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VR is the "supersonic jet airliner" of computing. It will never be a thing. Give it a rest, sometimes technology is complete and doesn't need to be "disrupted"

VR is the "supersonic jet airliner" of computing. It will never be a thing. Give it a rest, sometimes technology is complete and doesn't need to be "disrupted" anymore.

xtracto 4y ago
It's like 3D video, it has come back 3 times in my life time, "this time for real " and it always ends up being a fad. I still think that while VR wont get mainstream, AR will deffinitely do.
towaway15463 4y ago
Sorry, you’re wrong on this. If you’ve actually spent significant time on the hardware and software that is getting it right then you would know. The problem is that there is a lot of experimental hardware and software getting it wrong but that’s to be expected in the early stages of any new technology. Go find someone that has a good VR setup which is either a valve index or a quest 2 connected to a high end gaming PC and play a few rounds of Pavlov on the weekend when everyone is online. Check out habie147 on YouTube for some decent reviews of good VR games.
- otabdeveloper4 4y ago
  Flying the Concorde was also really sweet, I heard people tell. That's not the point. I'm sure the technology for VR is kickass and the games are great, but nobody wanted or asked for "disruption" in the videogame space. (Except people who get a rush of "disrupting" things for "disruption"'s sake.)
  - ramesh31 4y ago
    >I'm sure the technology for VR is kickass and the games are great, but nobody wanted or asked for "disruption" in the videogame space. Nobody ever asked for disruption... that's why it's called disruption. But it turns out that VR never really disrupted games anyways. It just created a new category. Most people don't care about VR and have just continued playing normal games that are already expensive enough. VR has just added to the pie, not taken a slice.
  - towaway15463 4y ago
    Games are only the surface here but for me at least VR games are the only ones I play now. My steam library had been gathering dust for a few years since I had started to see the endless grind of modern games as nothing but a time sink, they had lost their flavour. With VR and multiplayer it’s opened an entirely new world of immersive and emergent gameplay. I’ve had more fun playing silly custom maps in Pavlov than I’ve had in decades of traditional gaming. I wouldn’t call VR a disruptor so much as a replacement for current displays and an addition of a new form of human interface device. People will probably still play pancake games in 10 years time using a keyboard and mouse or a game controller but they’ll be wearing a headset so they can have their game displayed at whatever size and fov they find optimal. There will also be a huge number of VR games and gamers and probably also a lot of mixed games where you can play in either VR or on a (virtual) screen.
ramesh31 4y ago
>VR is the "supersonic jet airliner" of computing. It will never be a thing. Someday VR will be there. It's not physically impossible. Supersonic passenger travel will never be efficient because aerodynamic drag exists. VR just needs a few generations of slimming down the hardware, innovating on control input, and streamlining the software. In 20 years we'll probably be in a place where eyeglass form factor full FOV AR/VR is a thing.
- otabdeveloper4 4y ago
  At this point it's easier to solve aerodynamic drag than it is to continue making hardware slimmer.

VR is the "supersonic jet airliner" of computing. It will never be a thing. Give it a rest, sometimes technology is complete and doesn't need to be "disrupted" anymore.

xtracto 4y ago

It's like 3D video, it has come back 3 times in my life time, "this time for real " and it always ends up being a fad. I still think that while VR wont get mainstream, AR will deffinitely do.

towaway15463 4y ago

Sorry, you’re wrong on this. If you’ve actually spent significant time on the hardware and software that is getting it right then you would know. The problem is that there is a lot of experimental hardware and software getting it wrong but that’s to be expected in the early stages of any new technology. Go find someone that has a good VR setup which is either a valve index or a quest 2 connected to a high end gaming PC and play a few rounds of Pavlov on the weekend when everyone is online. Check out habie147 on YouTube for some decent reviews of good VR games.

otabdeveloper4 4y ago
Flying the Concorde was also really sweet, I heard people tell. That's not the point. I'm sure the technology for VR is kickass and the games are great, but nobody wanted or asked for "disruption" in the videogame space. (Except people who get a rush of "disrupting" things for "disruption"'s sake.)
- ramesh31 4y ago
  >I'm sure the technology for VR is kickass and the games are great, but nobody wanted or asked for "disruption" in the videogame space. Nobody ever asked for disruption... that's why it's called disruption. But it turns out that VR never really disrupted games anyways. It just created a new category. Most people don't care about VR and have just continued playing normal games that are already expensive enough. VR has just added to the pie, not taken a slice.
- towaway15463 4y ago
  Games are only the surface here but for me at least VR games are the only ones I play now. My steam library had been gathering dust for a few years since I had started to see the endless grind of modern games as nothing but a time sink, they had lost their flavour. With VR and multiplayer it’s opened an entirely new world of immersive and emergent gameplay. I’ve had more fun playing silly custom maps in Pavlov than I’ve had in decades of traditional gaming. I wouldn’t call VR a disruptor so much as a replacement for current displays and an addition of a new form of human interface device. People will probably still play pancake games in 10 years time using a keyboard and mouse or a game controller but they’ll be wearing a headset so they can have their game displayed at whatever size and fov they find optimal. There will also be a huge number of VR games and gamers and probably also a lot of mixed games where you can play in either VR or on a (virtual) screen.

ramesh31 4y ago

>VR is the "supersonic jet airliner" of computing. It will never be a thing. Someday VR will be there. It's not physically impossible. Supersonic passenger travel will never be efficient because aerodynamic drag exists. VR just needs a few generations of slimming down the hardware, innovating on control input, and streamlining the software. In 20 years we'll probably be in a place where eyeglass form factor full FOV AR/VR is a thing.

otabdeveloper4 4y ago
At this point it's easier to solve aerodynamic drag than it is to continue making hardware slimmer.