Does VR add anything to vidya or is it just a gimmick?

Even after 10+ years the technology still isn't there yet.

>>715055229 (OP)
Depends on the game, desu. If you're playing Skyrim VR with a dozen mods running and full-body tracking, it's the closest you'll get to living in a fantasy world without actually selling your soul to Todd. But if you're just strapping on a headset to play Beat Saber for the 500th time, it's basically just a sweaty gimmick with extra neck strain. VR has potential, it just needs devs who do more than port shovelware onto it.

It's pretty cool, but it's too uncomfortable. Sometimes I want to play it, but I just don't want the possible headache it brings and I don't like the feeling on my face. So I end up doing something else. My headset is covered in dust.

>>715055229 (OP)
All good VR games are short tech demos.
All big VR games are ports, things like NMS and Skyrim that don't really make good use of VR.

No games -> no users -> nobody making games

>>715055229 (OP)
not with the headset on the image

>>715055276
>10
VR's been teased since the 80s
It unironically crossed a threshold of usability in the early 2010s that it was nowhere near even 5-10 years prior
Retards say "it came back too earlier, it's still not ready, it died out again"
Utter powerfaggots don't remember what VR was like in the 2000s. I got to try out some giant dumbo-jumbo VR headset in 2007. It was fucking DIRE. Something like 720p or 1080p resolution, but it cost the university somewhere on the order of $80,000 just to play ultra shitty N64-level flight sims. VR came bursting back the moment it was capable of coming back. Maybe Luckey accelerated it, but not by any more than 2 or 3 years. If not for the Rift devkit, I assure you somebody would have put together some commercial VR headset by 2015 and the hype train would've been there.

You can blame Zuckerberg being a technoretard for a lot of the problems. Oculus should have been bought out by Snoy or Microsoft. Cuckerberg bought into the hype and thought he could make VR into a new social media platform, but we're decades away from that shit.
Vr could be way bigger than it is, but I don't think it'll ever be as big as mobile or PC games until the day you can play it with your brain.

>>715056157
>Oculus should have been bought out by Snoy or Microsoft
The project would have been canned. Zuck is the only one willing to sink R&D on this and it'll finally bring back money when they shell out those ray ban glasses with AI companions.
Honestly if reality labs tomorrow decides to drop traditional vr headsets then we're doomed. There's gonna be no supply of cheap headset and all that's gonna be left are overpriced basestation trash or sim racing niche headsets.

>>715055229 (OP)
Just 1 more headset bro.
Bro
Please bro
All we need is a single more headset
Bro just 1 more then we are big mainstream

>>715055229 (OP)
VR has only added more mentally ill and autistic people into this world

>>715055229 (OP)
Yes it does. NEXT BAIT

yes it's insane what vr offers. flying a fighter jet or racing an f1 car becomes a billion times more enjoyable in vr. it's not even comparable to using a normal screen setup. more importantly, kerbal space program in vr is amazing. i truly feel like i just got hit with 800Gs and shattered my spine, but at least i'll get to Mun...

Shootans are fantastic with VR.
That's pretty much the only use case.

>>715055229 (OP)
it adds immersion by putting you inside the game. apparently a lot of people have bad motion sickness so that's probably among the main reasons why it's not more popular

It's stuck in a perpetual cycle of
>no games -> no buyers -> no games -> no buyers

>>715061767
The Meta Quest 3 alone has sold more than the following video game systems

Nintendo 64
Xbox
Gamecube
PS Vita
Wii U
Xbox Series S and X combined

Once you play Half-Life Alyx everything else is shit in comparison.

Only thing VR is good for is porn
It's really hard to go back to regular afterward
especially when you can suck nice futa cock in VR

>>715062674
HL2 VR mod is better than Alyx

>>715055229 (OP)
One thing I like is seeing some older games that get VR support, cool to re-experience them in VR.

Would be cool to see someone make VR mods for older console games once they're ported to PC (like Perfect Dark 64). Maybe as AI gets better that stuff will be easier to do.

>>715055229 (OP)
All vidya are gimmicks.

>>715062712
Disagree on that, Alyx was pretty good, really good combat and intractability with objects. Felt great despite some of the moronically designed puzzles.

well with UEVR you can play stuff like this in vr
https://youtu.be/7ONTVSn3WLE?si=35HMagY5scY8vd2R
so a game don't has to be developed specifically for vr in order to enjoy it in vr. layers of fear (2023) in vr was amazing and it wasn't even made for vr

>>715055229 (OP)
Both.

>>715061767
how would (You) fix that cycle anon