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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Another VR tech demo fail...

we don't have hardware issue here, we got a software issue

With every fucking clown mega corp looking to corner the market, no progress made... I am sorry this is not a cell phone, it won't pop like that.

Open source it, create standards and inter operability. Until that is done, I am not buying anymore of shiti hardware demos.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I don't think it is even a software issue. The problem is the use case. The VR market just isn't that useful outside of gaming and even within gaming, it isn't worth it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think we just have not received the APP/GAME to make the platform viable.

You could be right, the format just aint no good no matter how good of game/app it is.

Or maybe devs are working too much to port normal game into VR instead of taking VR centric approach.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it's the use case. Qualcomm had smartphones in the 80s, General Magic had the smartphone in the 90s, but it took more than another decade to actually combine phone and browser into the right form factor and fast enough mobile connection and a world wide web to make it work.

For AR there were moments too. Niantic with global positioning, 5G with fast mobile internet, but that was not enough.

Input method isn't clear yet (Apple may have solved it with gaze-pinch), form factor not consumer market ready. Actual use case that is worth the price point? Nah

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