A mistake so big they made it twice. It’s amazing how you can throw like, infinite money at VR with the expectation that consumers will just wear these things on their faces all day long and still fail.
Valve has and will continue to succeed because they operate on the only genre suitable for VR: gaming.
I wish I spent more when I did… I bought the oculus rift, then some shit company bought it and tried to claim the hardware wasn’t mine, and tried to extort money from me. it sits on the floor doing nothing now. a reminder that corpos are never to be trusted
HI! HTC Vive OG owner here since 2018/19, over 100 VR titles, I know quite a few others with different headsets from Index to Meta to pico, also know at least 3 looking forward to Steam Frame. Tho it is still too niche and these stupid memory prices are going to hurt us bad. Under windows steamVR is great, under linux steamVR is good and getting better all the time, in the meantime there is WLX-Overlay.
Don’t get me wrong — I’d like to have a “monitor replacement HMD” myself, and it’s one reason that I’ve been watching the area. When things here there, I will probably get an HMD myself. And I think that there will come a day — unless some sort of brain-interface thing gets there first — where HMDs wind up at a monitor level. It’s just that in 2026, the hardware is still pretty limited for that application.
stupid mistake
a device made for gaming and porn should be able to do those things well and out of the box
A mistake so big they made it twice. It’s amazing how you can throw like, infinite money at VR with the expectation that consumers will just wear these things on their faces all day long and still fail.
Valve has and will continue to succeed because they operate on the only genre suitable for VR: gaming.
And porn, but mostly gaming.
Does Steam really succeed with VR though? I don’t know anyone with a VR headset and I know a lot of people who use Steam.
I wish I spent more when I did… I bought the oculus rift, then some shit company bought it and tried to claim the hardware wasn’t mine, and tried to extort money from me. it sits on the floor doing nothing now. a reminder that corpos are never to be trusted
It’s niche. Many people get motion sick in VR and having Meta as the only affordable option pretty much throttles VR.
HI! HTC Vive OG owner here since 2018/19, over 100 VR titles, I know quite a few others with different headsets from Index to Meta to pico, also know at least 3 looking forward to Steam Frame. Tho it is still too niche and these stupid memory prices are going to hurt us bad. Under windows steamVR is great, under linux steamVR is good and getting better all the time, in the meantime there is WLX-Overlay.
As much as anyone does. I’m sure it’s at least profitable for them.
Avp isn’t a consumer product. It’s going to be for enterprise work.
LOOOOOLOL what kind of “enterprise work”? Like Fuckerberg’s Metaverse?
No, replacing your laptop, monitors and desk space at work. The price point makes a lot more sense. And so does the hardware inside.
It makes absolutely no sense. And I’ve never seen any statements or marketing from Apple that makes such a suggestion.
It has a high angular resolution compared to some other HMDs, but it’s still not competitive with the angular resolution of traditional monitors.
HMDs in 2026, even at the upper end of the price range, aren’t there yet as superseding monitors.
EDIT:
https://kguttag.com/2023/08/05/apple-vision-pro-part-5a-why-monitor-replacement-is-ridiculous/
Key point is yet.
Interesting article! I’m not at all up to speed on the hardware specs vs the meta quest so I’m not sure how that translates.
Don’t get me wrong — I’d like to have a “monitor replacement HMD” myself, and it’s one reason that I’ve been watching the area. When things here there, I will probably get an HMD myself. And I think that there will come a day — unless some sort of brain-interface thing gets there first — where HMDs wind up at a monitor level. It’s just that in 2026, the hardware is still pretty limited for that application.
Have you tried the vision pro?
At a fraction of the price is probably implied, but I’d just throw it in there.