I was really into VR in the beginning. My friend got the occulus DK1 and my mind was blown. I got a DK2 which ironically felt less immersive since the field of view was smaller but still very impressive.
I demoed it to a lot of my friends and everyone was very impressed but no one ever asked to go back. When I realized this knew there was a problem and that when I started doubting the adoption of VR.
Once Meta/Facebook bought occulus, I full checked out and never bought another VR head set ever again.
I still managed to make a VR version of one of my games before fully quitting. I don’t know what it would take for me to care about VR again.
I'm the opposite. I backed the DK1 but it was unusable to me. Way too nauseating. The high persistence tablet display was horrible, the pixels were so massive.
Then when Facebook took them over they finally had the chance to buy first class custom made components instead of going for scraps from the mobile industry. I don't like Facebook/meta either but their cash was desperately needed.
I also really appreciated the gift of the Rift consumer version, they were under no obligation to do that.
I thought sim racing with VR was one of the coolest gaming experience I’ve ever had. But once I got busy and tried to go back to it while not having a dedicated setup, it seemed like a real PITA and I just stopped doing it. The heat, weight, variable motion sickness, and cable madness didn’t seem worth it.
A lot of these things are much better on later models. No more cables even with pcvr. Quest 3 is thinner. The heat will probably stay but personally I don't notice it so much. I don't VR in summer but that's because it gets so hot here that just walking around is enough to make me sweat profusely.
I demoed it to a lot of my friends and everyone was very impressed but no one ever asked to go back. When I realized this knew there was a problem and that when I started doubting the adoption of VR.
Once Meta/Facebook bought occulus, I full checked out and never bought another VR head set ever again.
I still managed to make a VR version of one of my games before fully quitting. I don’t know what it would take for me to care about VR again.