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0 pointsagar4y ago0 comments

Jeez, you're slagging the entire value of VR because your specific setup is finicky?

Your complaints # 1-3 are a software issue that, while mildly annoying, will ultimately be resolved in an update. Creating a new guardian is literally a 15 second process.

Numbers 4-8 are because you choose to use a wireless headset from Oculus as a wired headset through Steam. Of course that's your choice, but the optimized workflow - that the vast majority of buyers use and is the primary product design - is to use on-headset apps without a PC or cable entirely.

It's also highly unfair to say "very very few things work well in VR" based on your experience. The vast majority of consumers don't care about Facebook IDs, or PCVR, or Steam libraries, or future compatibility concerns, or the other reasons you probably choose the setup you do.

If you want to judge the current state of VR for the mass market, go to the on-headset Quest store and try Walking Dead, Resident Evil 4, Walkabout Mini Golf, Contractors, Eleven Table Tennis, I Expect You to Die, Thrill of the Fight, In Death: Unchained, Fisherman's Tale, RealVR Fishing, Golf+, Moss, Tetris Effect, Pistol Whip, Red Matter, Shadow Point, or any of the other highly rated games that work out of the box.

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Bellend4y ago

I am running a 3k base system (from work that I chose) and a 1k graphics card. Literally saying on the packaging "VR READY" while running Windows 10.

Forgive me that it is "finicky" in my "specific setup".

Paying 80 pound for a wire so I can play titles such as Alyx while being wired seems reasonable to me. I mean, they literally sell you a wire for 1/3 the cost of the headset as a product so there is a market for it and they should provide me with a "Don't ask again" checkbox given that it's the same system but they don't?

Very few things conceptually work well in VR. Sorry. Lets see how you play FIFA for example or literally anything that doesn't involve just arm and head movements that is worth the effort.

I am very aware of the VR market and out of everything you said, the only thing I will accept is "I Expect you to Die" and it's sequel but the rest of those are tired at best bringing nothing new.

Sorry friend, I doubt I will be ringing bells any time soon for the "METAVERSE" based on what I have seen whilst keeping in mind that I am aware that I can play what are essentially bad unity games on my headset without PCVR.

usrbinbash4y ago

But these mass-market applications all have one thing in common:

They are games. What's more, most of them are rather simple games, and their only novelty is the IO device they were designed for.

This is a far far far cry from the supposed applications promised by the "metaverse" clamor as a place to do serious work and basically spend a substantial portion of our lives in.

Is it cool that I can put on a headset and hunt some robots in VR, aiming with my hands and dodging stuff by moving around? Absolutely! Is it cool that this is possible wo. being connected to a computer because the headset itself is so powerful? Undeniably!

Is it cool that these devices are becoming actually affordable for the masses, and easy&intuitive to use on top if that? Hell yeah!

But the technological & societal revolution that "metaverse" is presented as? Not by a long shot.

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