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You just described everything wrong with cars when they first came out. Large, uncomfortable, slow, needed expensive infrastructure/hardware. And look at cars now. Size hasn't improved, but everything else has (well, the infrastructure is in place now), and you can't get away from them.
Im saving up for a Steam Frame. Even if it just operates as a screen for my Steam Deck, that's enough for me. Add in some freestanding VR, and maybe a new computer that can handle VR in the future, and I'm as happy as can be.
I'm not saying your opinion is wrong, just not universal, and we are still very early on in the VR/AR market.
Cars didn’t give people migraines or require custom lenses to use.
They also get you from point A to point B and without them you had no other choices beyond a horse, bicycle or paying someone else to produce something.
VR gives you a headset you have to wear that is uncomfortable and the end result is that you see the game you’re playing on the screen in front of you.
We already have screens in front of us that we play games on.
This is more like a motorcycle in America. Nobody uses them really, so you have to really commit to it to get use out of it. There’s loads of downsides and the upsides is that it can be fun from time to time. They can technically take you from point a to point b, but odds are you’re gonna want something with walls and a roof when weather sucks or when you need to do something serious like haul some supplies for a home project. Just like how certain things are just better with a mouse and keyboard or with a controller.
Your car analogy fits computers or smartphones better. We already have those, so an accessory computing thing is a frivolous add on for most anything you’d want to do with it, but it can be fun if it works for you. Sure, in Asian countries bikes are cheaper and more common so everything is more suitable to them, but I suspect they will never catch on here to the same degree…. Like VR.
Early cars were worse than trains and horses. It took a lot of effort to make them useful, and then to make them ubiquitous.
Cars absolutely require special lenses for some people to operate and exhaust fumes will give you headaches and worse
Ah yes, all those glasses people made for each and every car they ever drove! That was so inconvenient!
And the deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning just by driving early cars! OH MY GOD SO MANY DEAD. BILLIONS! more than have ever died before!
The way you talk about VR is the way Trump talks about windfarms.
Windfarms produce clean energy with minimal environmental impact and cost.
VR headsets... don't quite have the same kind of impact. You can easily spend $2000-$3000 and find that your purchase is not at all what you envisioned.
Windmills are exactly what they look like, cheap energy machines that will lower our total cost of energy and reliance on burning substances that people are literally killing each other over, including the current war partially to raise prices for the venezuelan spoils to make investment sense.
Way to miss the point.
I spent $1000 on a VR headset, and it wasn't what I envisioned. It was way better. Having played in VR, I don't even bother with flatscreen games anymore. It's not just putting the screen closer to your eyes. It's an entirely different paradigm. And it's fucking kickass.
Everyone I've seen whining about how VR isn't that great and isn't going to catch on and various problems that they imagine etc is acting like a boomer complaining about cellphones. Or Texans trying to say electric cars are worse than ICE cars
Congrats, i'm glad you like it and doesn't give you the issues it gave me.
The headset I bought was the original HTC Vive, which was $800 at the time which adjusted for inflation would probably be close to $1500 today. At the time had a 1080ti which was the fastest gpu. I spared no expense, did drill in wall mounting and the whole nine yards, and devoted an entire room to it. Total waste of time, but glad I tried it to realize just how bad it was for me.
It might surprise you to learn, but we were getting from point A to B for a long time, and there are people even today who get headaches from cars, and not even from the noise, which was much worse with early cars. Do you think sitting near an engine with almost nothing between it and you was a relaxing experience, or risking death just starting it was a big sell?