• djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    I mean, I think it’s fine as a gimmick for wealthy gamers, and it’s been at that level for awhile.

    As the future of gaming though? yeah, never gonna happen. M+KB is the best controlling scheme for tons of the genres I play, and controllers are great for a bunch of others. There’s actually not that many genres that are improved by full body motion tracking, they’re pretty much all first-person games, and they often turn a relaxing gaming session into a workout. It’s not that the technology isn’t there, it’s that the concept it’s fundamentally flawed.

    • AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Valve, after billions of dollars of market research: “we release this cool headset”

      Average single braincelled organism: VR dead lol

  • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
    261·
    21 hours ago

    I mean, VR has happened, and been happening for like a decade… is what’s not happening that it hasn’t replaecd every system and been the only or even primary method of gaming… no. Is it mark zuckerbergs “metaverse” where we start working from home, by wanting to go into a VR virtual workspace or hold our productivity meetings in VR… no obviously not.

    Is it a viable option of gaming, along with mobile phone games, PC games, Console games, and portable console games, yes it has a place there right now.

      • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
        10·
        18 hours ago

        Umm… what the heck are these choice of examples. Mainly we are talking gaming VR devices. we can basically scrap the “metaverse”, apple, microsoft, google glass off the list.

        Virtualboy? we’re talking an attempt to make VR in the days before anything close to a viable technology even existed.

        Realistically the products I’d say are actually, modern VR gaming are more or less oculus, valve index, and maybe the playstation VR thing?

        Really though, not a huge shocker that sales are declining, as a gaming niche, I don’t see them as the kind of thing people are likely to upgrade on the regular. Least not unless/until someone majorly blows away the weight/bulk of them. Say take me, I’m probably a typical user, I bought a quest 2, about 3 years ago… happy with it.

        am I buying a quest 3, nope, bought my son an index as a big christmas gift 2 years ago… is he going to upgrade his, probably not.

    • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      I wish I could, hopefully some day.

      Keratoconus sucks, but theoretically, with a full scan of the eye and appropriate distortion shaders, I think it could be countered. (this doesn’t yet exist AFAIK)

    • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      16 hours ago

      Beat Saber was fun until I tried Synth Riders.

      Then I modded Skyrim VR. All my other VR games have been abandoned forever.

        • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          7 hours ago

          I liked the soundtrack much better overall (some of the packs sucked, but I just don’t play them) and I like the movement and flow better than Beat Saber. I’m ok at Beat Saber but was never quite able to hit the hardest difficulty levels. I was playing the hardest difficulty levels on Synth Riders pretty quickly. I think it turns people off because the easier difficulty levels are quite boring, but it’s very good on higher difficulty settings. They’re both good games, it’s very much just personal preference for me.

  • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    16 hours ago

    When it comes to gaming, I believed VR games are a pointless waste of time, for quite a while. Then I played “Psychonauts: In the Rhombus of Ruin” and had so much fun, it’s amazing! VR definitely has a place, but it’s still quite expensive.

    What I’m really waiting for is an affordable VR headset with a high enough resolution to watch 3D movies comfortably. I have a PSVR1 and I’ve watched TRON: Legacy on it, but the resolution is a bit too shitty to really enjoy it. It’s passable for games, but not for movies. The PSVR2 would be better in theory, but Sony decided in their infinite wisdom to remove 3D BluRay playback on the PS5. -.-

    A VR headset from Valve will most likely be really well supported on Linux. If that means I can finally watch 3D MKV’s, then fuck yes, I’m in. Definitely not paying 1.000€ for it, though.