Microsoft has fired their entire AR and VR programs
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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.