Is VR a gimmick or the future of gaming?

Is VR a gimmick or the future of gaming?

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Right now it's the worst thing.
Wait for headsets with decent resolution so that they're usable for racing and flight sims.

I bought a vive a couple months ago and had a ton of fun with it for the first couple weeks but now I just use it for porn and waifu sex simulator

while VR will remain a niche thing for the next 80 years, experiments with VR will lead to a boom of very popular AR games

it's a niche product that's gonna stick around

don't expect a large, mature market for many years now

A shitty gimmick that will never, ever catch on. Especially not mainstream.
It has potential for small niche market like sim-players and whatnot, but not much beyond that.

Yes.

I think oculus lost around half their sales due to this repulsive hairy fuck

Just ordered a Pimax, not sure if I win or lose Internets for this

vr is super disapointing

its great for 20 minutes

then you realise all of the downfalls of vr and return to just using a monitor

what, you don't want to be like swarthy nostril man

You can use Vorpex and Tridef 3d to play regular games in 3d, wouldn't have returned my vive had I known.

his nose looks like the top half of ghostface from the scream movies

meh I can't be bothered with all the setup, porn is enough for me

I play most multiplats on PS4 anyways because trophies and physical copies

I think it's current guise it will be a gimmick but in the future, when it's evolved a bit, it might be more important.

I doubt in 100 years people will be sitting around TVs with their gamepads like we are now.

i wouldn't be so sure about that, it's an enjoyable and comfortable social-permissive setup and a gamepad is a good input device for lots of types of games

It's a fad, just like one of them televisions. It ain't gonna catch on, ya here?

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Gimmick

tvs are dying

50+" monitors are a growing market on the other hand

Gimmick, still great for viewing porn

It's a future but not the near one.
Stop trying to push this shit, it's too early.

Your moms a gimmick

It's a gimmick. The headsets are expensive as fuck, and so is the hardware to run them decently. That and there isn't a lot of games for VR that aren't indie

It's like 3D gaming, that was once heralded as the future of gaming and movies, but because of how much it cost and little game support, its adoption rate was terrible and now thats pretty much dead.

VR will die off in the same way

Nope it will replace screens, this is coming from someone whos tried it.

it's obviously the future of gaming but right now with its current tech it's just a gimmick.

It's the future. With VorpX you can play pretty much all games in 3d. If you're not like gramps getting headaches from 3d movies, you can play even arena shooters just fine. It's expensive but that's not a problem if you're not a neet fag.

It is a gimmick. However unlike other gimmicks if porn gets behind it then it will keep a guaranteed audience which over time can allow the device to be more attractive to the mainstream market.

It's a gimmick.
>headaches/nausea
>no content
>too expensive
>movement issue still not solved

Here's the biggest problem - it requires too much effort. You need to put the headset on, possibly stand to play those room-sized games, hold the controllers etc. It's not better enough than traditional gaming to give up the comfy couch.

no it won't

and this is coming from someone who owns a vive

it's just another thing, it's not replacing anything

is that Cred Forums gold account?

Nah. $300 TV and everyone in the room can watch it. $600 headset and only you can use it.

It'll only replace screens for neets who literally never ever have anyone else look at their computer screen

I own a vive, it will replace pc monitors for sure.

Gimmick
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It's the same shit as the 1990's. Adds, you can literally do anything without the expensive headgear.

It is the future, but it's still a gimmick. Just like it was in the nineties. Probably be a gimmick our entire life, but eventually it will be the main format for gaming.

no the two will just both exist alongside each other, it's not a replacement to traditional displays

if you actually owned one you'd know this. It's not going to replace the monitor.

Come at me bro I preordered the fucker. Literally no reason to own a monitor after they're perfect.

It's not worth much right now, but I genuinely believe it will be the next big thing once tech gets good enough that a good quality version of VR become affordable for the average consumer, it's more of a hobbyist market right now, especially if you want an actually decent experience with it.

