• Gigan@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I don’t think the technology is there yet. As long as people need to wear big bulky goggles and headsets it’s not going to take off. Make something that’s about as cumbersome as sunglasses and less than $1000 and there might be mass adoption.

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      3 months ago

      VR is already great today, and lots of us are enjoying it. I know several people with VR systems.

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      3 months ago

      March 2023 they sold 20M Quests. Half as many as PS5. That counts as “taken off” in my book.

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        3 months ago

        Daily active users are a much better indicator of success.

        Halo infinite had a peak player count if 272,000. Now it sees DAU of only 3,000

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        3 months ago

        Wow, I’m shocked it’s that high. I’ve never heard of someone using one.

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          3 months ago

          Everyone in my family has one. We play ping pong. It’s cool, you feel like you’re in the room with someone even when they are many miles away.

          Having said that, I believe most of the users are minors. Whenever I log into a multilayer game, there are children taking.

          Besides ping pong, there’s Best Saber and 3d jigsaw puzzles. Outside of that, I haven’t really had much fun outside of occasional shooting / archery.

          It sucks that it’s owned by Facebook of course. I deleted my Facebook over 10 years ago now. I had to set it up with my girlfriend’s Facebook account.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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      3 months ago

      I agree that the tech isn’t there, but unless we figure out some new physics it’s going to be impossible to put enough battery, computing power, and cooling capacity in something the size of sunglasses. So the tech for VR like we really want is at least 20 years away, if not more.