I got a VR set this year. The ecosystem is a weird wasteland of projects where the funding suddenly dried up, and there's a thin veneer of cryptocurrency flavored shit over everything.

I think the tech is good enough. It's just a business problem, where all the businesses either want to be the new app store controlling it, or the people who make premium headsets at a markup. But what they actually need is to force people to give a damn, which either means exclusive games (Nintendo is the only company still in the exclusive games on their own hardware business, and they didn't do it), or VR sets so cheap that random developers think they can successfully sell VR games (nobody wants to be the IBM to someone else's Microsoft).

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Aren't there like 2 games for VR that are actually commonly played (VRChat, beatsaber, and maybe half life alyx)?

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There are tons of really good games It just depends how you can manage playing in VR. The sessions are also quite short

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty much.

Beatsaber is very good though.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

idk how commonly played it is but Rumble is the coolest VR shit i've ever seen

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

(Nintendo is the only company still in the exclusive games on their own hardware business, and they didn't do it)

They did, it was called Labo. Labo didn’t sell very well. And that’s despite having exclusive games and being cheap.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

Labo was fun for 15 minutes until I got a headache and realized it wasn't better than 2d

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the furries (who are good and wholesome and against whom I will not hear a word) are still pretty into VR

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

And the Toki Pona community as well is super into VR. And there’s some hearty overlap between those two communities as I understand it as well (which, I’m not sure where the connection happened, but anyway).

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

VR never got a game mainstream enough for the madden and cod crowd or anything compelling enough for the gun-pointed-at-printer crowd so the only people who really got into it are tech fad types, and it's a loop of there not being software so there aren't customers so nobody with a marketing budget funds software.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I still use my Valve Index about once or twice a week, right now my top game on it is Iron Rebellion which is like if DCS had a Gundam module.

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking sold

[–] kotak_doost@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's pretty popular in sim racing still

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

And flight sims. Seems cool, but I'm too broke for it lol

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

Happens every decade or so

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's coming still. There's going to be a giant market for it imo.

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe 3D movies can make a comeback