Wonko_C
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There seems to be a recent influx of new VR players recently and I stumbled on a couple of videos (it's always fun watching people's reactions). One of them in particular commented on how while he loved the experience, there are a couple of things that made he says "I'm still playing a video game" or "It still didn't fool me into thinking it was real". To which I say: Well duh! what were you expecting? of course it's a video game, not only that, you're playing it on the same hardware you play flatscreen videogames, it's ovbious it would still look like a video game.
Am I alone in thinking VR should not be seen as a replacement for reality but as a way to be inside a video game? When I was a kid and I played Doom I started dreaming that I was inside Doom, but never imagined it as a "realistic" version of Doom, I just wanted to be inside Doom as it was, pixelated graphics and all. (And I can finally do it with QuestZDoom, and it was exactly as I imagined back in my childhood)
Sure there are tons of realistic-looking games that simulate physics and interactions, but I still look at them as video games, and I don't need to look at them as anything more than that.
Am I alone in thinking VR should not be seen as a replacement for reality but as a way to be inside a video game? When I was a kid and I played Doom I started dreaming that I was inside Doom, but never imagined it as a "realistic" version of Doom, I just wanted to be inside Doom as it was, pixelated graphics and all. (And I can finally do it with QuestZDoom, and it was exactly as I imagined back in my childhood)
Sure there are tons of realistic-looking games that simulate physics and interactions, but I still look at them as video games, and I don't need to look at them as anything more than that.
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