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I've been a VR dev since 2014, and market-share / adoption is a huge problem. To a first approximation, you can not make enough money to run a studio in VR, ev

I've been a VR dev since 2014, and market-share / adoption is a huge problem. To a first approximation, you can not make enough money to run a studio in VR, even 5 years after DK1. Ontario, Canada has a great system of grants for game developers, but they have basically stopped funding VR titles, because they don't make any money. All of the people I know who went off to found VR studios are trying to survive on service work, rather than making custom IP. Either that, or working as loss-leader departments in larger companies. It's worse than indie development, if such a thing were possible. So ... yeah ... bring on the users while there are still some VR developers left.

jron 8y ago
I know sim racing is somewhat of a niche industry but the demand for high end VR is absolutely there: NoVRNoBuy was pretty much the only regular comment you would see when Codemaster's was hyping Dirt Rally 2.0 So much so that this is the changelog from Assetto Corsa's latest release: Assetto Corsa Competizione - Early Access v0.2 - Fixed "No VR no buy" ... [1] There are about 100 threads on Dirt Rally 2.0 echoing the same [2] This is a community that spends $500 on a steering wheel and $500-$1000 pedals are always out of stock [3][4] That doesn't even include the $1000 direct drive wheels [5][6] or the handbrakes, shifters, triple mount displays, and $500-1000 dollar rigs [7] I won't even get into the motion rigs... [1] https://steamcommunity.com/games/805550/announcements/detail/1700564528976573193 https://steamcommunity.com/games/805550/announcements/detail... [2] https://steamcommunity.com/app/690790/discussions/0/1735466157769817790/ https://steamcommunity.com/app/690790/discussions/0/17354661... [3] https://heusinkveld.com/heusinkveld-march-stock-update/?v=7516fd43adaa https://heusinkveld.com/heusinkveld-march-stock-update/?v=75... [4] https://www.protosimtech.com/ https://www.protosimtech.com/ [5] https://www.fanatec.com/us-en/wheel-bases/podium-wheel-base-dd1-usa.html https://www.fanatec.com/us-en/wheel-bases/podium-wheel-base-... [6] https://augurysimulations.com/products/ https://augurysimulations.com/products/ [7] https://sim-lab.eu/product/p1-chassis/ https://sim-lab.eu/product/p1-chassis/

jron 8y ago

I know sim racing is somewhat of a niche industry but the demand for high end VR is absolutely there: NoVRNoBuy was pretty much the only regular comment you would see when Codemaster's was hyping Dirt Rally 2.0 So much so that this is the changelog from Assetto Corsa's latest release: Assetto Corsa Competizione - Early Access v0.2 - Fixed "No VR no buy" ... [1] There are about 100 threads on Dirt Rally 2.0 echoing the same [2] This is a community that spends $500 on a steering wheel and $500-$1000 pedals are always out of stock [3][4] That doesn't even include the $1000 direct drive wheels [5][6] or the handbrakes, shifters, triple mount displays, and $500-1000 dollar rigs [7] I won't even get into the motion rigs... [1] https://steamcommunity.com/games/805550/announcements/detail/1700564528976573193 https://steamcommunity.com/games/805550/announcements/detail... [2] https://steamcommunity.com/app/690790/discussions/0/1735466157769817790/ https://steamcommunity.com/app/690790/discussions/0/17354661... [3] https://heusinkveld.com/heusinkveld-march-stock-update/?v=7516fd43adaa https://heusinkveld.com/heusinkveld-march-stock-update/?v=75... [4] https://www.protosimtech.com/ https://www.protosimtech.com/ [5] https://www.fanatec.com/us-en/wheel-bases/podium-wheel-base-dd1-usa.html https://www.fanatec.com/us-en/wheel-bases/podium-wheel-base-... [6] https://augurysimulations.com/products/ https://augurysimulations.com/products/ [7] https://sim-lab.eu/product/p1-chassis/ https://sim-lab.eu/product/p1-chassis/