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It always feels like some form of VR tech comes out with some sort of fanfare and with a promise it will take over the world, but it never does.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm long-term bullish on VR, if you mean having a HMD designed to provide an immersive 3D environment. Like, I don't think that there are any fundamental problems with VR HMDs, and that one day, we will have HMDs that will probably replace monitors (unless some kind of brain-computer interface gets there first) and that those will expand do VR, if dedicated VR headsets don't get there first. Be more portable, private, and power-efficient than conventional displays.

But the hardware to reasonably replace monitors just isn't there today; the angular resolution isn't sufficient to compete with conventional monitors. And I just don't think that at current prices and with the current games out there, dedicated VR HMDs are going to take over.

I do agree with you that there have been several "waves" by companies trying to hit a critical mass that haven't hit that point, but I think that there will ultimately come a day where we do adopt HMDs and that even if it isn't the first application, VR will eventually be provided by those.

[–] Limerance@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

VR is expensive and bulky.