work in practice. Maybe you are already sharing it with a dozen other people? I dunno. Security bots tend to clamp that kind of thing unless Meta really gives zero fucks.
Form their other comment, I assume they mean share as in different people using the same headset on the same device
Quest headsets haven’t required a Facebook account in nearly 2 years.
Same shit different name.
It’s literally not, though. You don’t have to have a social media profile. It’s the same as having a Vive account on an HTC headset.
Also a problem.
Why do I need an account at all for my peripheral device?
Imagine not being able to use your kbm or monitor without signing into some service to track you.
You have a Lemmy account. How is this any different?
If I wasn’t locked into the Meta ecosystem I’d buy it.
Wait, I don’t get it. Your comment implies you are locked in to the Meta ecosystem, so wouldn’t this be a fantastic option for you?
I’m not interested because it requires a Meta account, which I’m unwilling to create.
Oops, my bad. I meant “it” or “if I wouldn’t be locked into the Meta ecosystem by buying it”. English is hard.
Ah, that makes way more sense. I’m in the same boat, I’d totally buy this if I didn’t need an account at any Meta service to use it (I’d even pay a bit more for it). But since it does, I just pretend the product doesn’t exist.
And as a native English speaker, I totally agree, English is hard.
Even janky JavaScript makes way more sense than English.
It’s interesting how a single letter can entirely change the meaning of a comment.
That’s the right price range, for VR to properly catch on.
Shame it still owns you rather than vice-versa.
I enjoy mine. It’s fun to get stoned and watch 3d music videos in my hammock.
Do you find them on YouTube? I didn’t even know such a thing existed.
Some of them I found on YouTube, there’s also a pretty cool music visualization “game” on steam.
What’s the name of this game?
Also are there any good music visualisation programs out there?
I use Spotify but there doesn’t seem to be anything really good for visualisation. I know there is a third party website that I can log in through but it never really worked for me
So a lot of the times I just use their remote connect to connect to my computer, that way I can load up videos and everything easier than what the quest.
So it’s actually through steamvr, but here’s the link.
How is the video qualify ? Is it decent ?
I mean, it varies a lot with differing videos. But if you just smoke more weed than you don’t notice.
