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Microsoft has fired their entire AR and VR programs (archive.ph)
posted 2 years ago by AlfredicEnglishRules 2 years ago by AlfredicEnglishRules +45 / -0
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– AlfredicEnglishRules [S] 29 points 2 years ago +29 / -0

I think VR and AR are still good, it's just the people designing stuff for them are terrible.

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– DT990P 26 points 2 years ago +26 / -0

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.

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– AlfredicEnglishRules [S] 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

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.

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– Assassin47 10 points 2 years ago +10 / -0

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.

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– AlfredicEnglishRules [S] 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

At the very least they should look like steampunk goggles. With the pancake designs coming out that looks possible.

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– when_we_win_remember 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

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.

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– dekachin 4 points 2 years ago +5 / -1

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.

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– FatalConceit 4 points 2 years ago +5 / -1

it will never ever succeed on the scale it's proponents think. I had VR, quickly got bored of it

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– dekachin 1 point 2 years ago +2 / -1

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.

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– FatalConceit 1 point 2 years ago +2 / -1

It's not about having a killer app. It's the fact you shut off the outside, people just don't care for it. Sure I'll still pop in occasionally - but it will never (for example) take over from my tv and controller for FIFA

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– Frux7 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

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.

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