ylai@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoMeta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made checks figures $440 million in returnwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
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minus-squareGigan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoI 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.
minus-squareRaoulDook@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoVR is already great today, and lots of us are enjoying it. I know several people with VR systems.
minus-squareSebKra@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoMarch 2023 they sold 20M Quests. Half as many as PS5. That counts as “taken off” in my book.
minus-squareGigan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoWow, I’m shocked it’s that high. I’ve never heard of someone using one.
minus-squarekava@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoEveryone 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.
minus-squareCrashumbc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoI play putt-putt with my sister and we’re both in our fifties.
minus-squareEntropywins@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoI bought vr for simracing…I use vr for Beat Saber
minus-squareGigan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months ago Everyone in my family has one. We play ping pong. This reads like a joke. 50 years of technological development and people are just playing hi-tech pong.
minus-squareembed_me@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoWith people* they aren’t physically near to I think that’s the important part
minus-squaren3m37h@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoDaily 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
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.
VR is already great today, and lots of us are enjoying it. I know several people with VR systems.
March 2023 they sold 20M Quests. Half as many as PS5. That counts as “taken off” in my book.
Wow, I’m shocked it’s that high. I’ve never heard of someone using one.
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.
I play putt-putt with my sister and we’re both in our fifties.
I bought vr for simracing…I use vr for Beat Saber
This reads like a joke. 50 years of technological development and people are just playing hi-tech pong.
With people* they aren’t physically near to
I think that’s the important part
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