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Developers speaking to the Game Developers Collective seem to think the VR games market has hit a roadblock, even with this year's launch of the Apple Vision Pro.
    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31路
      1 year ago

      Micro transactions rely on a massive market to increase chance of catching a whale. Are there even enough VR sold to make it a viable strategy? The only people I know who own a VR headset use it every other month.

  • drphungky@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5路
    1 year ago

    VR is probably going to stay niche, at least until AR explodes鈥ut AR absolutely will. Vision Pro showed what could be done to the masses, Google and others were working on the business side for years. It鈥檚 just a question of miniaturization and batteries, but I predict in 10 years AR will be exploding.

    • yonder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2路
      1 year ago

      I really hope AR does not catch on, especially if it鈥檚 from a company like Meta. This video perfectly shows what I could see Meta doing with their own AR platform if it goes mainstream, eeven if if the video itself is complete fiction.

      • drphungky@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3路
        1 year ago

        I love that video. Also, it鈥檚 unfortunately exactly WHY AR will catch on.

        But I don鈥檛 think it has to or even will turn out that way. The uses for learning alone will be amazing. Think of working on your car with an AR overlay. Maybe it鈥檒l even be powered by an actually effective ML algorithm trained solely on repair videos, if your make and model aren鈥檛 available. Think of going to a museum, and having unlimited placards and links and tangentially related deep dives. Think of 3d video calls where you don鈥檛 have to cluster around a computer screen, but can better see eye contact. There are definitely pros, and let鈥檚 not forget the Internet used to be a mess of ads like that. Things eventually improve.

  • Donkter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52路
    1 year ago

    Yeah there鈥檚 nothing to do in VR. You can鈥檛 play normal games and the cool VR games you can play are not worth buying a new console. Besides that there鈥檚 no killer app, no 3D workspace environment that makes it worth it. The most worthwhile thing I鈥檝e heard of is that if you鈥檙e a frequent flyer, it can be a nice private way to watch movies or sometimes do work.

    It feels like there should be something game changing to do in VR but whatever it is no one has made the program yet.

    • JaddedFauceet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3路
      1 year ago

      I use my vr as my monitor everyday or to watch content. quite nice being able to have my screen follow me along when i go grab water from the kitchen.

      also arbitrary screen configuration of arbitrary size and orientation.

      • yonder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3路
        1 year ago

        The big drawback I find with using virtual monitors is that the PPD is too low on most headsets to clearly render the monitor.