Microsoft has fired their entire AR and VR programs
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not surprising in the least. VR is a gimmick that is great for hobbyists and coomers, but was never going to see wide adoption. AR is just a meme straight out.
I think VR and AR are still good, it's just the people designing stuff for them are terrible.
It pains me that this amazing tech is in the hands of the worst people. Looking through the oculus tv app and seeing the majority of content is just propaganda about feminism and black empowerment is so disappointing.
This is a giant corporation trying to mimic a good idea that goes directly against what they do. They add on the idea based on how they think it works.
As someone who used VR quite a bit in the past and got a little annoyed with the headsets, I think you'd see a lot more adoption among casuals when we get to simple lightweight VR "glasses", instead of goggles. It's kind of a hot take among designers because most people claim you need to completely close off the periphery to achieve immersion. I don't think that's necessary for many use cases, and our eyes have an amazing ability to ignore the periphery when we're focused on something. The more hardcore users would buy full vision headsets.
Still, it will ALWAYS be a niche peripheral like HDR monitors and joysticks. That's its success state.
At the very least they should look like steampunk goggles. With the pancake designs coming out that looks possible.
What I realized is that most of the time I didn't want to be that level of immersed in my game. It's requiring too much... of my body, of my attention, and a lot of times of my space. I remember trying to get Skyrim going as a seated game and smashing the controller into my couch trying swing down off my horse, lol.
I'd play a lot more if the goggles were light and wireless, and it didn't take a full-on basically desktop gaming rig to power a normal game. But I still don't think I'd spend most of my gaming time attached.
VR will be big eventually, just not yet. Too many tech companies like Facebook over-invested in VR trying to make it "the next big thing" when the technology and costs simply are not there yet. In 10-20 years, sure. People try to push things too early, waste money, and fail.
it will never ever succeed on the scale it's proponents think. I had VR, quickly got bored of it
You could have said the same thing about the internet in the 90s. Just wait until better games and applications come out for it. Eventually it has greater growth potential than monitor + keyboard and mouse or console. But the hardware needs to get cheaper and the games/applications need to get a lot better. Right now I have no interest in it because it probably can't do anything better than a PC except maybe porn.
Until VR is as small and simple as a pair of glasses it won’t take off like how people envision.
At the end of the day people don’t want to strap a brick to their face.
This is how all tech starts out. Early adopters are always the hobbyists.
indeed, but how much of that tech makes it into the consumer level? The closest VR has gotten is being a toy for rich parents to give their kids, who can't share it easily with their friends. by and large VR does not have the adoption that other tech like personal computers and video game consoles had. barring some kind of major revolution, it's never going to.
Yeah but even the most expensive VR kits are awkward AF right now. When a VR headset costs the same as a nintendo controller and weighs not much more than an ordinary pair of glasses, if people still don't want to use it I'll say it's dead as entertainment. But I think making that determination while the technology still sucks is premature. I guess it would be kind of like saying cell phones would never take off back when they were the size of a suitcase.
that would be a revolution. I don't see it happening, but if it does I would agree that VR would probably become a lot more popular.
VR isn't taking off like people imagined because:
It's expensive
It's complicated
It's uncomfortable
There aren't any good games for it
People don't want to look like dorks
1,2, and 3 is just a matter of time.
4 is easily explainable as a consequence of the same primitiveness as 1-3.
5 is a longer term problem, but people who used to have computers in their watches were considered dorky not that long ago. Now, you wouldn't think much about it.
I still think smartwatches are for dweebs. Up there with people who willingly put wiretaps in their home
and almost a quarter of people that use it get motion sickness