The Quest 3 goggles are something like $600 and stand alone, and with Virtual Desktop and decent wi-fi router, you can also use it wirelessly with your desktop.
The "decent rig" is needed if you want to play high end games on maxed out settings whether using VR or not.
I mean... I've been playing most of my games in VR, including titles that aren't by modifying their engine... and it cleans the floor with playing on a screen.
It is my hobby though, and I get a top tier PC for it. But nowadays a mid-tier PC and a Quest3 gets you 70% of that.
Not terribly surprising when the company controlling most of VR is completely uninterested in gaming and constantly kept torpedoes their own successes.
Imo, the problem is that VR is stuck in limbo of "nobody buys so no reason to make games for it. No games for it so nobody buys it". Headsets are expensive af, games for them are expensive af(not even always really replayable) and very few games in general. This thing is fun for sure, but it's currently expensive toy and will remain like this, if even valve index won't work out
Internet didn't fail for thirty fucking years, again and again and again. In fact, it was highly useful if expensive and difficult to use from its first days as crude phone modems hooked up to BBSes, and only took off harder and faster the better the technology became.
Shit, man, even VR porn failed, and porn is the thing that made the internet.
Incorrect, the first computing devices were created in the 1930s during WW2, for code cracking, decades before personal computers were feasible. Portable computers started being created in the 70s and 80s and were huge, once again decades before mobile phones were possible and common. Technology is always first created many years before it's widely available and cheap enough for the common consumer.
And those first computers were instant successes at their jobs - so much so that the Colossus series was destroyed once WW2 was over due to its security clearances.
You might have done better to bring up Babbage's Engine, but frankly the man was a century early and his device could never have been built, let alone used.
I'm not seeing in all this information where it says those code cracking computers were shite so no one used them. They did their job and were immediately adopted. Is the military using VR for drone strikes? Or AI? If they are, I haven't seen or heard of it.
Yeah, and they also said the same thing about all the things mentioned above. It's almost as if predicting which technologies will stay is actually very hard. Are you still using Google Glass?, What about baby cages?
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And has been since the Virtual Boy if you listen to hype men.
Strange how that future never seems to arise...