1y ago

What is the next big thing in VR?

We have some new headsets on the horizon. I’m curious what direction people are hoping it goes in besides just overall improvement.

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Anything that is not a walled garden like Meta & Apple hopefully. Those are sadly killing VR.
A SteamDeck like standalone headset from Valve (as rumoured) would be good.
- What five pieces of content that are available but not on PCVR do you think would stop the death of VR?
  
  That isn't the problem, the reverse is the problem. Meta generally has the right idea to offer a relatively cheap standalone headset, but the way they try to control everything on it, lock it down and try to establish a monopoly appstore with a huge cut makes it very unattractive for developers.
  The few games that exist only on Quest are there because Meta bought the studio or directly paid for the development of the game.
  
  30% cut is the default for consoles, isn’t it? I hate meta just like the next guy, but the quest is the most attractive platform for VR games due, simply due to the user base and that stems from selling the hardware as cheaply as possible.
  Most people don’t care about a platform being open or closed, what they care about is the experience, ease of use and the content. Meta bought a lot of studios, but they’re far from owning or paying for the majority of studios with games on Quest.
  Imo VR‘s main problem is comfort, friction and people disliking having something stripped to their face.
- While that is a step in the right direction, I wouldn't be surprised if Vavle made their platform a walled garden as well. With the steam deck, they were very cool with people using the device for everything one might want. In VR, that is a but harder to pull off.

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