I agree 100%. I don't have enough space in my apartment as my furniture gets in the way. I'm not planning to throw my quality furniture in the trash. If I want VR ready room I will also need to throw my bed away which is insane.
Not every gamer even wants to focus on first person games which is what VR is all about too.
It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed
Some people love VR, and can’t get enough. Most people don’t.www.howtogeek.com
- Some sources suggest that the VR market has stagnated, with declining headset sales and not enough games to convince newcomers to jump onboard.
- Barriers to VR adoption persist, including space constraints, cost, the threat of motion sickness, platform fragmentation, and a level of effort that asks a lot from the consumer.
- VR still has enthusiast appeal, and likely will for many years to come, but cracking the consumer market even with entry-level headsets looks set to be a challenge for a while yet.
I think part of the issue is that the Quest 2 was too weak graphically. You just had to sacrifice too much to play the game on that device. The Quest 3 is way way better and can put in genuinely nice looking games.
yep goes along with the WSJ reports that Quests gather dust for most shortly after purchase.
we're seriously judging success or failure of a platform by app downloads now?
might just be pointing out that the 3S failed to boost VR demand in 2024. But it is a data point in favor of failure.
The Gamecube was not and sold more. And Nintendo lost less on it than Meta did on Q2. And Nintendo made a lot of big games for GC.
google it. easy to find.
Of course flat-screen has more games, but that's not the point I'm making.
VR is dead. GC means Gamecube in case that was the hurdle for you.
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Because it’s all a test bed for AR. Eventually AR glass will be the future not phones.
"Quest retention rates, meaning continued use by owners, have dropped in each of the past three years, the documents show. More than half of Quest headsets—the entry model costs about $400—aren’t in use six months after they are purchased, according to people familiar with the data."
LIke vR is the future of games right?
ok step away from the mirror. Gamecube was a failure. Sold more than the Quest which you say is a success. Get it now?
. Simple point. And Nintendo actually spent money making a lot of big games for it. Great games. Meta's made basically nothing.
The wife and I have a shared home office/storage room, and we oriented the desks closets etc to create as much space as possible (about 2x4 meters iirc), and games are decently playable with a decent room for movement. But most people don't really have the space for that.
Yes
ok step away from the mirror. Gamecube was a failure. Sold more than the Quest which you say is a success. Get it now?
lol the quote is from the same article. Just wasn't in the 1st or 2nd paragraph.
Yes it isn't the newest data pt now. Quest 3 seemed to do a million sales in its first ~9 months is the only thing I saw.
Anyway it's pretty painful is not taking off. IT's hanging on at best. Surviving. Being helped by a really wealthy company with a different business that has some interest in making sure they have a seat at the table in case VR (and metaverse) takes off. And whose CEO and the surrounding culture have Snow Crash on the brain.
IT was 5 years and Quest 2 was 3 years and Q2 continued to be widely available for a good year after Q3 came out. GC pretty much stopped selling after 3 years. The 5th year little came out. Xbox eventually stole all the 3rd parties. PS2 was of course huge.
IT was 5 years and Quest 2 was 3 years and Q2 continued to be on sale for a good year after Q3 came out. GC pretty much stopped selling after 3 years. The 5th year little came out. Xbox eventually stole all the 3rd parties. PS2 was of course huge.
Quest2 basically had no competition in the VR space and only can manage GC-like sales? And it took Meta losing seemingly tens of billions for that to happen. If Nintendo wanted to or could lose tens of billions back then...they could have greatly juiced GC sales.
Reality is no matter how much you love or hate VR it's not taking off at this point. It's hanging on at best.
Maybe in virtual reality the story seems different.
yes it did it out of novelty. That's why over half the units gather dust after 6 months.
So you're newest data point of a million is based on another debunked app download. It was an optional app you could download and supposedly a million people tried it. That's really your argument?
You trying to prove VR is dying based on old Quest 2 articles using app downloads as your reference while citing an optional download for Quest 3.
www.uploadvr.com
Break it down for me since meta is the only one involved here.
Exactly.
You have zero evidence!!! And that's not where the 1mn even came from if you're keeping score at home.This is your evidence of a million sales. Everyone saw it and laughed at but you're over here wanting to invade Iraq over it.
They have absolutely no idea. But hey 1 million according to you. lol. Makes alot of sense you would bring that up reading your other posts though.
Quest 3 Seems To Have Sold At Least 1 Million Units
Meta has sold at least 1 million Quest 3 headsets, a public datapoint reveals.
Biggest obstacle to VR is motion sickness, it limits the type of games people can use in VR.
VR was supposed to be the next evolution of gaming, being in the game was going to be revolutionary vs staring at a screen.
It was disappointing when I found out I couldn't walk/run my character around in VR without getting motioning sickness
Until they can trick our brains into not getting sick from playing something like Skyrim, or GTA in VR it may never see broad adoption.
And Valve likely has lost money on VR but writes it off as a store expense.
Never seen a guy so happy to have zero evidence. But the mountains of evidence supporting the reality he doesn't like are all wrong!!!
