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Why did VR gaming fail?

Good question

People are obsessed with making barebones tech demos

>>723416919 (OP)
because you keep posting the same thread every day

>>723416919 (OP)
Devs refuse to give gamers what they want this gen. They're to worried about retaining the identity of their tech demo...

>>723416919 (OP)
Because VR didn't just stagnate, it took a step back. 10 years ago every $600 headset you could buy was OLED and had perfect blacks while modern trash peddles horrible LCDs to your that look horrible in dark scenes if you aren't willing to spend $2k.
Besides that, nothing changed. The controllers are cheap and none of the meme tech that people hyped up 10 years ago ever became adopted.

>>723416919 (OP)
>every game is either the exact same formulaic sandbox, job simulator, or FPS game, or a lame port/VR mode of a popular game
>quite pricy with somewhat steep requirements
>despite all of this, consumer VR tech advances at a snail's pace, only being somewhat better than it was a decade ago
There's your reasons.

>>723416919 (OP)
new apple vision will support PC vrchat

>>723416919 (OP)
The last high-profile VR game to release was Alien Rogue Incursion last December, and I didn’t realize until well after the fact that Zoe fucking Quinn was the narrative lead.

This thing is the natural home for light gun/on-rails shooters, but nobody’s taking advantage of that, instead obsessed with making a bunch of awkward FPS games that never really feel good to play.

There should be House of the Dead, Time Crisis, Virtua Cop, RE Umbrella/Darkside Chronicles, and shit like that on there, and they could probably be made on a shoestring budget.

I would also drop kick my mother for some form of Burnout and/or Twisted Metal in VR that could be played with a steering wheel.

Still, PSVR2 was worth it for RE Village, RE4, and Switchback alone.

>>723417164
this

>>723416919 (OP)
There's no full games aside Alix. Rest feels like tech demos.
Most of those requires full movement. A Mech game where you play in the chair can work so fine.

>>723417709
Last good VR game I played was a lightgun game in Vegas.
Something about zombies destroying the city and rolling down the strip shooting at them.
It's a bit baffling that there aren't more on rails shooters like that for VR.

>>723417524
Oh, also
Everyone has realized that VR is really just a peripheral that functions in an extremely small ecosystem, like HOTAS or fight sticks. But unlike other peripherals, VR setups are MANDATORY (sometimes specific ones too) for their games, and most of their games aren't very good, either.

You probably won't see any further adoption of VR until the tech becomes more affordable and/or more immersive.

>>723416919 (OP)
Would use mine more if any games were like this

>>723416919 (OP)
thats a man

>>723416919 (OP)
VRchat is the only thing keeping the vr market afloat

>>723418574
>the VR industry's continued survival is thanks to the load-bearing furry ERP chatroom
It really do be like that

>>723416919 (OP)
It hasn't really failed since consumer VR is here to stay, it's just that most of the companies developing it are super retarded and are actively hurting the industry.
Meta is sponging up funding, interest and manpower while actively pissing away most of its effort.
SteamVR is basically a hobby project.
PSVR has no drive or vision and is content to deliver basically nothing and die twice over even while it was in a good position to incentivize the creation of more official VR mods to their games beyond just the RE games.
Microsoft just recently killed its own VR service and bricked its headsets on new Windows versions.
The vast majority of the other headsets are just niche or chinkshit.
>>723418263
UEVR at least shows that a lot of modern games could easily be made VR compatible without being dedicated VR games.
>>723418767
Suspiciously wealthy furries are at the heart of everything from VR to the pyramids.

>>723416919 (OP)
Gamedevs cannot even optimize their releases and AAA companies are bloated out the ass paying DEI hires and friends. Its simply too hard for them to open a level editor for VR or to design a decent game for it. Only Valve can pull it off.

>>723419616
>simply too hard for them to open a level editor for VR
>UEVR dev could add VR without access to any editor or source code for each game

>>723416919 (OP)
This is a man btw

>>723418512
>>723419936
Proof?

VR is the future

>>723417709
The newest house of dead works in uevr

>>723420090
The balls

>>723416919 (OP)
gaming?

>>723416919 (OP)
Zuckerberg bisecting the market by bringing walled gardens into what is already an incredibly niche market. Then, that faggot didn't even commit to his own bullshit and shuttered several of the studios he bought.

>>723418263
All the best VR games today are VR mods. That just tells you how badly devs this gen fumbled the bag and continue to do so

>>723420090
>Proof?
it's a video made by a male developer to advertise his facial animation plugin for that particular anime model
so it is pretty likely that's him

>>723416919 (OP)
because it's shit

>>723418263
>You probably won't see any further adoption of VR until the tech becomes more affordable and/or more immersive.
nope, even then you wont see widespread adoption, because that isn't the issue
the issue is the "games" are shit and EVERYTHING, from the required shitty heavy bulky peripherals and the nigger tier "games" to all the space you have to sequester for it, are massively fucking overpriced (and for 0 value at that)

>>723420649
the obesity waddle at the start always gets me

>>723421982
dumb pickle hater

>>723416919 (OP)
>too early in 2012, people dismiss vr saying it's not ready yet
>starting to get decent in 2015, but google releases cardboard and people dismiss vr saying it's not ready yet
>starting to get actually good by 2018, but crypto boom makes vr too expensive (and now samsung pushes their phone-based headset in every store and makes everyone dismiss vr again)
>starting to get really good in 2020, but covid made everyone broke
>really fucking good in 2023, but ai jacked the prices further and seemingly forever
>minor blunders along the way, like faceberg buying oculus, sony not making psvr2 backwards compatible, everyone trying to make their own vr ecosystem and bite a piece of an already tiny market, not letting it develop
>loud and requires space, so many people can't afford it even if they can afford the hardware
>mostly associated with vrchat creeps
It's all so tiresome...

>>723420649
>know there is some fat faggot on the other end
Yeah man. Yeah.

>>723422343
this is always a huge turn off for me

>>723422114
Damn you're probably right, but I was impressed by what looks like 10/10 mocap acting. That's exactly how a chunky midget kemono succubus should move.

>>723416919 (OP)
If an AI could emote like this and talk to me I would be completely one shot and easily enslaved by it.
Get the fuck on it, judeosatanic technocrats.

>>723416919 (OP)
Immersion from the wider view of the headset is ultimately a minor gain, and the head tracking and hand tracking has only been used for Wii tier gameplay. There is no company in the world that would ever commit the resources necessary to create the truly impressive VR gameplay that's been imagined in other media.

>>723416919 (OP)
it sucks
and because that's a dude

>>723417626
>pcvr on an iOS app
The apple store's enforcement of nsfw restrictions would kill the game stone dead and probably take the VR hardware industry down with it. But VRChat's investors are retarded and can't see past a single quarter.

>>723423394
aren't most of the 3D vtranny stuff just instances of VRChat with their own motion capture? It'd crash 2 industries with no survivors

>>723423394
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/steam-link/id1246969117

>>723424050
>"isXROSCompatible\":true

>>723416919 (OP)
Every time I ask if VR is worth playing VRfags reveal they play skyrim, instantly dispelling any desire I have to try it.

>>723424391
I only play racing games, including old shit like RBR. But that's more than enough to be worth it.

>>723422885
AI will make anime real

>A: We need to market this product that is essentially perfect for specific areas of work instead towards gaming.
>B:Why?
>A: Mass-adoption will lead to investors which leads to profit!
>B: How's mass-imigration treating you?
>A: [shits self]

>>723416919 (OP)
That's a man

>>723416919 (OP)
everyone knows a high budget anime girlfriend sim would sell VR by itself but the west is too afraid. china will eventually deliver I give them another year or 2