I think gimmick implies a flaw with the idea. It's got potential but the current state of affairs is poor due to no serious games designed for it (basically just a resurgence of the same shitty toy games they released when motion controls were a fad). It's also too expensive, not to say they're overpricing it, it could be just that expensive to manufacture, however people need inexpensive peripherals and the computer requirements are too great. The technology is nearly here to achieve the effect of entirely overriding vision, but it's not at a mass market pricepoint. Hopefully they can get enough money to fix the depth of field/lens focusing issue before companies cut funding.

not him but you would have to get multiple headsets if you ever want to watch something with someone or play together. They CAN replace a monitor but the monitor can still do things vr can't.

>Haven't heard one non white or child in a single game in VR yet.
I think I know why Cred Forums is so desperate to see this fail.

kids play VR though

try recroom

I'm not saying it like it's a bad thing though, the kids in rec room act fine

I wish they didnt though. I go into recroom and try and make kids cry in paintball and its hard.

this

wow rude

I like recroom because everybody is friendly

5 star post.

>the future of gaming

It's proposal is so different from what we have right now when it comes to videogames that asking if it's the future of gaming is like asking if tvs are the future of radio, regardless of whether vr floats or sinks.

Well shame on me for trying to extract the tears of children.

>Motorized carriages are a gimmick, user. There's no way in hell they'll ever fully replace the horse-drawn buggy.

You're a fucking imbecile. Horses and cars serve the same fucking purpose. On the other hand VR and videogames offer completely different experiences. Let me guess, you're one of those retards that still think mobile games and videogames are the same too, aren't you?

>Being so self-deluded that you can't accept the fact that mobile games are indeed vidya

It must be hard for you, going through life having to accept things the way they are instead of the way you want them to be.

Not for work it won't. I need to be able to see my coworkers when they walk up to discuss things. Plus, I don't want to be reaching for my waterbottle and trying to drink from it with stuff strapped to my face.

>having to accept things the way they are instead of the way you want them to be.
Yes user, that's something we like to call reality.

And the reality of this world is that yes, mobile games are considered vidya by the development industry and consumers alike.

It's only neckbearded Cred Forumsirgins that try to arbitrarily define them as something else.

Realistically, by the time they are at a decent enough resolution, their form factor will be glasses-sized and weight with either a flip up lenses, or a button on the side for perfect stereo pass-through. Already exists, in non-consumer VR headsets.

'Cell-phone VR' is the future of all display technology.

Google Plastic will be a real thing, most likely Google Glass 2 AR-focused.
HTC will have their own version made to work with SteamVR and lighthouse tracking.
Samsung will have a GearVR 2.
Apple will eventually be dragged along, and claim credit for inventing it all.

These are what will really drive HMD adoption. They will quickly move beyond being just holders for normal slate style smartphones and simply be the new smartphone form factor (which will enable them to become smaller and lighter). Wireless video will be effectively solved in a relatively robust and future-proof way (capable of much higher resolution@fps than the contemporary HMDs), and so these will probably just become the standard HMDs, even though their on-board hardware is still much weaker than contemporary PCs.

It's important to note, just having an HMD is not VR. VR is having an HMD with a large 1:1 tracking envelope, ideally with multiple other tracked points on your body. Currently this is only really done well with the HTC Vive, which tracks the HMD and two wand-type controllers in a 'room scale' tracking envelope. There are lots of other amazing third party tracking solutions (#1 example being leapmotion), which will be slowly integrated over coming generations.

The current critical failure of both the Oculus Rift and the PSVR is their weak tracking technologies. They both use optical tracking, which just isn't quite ready, despite a seeming inevitability that it will eventually be the final solution for tracking. I feel like Oculus, at least, really believed it was finally time for it, and maybe even could have been successful with it if not for Vive beating them to it by so much time and with such perfect tracking. With Sony it is clearly a cynical lazy move to reuse their old hardware, because they don't really care about PSVR or VR in general, the entire thing is jut a cynical lazy cash-grab riding other peoples hype.

VR is stupid until we reach .hack tier gaming possibility. Then my life will be complete.