Current Events > Remember when I said VR is a pipe dream money sink that will never take off?

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And then CE just called me a troll and said I had no idea what I was talking about

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/28/16215038/sony-playstation-vr-camera-move-bundle-price-drop-september

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/21/16176862/htc-vive-vr-headset-price-cut

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/07/oculus-cuts-rift-price-for-second-time-this-year-now-399-with-touch/

Ready to eat your words yet, or are you all just going to continue to play biased contrarian and double down because it's me saying all this?
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I'll never spend money on this VR shit.
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This is actually arguing against your point.
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And what happens when you're right? Do you get a trophy?
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Well it is a shitty gimmick.
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Lonestar2000 posted...

This is actually arguing against your point.

this.

are you high on anger again

I never said that.
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VR will never take off because... it's getting price cuts?

Um, what?

EverHeardOfIt posted...

VR will never take off because... it's getting price cuts?

Um, what?

This. I wasn't going to bite at 800. But I'm thinking about it at 600 for vive.
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TC is so cute when he thinks he's right
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I remember when I said it isn't anywhere close to being more than a gimmick on the level of Motion Control right now and Clear threw a big tantrum that I had no clue what I was talking about.

So yeah, I'd believe the same shit happened for you.

That being said, the reason it isn't going to take off is because the shit is still being used for gimmicks. If you had more experiences on the level of Elite: Dangerous with full VR it'd see a bigger jump in popularity and casual people willing to put in the investment.
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i tried VR personally using the rift and it's definitely a gimmick. It's initially impressive because of the head and position tracking but the novelty wears off quick. The technology is too primitive. The picture resolution is too low, which makes the visuals awfully blurry. The biggest flaw is the limited movement. You're bounded to the range between the wires and PC - I felt like I was better off sitting and waggling the controllers as if I was playing the wii. If given the choice between a good monitor and keyboard vs a VR setup, I'd chose the former easily
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EverHeardOfIt posted...

VR will never take off because... it's getting price cuts?

products get price cuts because they aren't selling. We can deduce that VR has become stagnant again and will be forgotten like back in the early 90s
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Lonestar2000 posted...

This is actually arguing against your point.

Not at all, they're cutting the price because enough people aren't buying units at their original retail price

Meaning It's foundering and they're trying to move units even if it means significanly less profit per unit sold

CapnMuffin posted...

And what happens when you're right? Do you get a trophy?

Not at all, I just get to revel in the faces of all the contrarians who will disagree with everything I say even though it's clearly right just because I was the one who said it


FightingGames posted...

i tried VR personally using the rift and it's definitely a gimmick. It's initially impressive because of the head and position tracking but the novelty wears off quick. The technology is too primitive. The picture resolution is too low, which makes the visuals awfully blurry. The biggest flaw is the limited movement. You're bounded to the range between the wires and PC - I felt like I was better off sitting and waggling the controllers as if I was playing the wii. If given the choice between a good monitor and keyboard vs a VR setup, I'd chose the former easily

I was right though, It's just another 3D and motion controls. Hell they dug of the corpse of motion controls and tethered it to that shit, that only cements my point


D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

That being said, the reason it isn't going to take off is because the s*** is still being used for gimmicks

That's all it will ever be used for as no real non first person game can work in the format. You have publishers like Zenimax dumping a few of their IPs onto VR and they might be very successful but how many devs have games that can just freely fit into a VR format without major expensive tweaking like Zenimax? Not many
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Shit guys they don't even sell 720p TVs anymore I guess HD was a fad
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ChromaticAngel posted...

Shit guys they don't even sell 720p TVs anymore I guess HD was a fad

Is this bait? 720p was a natural step up from what came before. Things like VR, 3D, and motion controls have no standing as they're only gimmicks to them and will only die out as time goes on
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I personally don't have interest in this gen of VR, and likely won't have interest in the next gen. But I'm glad it's being worked on.
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I was speaking with John Cormac about VR tech two weeks ago. There's a ton of reasons why it's still too early to judge the failure or success of VR. It's so new, no one has even figured out how to fully utilize it. Cinema has a language that's been developed for over 100 years, consider we have only been developing 360/VR content for a few years at most.

Also, these price cuts are to get the technology in the hands of the consumer. The more people that have these the more likely you'll experience how cool it is to be doing this and you'll want one for yourself. John said he had hoped 4K phones was going to become a trend so that he wouldn't need to package the oculus with its own display (which would raise price substantially) and John said he was disappointed when the phone industry didn't take the 4K display route.
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my dream scenario is for technology to reach a point where with the vive setup, i can stand in the room of a porn scene and freely observe as if people were fucking next to me

xd
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AsucaHayashi posted...

my dream scenario is for technology to reach a point where with the vive setup, i can stand in the room of a porn scene and freely observe as if people were fucking next to me

xd

like the scene in Minority Report
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Nobody cares whether you're right or wrong, they just want you to shut up.
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I still want nothing to do with it. Make it 100 and actually usable in a small space and I might consider it.
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This is a bad topic.
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No accessory should cost more than they system. lol
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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Nobody cares whether you're right or wrong, they just want you to shut up.

Not at all, many people here have admitted they'll defend things that go against their own best interest just because I was the one that said them

TheBiggerWiggle posted...

This is a bad topic.

Buyers remorse kicking in?
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