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From: Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: VR still on the rise?
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:20:11 -0600
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On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:54:15 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote: 

>
>Gamespot has an article that suggests that -despite a number of new VR
>titles being released in 2024- it feels like something of a swansong
>for the platform, with general excitement over the technology
>dwindling amongst users and fans.*
>
>And honestly, I can't say that I disagree, but I also am not sure I'm
>in a position to judge. I never really got onto the "new" VR
>bandwagon, and have always considered the whole thing a bit of a
>gimmick. Nor do I hang out with a lot of VR fans. It's possible I'm
>just out of touch. 
>
>Still, despite the release of several new games big VR titles ("Metro
>Awakening", for example, or "Batman: Arkham Shadow") it doesn't seem
>like VR is making much of a splash anymore. It isn't in the news
>often, we don't see big new hardware revisions, and Sony even paused
>production of their PSVR2 because they had a huge backlog of unsold
>devices. Meanwhile, Facebook keeps trying to promote the best use of
>MetaVR as its awful metaverse concept, and the Apple Vision Pro was an
>overpriced flop. 
>
>Is this second age of VR coming to an end? It's not entirely dead yet,
>but it does seem like the excitement over the platform has faded and
>--except for platform fanatics-- it just isn't drawing in new users
>(or, as importantly, users who keep using the device after the initial
>novelty wears off) they way it used to. What new stuff we see seems
>largely to be titles that have been in production for years and are
>only coming out now; meanwhile, hardware companies seem to be
>shuttering their VR device plans and VR game development is slowing
>down or being quietly ended entirely.
>
>I dunno. It doesn't seem a very positive outlook for the platform, but
>--again-- that opinion may just be because I've never had a positive
>outlook on it to begin with. What do you think? Do you see VR living
>up to its promise and taking over the industry as it was once expected
>to? Are you considering getting a new VR device anytime soon? If you
>own a VR device, how often do you actually use it?
>
I don't own one, but I have a comment.

VR. 3D. Virtual assistants. Marketers keep bringing back these things
every 5-10 years with a new skin, and arguably better tech, and they
always fail.

I don't know for sure why that is, but maybe it's not the technology.
Maybe it has something to do with people being hardwired to prefer
*reality* and other *actual human beings*.

Maybe it's something to do with the "uncanny valley" effect.

-- 
Zag

This is csipg.rpg - reality is off topic. ...G. Quinn ('08)