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The VR Struggle Is Real

Hey, the HTC Vive has experienced a major price drop! And PlayStation VR bundles are often going on sale. And the Oculus Rift's price dropped both permanently and temporarily. Wait, should people be worried?

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ApocalypseShadow3188d ago (Edited 3188d ago )

Post facts for this opinion piece or send it to the trash bin with the other nonsense out there.

Explains it very well about the unfair nonsense of fly by night journalists and gamers who have no clue on how this works. Gaming itself didn't happen overnight and took time to perfect and still is being perfected today.
http://www.gamesindustry.bi...

Just a quick Google search shows that people in the know...KNOW that it will take some time.
https://arstechnica.com/gam...
http://www.tvbeurope.com/vr...
http://www.telecomtv.com/ar...
http://www.playstationlifes...
https://venturebeat.com/201...

The main companies, analysts, developers and individuals with common sense can tell that high priced VR headsets will sell slowly and not be main stream for a while. Most of these companies aren't looking to get your grandparents into VR. They know it will take time to perfect just as gaming took time also. But VR is also entering education, the medical field, car industry, real estate, job instruction, entrainment, etc. But you're ignoring that too huh article writer? As long as developers and headset manufactures make a profit, VR will do well as it grows.

First it was that headsets are expensive to buy. Now it's "suspicious" if they bring prices down for consumers to buy. If it were fire sales with bargain bin pricing, then I would worry. But no one complains when a console lowers in price or has a sale. And, I've never seen PSVR selling for $299 bundled with games. It only recently dropped in price to $399 with camera and $449 for the bundle.
https://blog.us.playstation...
So, article writer, you're talking out of your @$$.

**That this is happening with the HTC Vive, PSVR, and Oculus Rift all at once is a sure sign of desperation.**

Bull$#!+... Click bait article is nonsense. Sure, VR isn't perfect. But it's not on its death bed either and needs time to grow. People with fad mentality and think everything needs to be an instant success expecting overnight sensations on everything from music artists, videos, consumer products, etc, just don't know any better. Common sense.

PurpHerbison3187d ago

Sound like a disgruntled person that bought VR and is desperately trying to justify the purchase.

WeAreLegion3187d ago

You sound like someone who hasn't tried VR. Come to my place any time. I'll let you try any game.

JackBNimble3187d ago

Why would a VR owner need to justify anything ?
I'm a VR owner and I bought into because I wanted the tech... absolutely no reason to justify my purchase to anyone.

jugo143187d ago

exactly my thoughts lol

Neonridr3187d ago

@JackBNimble - agree, but people get testy if others don't agree with them. They feel the need to defend the fact that they like it. Much like the console wars. People justifying their purchases by putting others down for choosing something else. Rift vs Vive was much like that in the early days. Then for the most part everyone grew up and decided to just play together instead.. meanwhile over on this side of the fence.. nothing changes.

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jasonpugh3187d ago

It's a gimmick and nowhere near becoming mainstream. Like Kinect, Move, 3D television, or the Power Glove.

mcstorm3186d ago

Spot on. I said this along time ago. Vr is not a success and you can see that on the PlayStation side more than anything. Kinect sold something like 10 million on the 360 install Base and psvr has not hit 1 million yet.
Its not that it's not good or adds to gaming its Purley not what people want and look at how many PS4 vr games we are now seeing or support it's getting from its 1st party games. Get was going to be the next bog vr game and look at what we are getting. Even Microsoft have not talked about vr support on the Xbox x. I also dot recall many PC developers talking about vr support and you see less and less about phone vr to.

For me vr and ar have some great uses but they don't enhance the exireance that much to make people want to use it day in day out and I have not even talked about the price this is another issue to.

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andibandit3186d ago

I dont think a whole lot of people expected an overnight sensation. I remember first seeing VR in the early 90's and back then they said, in a few years VR could really take off when computers become more powerful and the technology becomes cheaper.
Fast forward 23 years:
same problems different millennium.

filchron3187d ago

Ofcourse 1st gen VR is gonna be rough but when PS5's VR headset gets shown with dual 1440p displays and photorealistic graphics for 299$ people are going to run over their own grandmas to get one..

kneon3187d ago

It better go beyond 1440p, I expect 4k to be the next big jump in VR, 1440p isn't quite enough.

There are also a few companies working on eye tracking so only the area you are actually looking at gets rendered at full resolution. That reduces the compute requirements.

filchron3187d ago

1440p per eye. As in, two 1440p displays in a single unit. should be a good enough bump from the current PSVR resolution of 960p per eye plus factor in next FFXV Agni's philoshy "The Cry" tech demo calibur graphics https://youtu.be/fQ4HoPLwrI...
I think those kinds of visuals would tax the hardware too much to make Dual 4K displays per headset feasible. But there was a rumor of the PS5 using 3D stacked ram, which might make it unexpectly beastlier than we can even picture right now with our current tech of just making new consoles 6-8x more powerful than the previous gen.

kneon3186d ago

Except that it's not dual 4k, it's 4k total, 2kx2k per eye. Just like the psvr has a 1920x1080 display resulting in 960x1080 per eye.

Neonridr3187d ago

dual 1440p? That might be a significant increase over the PSVR but you do know that the Rift and Vive both have dual 1200p screens right?

Problem with photorealistic graphics is the horsepower required to push it at > 90fps.

filchron3187d ago

I'd be perfectly fine with 75Hz. 90hz seems kinda overkill and cheesy animations get way too "overexposed" and such a high refresh rate.

Neonridr3186d ago

@filchron - there's a reason why 90fps is recommended. Because everything can get jittery below that and induce nausea.

BenRC013186d ago

Utter nonsense. Once bitten twice shy. No one is buying into vr after Sony have pretty much ruined it reputation.
Re7 vr was tremendous, maybe the best game I've ever played, but that's it. No more. Nothing on the horizon. crappy puzzlers and indie experiments.
Vr is DEAD.

gangsta_red3187d ago (Edited 3187d ago )

It would help if there were some actual high profile and must have titles for VR and not just some cool experiences.

Neonridr3187d ago

see Rift. many big name developers on board creating solid experiences..

Gamist2dot03187d ago

My VR purchase is worth it when Ace Combat 7 releases... and hopefully Battlefront 2 supports VR.

MegamanXXX3187d ago

I hope so too Oculus rift owner here

Neonridr3187d ago

hopefully Battlefront has more than just one sample mission again.

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PapaBop66d ago

Good list but Thrill of the Fight 2 and Racket Club should be in this. TOFT 2 is one hell of a work out and even found myself watching boxing instructional videos in order to improve. Racket Club does an amazing job adapting tennis, badminton and pickleball into something that feels realistic but fits in with smaller VR spaces.

kevco3365d ago

Both of these are great games!

TOFT has already featured in 131XR's 'best' series: https://youtu.be/jExm8PbCVq...

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