Stop coping already, it’s embarrassing. VR isn’t “changing” anything. VR porn isn’t “changing sex”, and FPV displays for drones aren’t “changing war”.

Listen, it’s okay that we bought into an over-hyped and ultimately useless tech gimmick that was genuinely fun and exciting for a time. But it does no one any good to constantly try to validate it with this level of inflated importance.

No, it wasn’t. I just bought one and still needed a Meta account. Where are you getting this bullshit, stop it

Great, more prohibitively expensive, feature-stripped, mobile phone based VR slop with proprietary app stores.

Isn’t that more of a flatscreen thing?

Oh no, we’re on it for the same reasons. I honestly would be willing to shill the doubled price point of a PCVR headset, but ALL of them (excluding the massively overpriced) have shit-tier displays compared to the Quest 3, which is why I can’t quite justify it yet. Of course, if Meta wasn’t selling at a loss it wouldn’t even be a question, just fuck them.

REALLY wish Valve would just upgrade their display. Would help if peripheral headset companies weren’t price gouging out the ass for worthless gimmicks.

South Africa W

I can’t even begin to explain why that is such a stupid fucking statement

Gross, “cinematic FPS” and “VR” should NEVER be used in the same fucking sentence. Whoever thought this was a good idea, you need to start listening to people and seek a different career path like you’ve definitely been told a million times before.

Of course. It looked like shit and streamed like hot garbo even on normal computers and smart TVs, I can only imagine how fucking miserable VR Netflix was. And it’s Netflix, no one should be paying for that slop any more anyway. lol, as if VR would ever maintain any kind of meaningful suite of services.

I genuinely hate what VR has become. They’re signing this tech’s death warranty and they should know that. After over a decade we’ve just about plateaued in terms of developing objectively better headsets, and fucked any chance of having a PCVR/peripheral headset that actually looks good, has good tracking, and works universally with whatever the fuck you want too hook up to it without being $1500 or more.

Not to mention locomotion hasn’t made any real progress and we’ve actually scrapped a lot of promising looking haptics tech that could have been a standard feature of VR controllers. We’ve also lost any hope of 3rd party controller support.

We’re cooked, and I don’t see this going anywhere good. Keep what you have for novelty’s sake and future ‘collector’s’ value, but don’t bother looking forward to a future of VR or AR beyond gimmicky shit like google glasses and whatever the fuck Cuckerberg is doing.

They go down frequently and are notorious for being riddled with trap files and malware. No one should be using the bay anymore. 1337x has the same problem now but slightly less than the bay, and a lot of domains are now honeypots. This guy probably read one post about piracy close to a decade ago and NEVER learned anything new after that.

lol, talk about a lack of standards

What?

It’s not a lack of software that killed it, it’s the lack of ability to use any meaningful library of software due to proprietary restraints, as always. I don’t know when everyone made the switch from VR as a peripheral to strictly proprietary, “stand-alone” (and die alone) headsets, but it’s literally killing VR as a whole.

Don’t get me wrong, the current strict PCVR companies aren’t any better. They see what’s happening and are doubling down on the massive cost hike despite looking shittier and technically having less features than SA headsets. That being said, they work INFINITELY smoother with PC apps and game and movies, in addition to higher quality tracking systems and third-party hardware support. This alone should put them ahead by a long-shot, but being an unaffordable hobby niche doesn’t help when large corpos can churn out headsets full of “stand-alone” bloat at a loss just to devour the majority of the VR market and lock people into hopeless, proprietary hellscapes.

Completely disagree with you here, and you really didn’t explain any of it. In what way does the apple face-book-mac whatever the fuck do things “way nicer” than any other headset? I get that the resolution is objectively higher than the mid-to-low end sets, but a complete lack of actual features negates that. Does the UI just have super silky animations? Transparent icons? A really sexy audio cue when you boot it up? All of this is fluff to make people feel like they made a good purchase decision.

I’m almost certain that you’ve been using this little “polish” phrase for years to justify being an Apple stan without thinking about it. You see literally any other option as the intimidating, lifted-truck meany that doesn’t appreciate that mirror shine on the back of your phone.

And yeah, most people are fresh-out of innovation. That’s besides the point, and you know it. Apple is included on that lineup, and they’re furious that someone else came up with VR and they somehow let the market create a variety of products before they could reliably gimmick the fuck out of it like they always do. Your turtle-neck fruit daddy died a long time ago, no one has any business considering Apple a respectable company anymore.

Which is exactly my point. They cater to people who want the shiniest ‘new’ thing with a sense of faux class to it, and will strip some pretty fucking bare-bones features in place of “polish”. Such a stupid, meaningless word to excuse a complete and utter lack of anything of substance.

90% of the apps and games that got people interested in VR aren’t even compatible, and you KNOW they never will be. What the fuck else are you gonna do with this $3500 toy? Read emails and watch full-priced movies on iTunes? BUT MAN IT’S LIKE TOUCH SCREEN, BUT EVERYWHERE AND IN REAL LIFE! There’s nothing here. ‘Polish’ isn’t a real thing. It’s a cherry-on-top adjective for something that already has inherent value, it isn’t something of real value in its self.

Sorry man, I gotta go off on this ‘compelling and polished’ thing. Apple does maybe one “compelling” thing per decade, but even that seems like a thing of the past now. They’ve been riding the one-trick-pony that is the touch-screen smartphone for fucking ever now, and as amazing as people think it is to have a powerful computer in the palm of your hand, it’s contributed shockingly little beyond making the cell phone A. societally mandatory for everyone, and B. MASSIVELY expensive compared to what could have been.

Now sure, it’s slightly more convenient to pay for parking and complete rudimentary “productivity” tasks that you might need your laptop for, but that can be accomplished with much less. About the most “compelling” thing this technology has contributed to the world is the ability to endlessly doomscroll through funny little pictures and videos, with some REALLY sub-par and barely-tolerable games to make your city transit commute feel almost bearable. No, it’s not going to get any better, they’ve had WAY too long. It’s not going to happen now.

Apple isn’t really a military contract/industrial complex type, they’re more the retarded, pretentious rich people and retarded poor-ish people who think they’re rich because they saved 15% or more on Geico type.

This is triple-priced in even the most generous case, and 7x higher than the Quest 3.

Wow, you mean jacking the price up fucking 7x that of your competitors for about the same or less capability, just because you made the screen resolution slightly higher, isn’t a sound business decision? Why do these people still exist, lol