I'm hardly motivated to put on my Vive these days. It's cumbersome, heavy, awkward, both hardware & software. Finally got done turning everything on & slipping on controllers, VR & audio headsets? Oops, SteamVR is acting up, now I have to take everything off to troubleshoot
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Exactly, I'm in the same boat. I had visitors one day and they saw the Lighthouse emitters in my living room. They had no idea it was for VR and gave me strange looks. The thing is just too complex, too bulky, too unreliable, too many wires, driver issues, and it looks silly.
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Few want to basically wear a ski mask on their faces for fun. It's anti-collaborative, anti-social, and looks and feels dumb and isolating. VR development, especially multiplayer, is painful at best. AR I can see a bright future for, because I already wear glasses. VR - no.
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The tech industry is very fashion driven. VR was the prevailing fashion from '15-'17 or so. The insiders have already cashed in and now the hype and money trains are running out of steam.
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right but its actually kind of fun. what about that?
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I'm just calling things as I see them. It's not making money.
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I'll have to read this, but Michael Abrash gave a still very optimistic view of VR just a few weeks ago.
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
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What's going to happen here is that the innermost players (the Abrashes, Binstocks, etc.) are going to quietly move on to greener corporate or startup pastures once it makes sense from a stock/financial perspective. The VR hypewagon and money train is probably over. AR has legs.
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good. then I can keep my normal maps.
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It’s not dying for the first time and pretty much for the same reasons again, but what fun would learning from history be. Who wants to bet on another inflated comeback sometime in the future?

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I was thinking the same thing. In 10-20 years we'll probably see another round of this, with another group of devs hopping on the VR hype/money train.
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On the other hand maybe (one of the) next time(s) we get it right enough when people don’t actually wanna go out anymore cause ouch climate change. Otherwise agree that AR makes much more sense really. But then I also detest 3D glasses for screens. I might not be target group.
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A lie and a half. This is like convincing me that kids don't want to be Harry Potter. Like honestly, has nobody read Ready Player One?
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"The media (yes, me included, at least early on) has gone through several cycles" The cycle is overhype and then exagerated backlash, which you're still very much a part of, Josh.
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The dream's not dying...it's just not living up to the same bullshit hype cycle that seems to infect everything these days for every project and game.
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It is a lame gimmick that is being pushed as a way to get more non-gamers to start playing games.
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The problem is that I want to play games with it, not mini games that are fun for 5 minutes.
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