Other than DCS, Skyrim, and that one Star Wars game at Dave and Buster's where you duel Darth Vader, I don't see a lot that sings to me just yet. Granted, I could easily get 2,000 hours out of DCS over the span of a decade just flying every third and fourth generation fighter jet ever made.
Maybe VR doesn't need that many games because the small handful of good ones have so much depth and replay value. I guess I just talked myself into a $700 VR kit and possibly a $700 GPU upgrade, depending on whether or not my RTX 3060 is up to task.
Not sure what vr kit you're looking at, but if it's a 4k headset to push at 90fps you'll want something more like a 3080 or 4070. But if it's lower resolution it won't need quite so much power.
Has it though? And what "market" are you referring to here?
Fully agreed that if you want 100% full 6DOF immersion - go and pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars to wear a heavy and cumbersome headset on your head. We're not disputing that or thinking of competing with that.
What we're saying is that there may be a much larger market consisting of people who are not ready to commit to pay so much money to wear something that will give them motion sickness after 10 minutes.
If you're developing a VR game your market consists of 50 million people around the world who owns a VR headset. That's great. But since you already built the VR world in 3D, you could also open up the market to billions of people who want to play your game but on their own devices.
Admittedly, it won't be the same experience, but it could be a "midpoint". Not everyone can afford and is willing to pay for a VR headset.
Other than DCS, Skyrim, and that one Star Wars game at Dave and Buster's where you duel Darth Vader, I don't see a lot that sings to me just yet. Granted, I could easily get 2,000 hours out of DCS over the span of a decade just flying every third and fourth generation fighter jet ever made.
Maybe VR doesn't need that many games because the small handful of good ones have so much depth and replay value. I guess I just talked myself into a $700 VR kit and possibly a $700 GPU upgrade, depending on whether or not my RTX 3060 is up to task.
Not sure what vr kit you're looking at, but if it's a 4k headset to push at 90fps you'll want something more like a 3080 or 4070. But if it's lower resolution it won't need quite so much power.
Has it though? And what "market" are you referring to here?
Fully agreed that if you want 100% full 6DOF immersion - go and pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars to wear a heavy and cumbersome headset on your head. We're not disputing that or thinking of competing with that.
What we're saying is that there may be a much larger market consisting of people who are not ready to commit to pay so much money to wear something that will give them motion sickness after 10 minutes.
If you're developing a VR game your market consists of 50 million people around the world who owns a VR headset. That's great. But since you already built the VR world in 3D, you could also open up the market to billions of people who want to play your game but on their own devices.
Admittedly, it won't be the same experience, but it could be a "midpoint". Not everyone can afford and is willing to pay for a VR headset.