I would suspect the market slowdown in VR purchases might be pushing some publishers to spend less money on it than when the Oculus Rift and Valve Index were fresh and new. Meta’s relative dominance of the arena and it’s tightly closed systems are also impacted by people who don’t want to give money to Meta. If the Steam Frame is successful, we might see a turnaround on that, but currently I think the VR market has been stagnating a little under Meta’s dominance. Zuckerberg abandoning the Metaverse entirely also is evidence of a market that exists but isn’t large enough for most publishers to justify the extra costs to include VR support when they won’t sell enough copies to offset those costs.
It is still a tiny niche, clearly, and devs would have to carefully evaluate the benefits/costs of developing for it.
But I consider Zuckerberg abandoning the metaverse only an evidence of nobody giving a fuck about his metaverse. Including most people who got a quest.
So sad to hear no VR support. That’s what made the original so amazing for me
I would suspect the market slowdown in VR purchases might be pushing some publishers to spend less money on it than when the Oculus Rift and Valve Index were fresh and new. Meta’s relative dominance of the arena and it’s tightly closed systems are also impacted by people who don’t want to give money to Meta. If the Steam Frame is successful, we might see a turnaround on that, but currently I think the VR market has been stagnating a little under Meta’s dominance. Zuckerberg abandoning the Metaverse entirely also is evidence of a market that exists but isn’t large enough for most publishers to justify the extra costs to include VR support when they won’t sell enough copies to offset those costs.
It is still a tiny niche, clearly, and devs would have to carefully evaluate the benefits/costs of developing for it.
But I consider Zuckerberg abandoning the metaverse only an evidence of nobody giving a fuck about his metaverse. Including most people who got a quest.