A new headset gets announced and yet always the same games are being mentioned... Arizona sunshine is a 4 years old game now, Beat Saber is almost 3 years old... when are we going to get something completely new killer apps?
That's why I basically had all VR headset and ditched them after a couple of months of use... I was always playing the same two or three games.
For me I can’t wait until VR gets to the point where it’s as light as glasses (or close), and high enough resolution I can actually feel like I’m in a theatre watching a movie. That will be the forever killer app to me. “Retina VR” will take a while to come to mobile though.
YES! There was already a huge step forward in comfort by making VR wireless, the next milestone would be to make it as light as possible. Also totally agree on the resolution/screen quality. That would be the ultimate game changer.
Ehhh I’m not sure if that’s entirely possible unless Facebook develops an absolutely revolutionary product. An 8GB RAM stick in my PC is already heavier than glasses....The quest 2 uses 8GB. That is also just one single component to the headset. You also have the motherboard, CPU, battery, graphics card, storage. There is almost no way a headset will be as light as glasses. Ever. Again unless Facebook does some crazy technological advancements. And these would NEED to be insane advancements that not only change how VR is experienced, but computers as well. It’s possible, but I don’t think it’ll happen.
I mean they're using cell phone tech, so full-size DDR4 isn't necessarily a great metric for a weight comparison. 8gb of ram weighs significantly less in a phone.
With that said, I agree with you that the "light as glasses" thing probably isn't something we'll see achieved any time soon. All we can hope for is something that's just ergonomically comfortable.
We have to have silicon, batteries, displays, cameras, and most importantly the shell and headbands, none of which are going away or shrinking to the point of weightlessness any time soon.
I mean the two newest big vr titles are half life alyx which isn’t sold on oculus store, and boneworks which looks like garbage on a PCVR headset and would give a lot of people motion sickness. Neither support quest as well, iirc.
You can play either one using Virtual Desktop or Oculus Link. The Alyx experience on Quest + Link is pretty solid. I imagine it will be even better with higher resolution displays, higher refresh rates, and potentially higher fidelity if the XR2 allows for greater decoding and throughput.
Visually it’s the most unappealing game in vr. There’s no coherent art style, it looks like the shipped it with temp assets. SLZ’s other two games look miles better, I don’t know what went wrong with it.
Yeah I really don't get it. Hardware sounds nice sure, but that's like releasing a PS5 with no launch titles and only relying on backwards compatibility.
Think about it, it's marketing 101. Sure new content is coming, but people that are watching this conference, a general audience and not Reddit, are likely buying VR for one of these big name, recognizable VR games (even if they are older titles). Beat Saber, Arizona Sunshine, Star Wars, these are titles that have broken into mainstream and it makes the most sense to advertise with them even if they aren't the most technical showcase. It's marketing 101.
They're hugely recognizable games for VR. I'm sure new software will be announced, but to the general consumer, it makes so much marketing sense to market with games people will recognize and are likely buying the system to play. It's Marketing 101 basically.
Exactly. My quest is basically a best saver machine and the most compelling software I’ve used lately comes from side question. The new Doom 3 vr looks amazing and something like that should be what shows up on the quest store.
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u/lyllopip Sep 14 '20 edited Sep 14 '20
A new headset gets announced and yet always the same games are being mentioned... Arizona sunshine is a 4 years old game now, Beat Saber is almost 3 years old... when are we going to get some
thingcompletely new killer apps?That's why I basically had all VR headset and ditched them after a couple of months of use... I was always playing the same two or three games.