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I still don't understand why I would want one of these. There's no killer app that makes any sense to me. I mean, I absolutely do not want one from Facebook, o

I still don't understand why I would want one of these. There's no killer app that makes any sense to me. I mean, I absolutely do not want one from Facebook, or anything else from Zuck, but even if a company not founded on advertising revenue offered one I don't know why I'd want it.

seydor 3y ago
Pretty much the only app I use is the Wander app (Google Street View browser). I don't see the appeal of games but for static stuff i d say it has a lot of use cases (Architecture etc)
iamjake648 3y ago
I pretty much only use it for games with friends. Some of the Mini Golf, Ping Pong and Chess games are pretty good.
CatWChainsaw 3y ago
I don't want one of these because I want to be invested in games, not immersed. The first time a Gloom Spawn jumped out at me in TotK was bad enough and that was without a headset putting me in the position of actually having my life-force drained from me by shrieky-hydra-hands.
- lsaferite 3y ago
  Oh man, that dang Gloom Spawn startled me pretty bad the first few times I saw it and caused a hilarious (to observers) scene. One type of game I won't play in VR is a horror game. TBF, I won't play them at all, but any game that has scary bits won't be played in VR.
  - CatWChainsaw 3y ago
    I imagine many onlookers would be able to tell who is playing a horror VR game based on the presence of a nearby change of clothes.
chasebank 3y ago
I don't want one either but I'd imagine porn is 'killer app'.
- Ancapistani 3y ago
  Sorta. It's surely a popular use case, but I don't think it's going to be enough for it to spur adoption the way it allegedly did for VHS / home video. There are a couple of big issues with it. The biggest right now is probably lack of standardization in terms of video quality and features. It's difficult to find any VR content that maximizes the capability of even the Quest 2, much less porn. There's lots of stuff out there that's listed as "8K" and such, but is actually either badly upsampled lower-resolution video, or has been compressed so much by the streaming provider as to be unrecognizable. Likewise, most outlets tag content as "VR" but don't distinguish between 2D content that's been "split" into two video streams, 2D SBS (side-by-side), 3D SBS, etc. This isn't an insurmountable issue; at some point we'll likely see headsets become popular enough that it will be profitable for a company to move into the space and offer consistently high-quality content. The other issue is hardware-related: the apparent pixel density just isn't high enough yet for comfortable use long-term. I like my Quest 2. It's the first headset I've had that doesn't suffer from bad "screen door". The resolution is still too low to use it effectively for anything text-based, which is a shame because I really want to use it to interact with a virtual desktop for terminal-based development work.
- rchaud 3y ago
  It's not. VR Porn exists, but most porn users are not "enthusiasts" that will buy things to enhance their "hobby". On the same token, you have people that will drop thousands of $$ on cam girls, none of whom are camming in VR. People will pay for porn, just not the type that was thought up in a brainstorming session by a bunch of computer vision nerds.
pirate787 3y ago
I play about 4 days a week, the game Population One is awesome. I'll buy Quest 3 as soon as its available.

seydor 3y ago

Pretty much the only app I use is the Wander app (Google Street View browser). I don't see the appeal of games but for static stuff i d say it has a lot of use cases (Architecture etc)

iamjake648 3y ago

I pretty much only use it for games with friends. Some of the Mini Golf, Ping Pong and Chess games are pretty good.

CatWChainsaw 3y ago

I don't want one of these because I want to be invested in games, not immersed. The first time a Gloom Spawn jumped out at me in TotK was bad enough and that was without a headset putting me in the position of actually having my life-force drained from me by shrieky-hydra-hands.

lsaferite 3y ago
Oh man, that dang Gloom Spawn startled me pretty bad the first few times I saw it and caused a hilarious (to observers) scene. One type of game I won't play in VR is a horror game. TBF, I won't play them at all, but any game that has scary bits won't be played in VR.
- CatWChainsaw 3y ago
  I imagine many onlookers would be able to tell who is playing a horror VR game based on the presence of a nearby change of clothes.

chasebank 3y ago

I don't want one either but I'd imagine porn is 'killer app'.

Ancapistani 3y ago
Sorta. It's surely a popular use case, but I don't think it's going to be enough for it to spur adoption the way it allegedly did for VHS / home video. There are a couple of big issues with it. The biggest right now is probably lack of standardization in terms of video quality and features. It's difficult to find any VR content that maximizes the capability of even the Quest 2, much less porn. There's lots of stuff out there that's listed as "8K" and such, but is actually either badly upsampled lower-resolution video, or has been compressed so much by the streaming provider as to be unrecognizable. Likewise, most outlets tag content as "VR" but don't distinguish between 2D content that's been "split" into two video streams, 2D SBS (side-by-side), 3D SBS, etc. This isn't an insurmountable issue; at some point we'll likely see headsets become popular enough that it will be profitable for a company to move into the space and offer consistently high-quality content. The other issue is hardware-related: the apparent pixel density just isn't high enough yet for comfortable use long-term. I like my Quest 2. It's the first headset I've had that doesn't suffer from bad "screen door". The resolution is still too low to use it effectively for anything text-based, which is a shame because I really want to use it to interact with a virtual desktop for terminal-based development work.
rchaud 3y ago
It's not. VR Porn exists, but most porn users are not "enthusiasts" that will buy things to enhance their "hobby". On the same token, you have people that will drop thousands of $$ on cam girls, none of whom are camming in VR. People will pay for porn, just not the type that was thought up in a brainstorming session by a bunch of computer vision nerds.

pirate787 3y ago

I play about 4 days a week, the game Population One is awesome. I'll buy Quest 3 as soon as its available.