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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: VR still on the rise?
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On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:54:15 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

And more evidence that VR is on the decline: VR dev "Toast
Interactive" is laying off most of its staff.* Admittedly, this is a
small Indie team and one you likely never heard of (I never did);
their biggest game was "Max Mustard"). Still, it's indicative of how
VR no longer seems quite has promising a future as it once seemed.

And despite the fact that I keep harping on this --bring up companies
that are backing out of VR or folding completely-- I don't take joy in
this news. Because like many gamers, I _want_ VR to succeed; I want a
technology that allows me to completely immerse myself in my games.
Like many in the 90s, I lusted after the Forte VFX1; I played the VR
games in the arcades. I was optimistically hopeful when the first
Oculus Rift came out. But increasingly, this generation of VR failed
to live up to those hopes; it was gimmicky, it was silo'd, and it
still presented as many (if not more) problems as it promised to
solve.






* here's somebody going on about it!
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/vr-dev-toast-interactive-lays-off-majority-of-staff