I voted the HTC vive option as its the closest...but i have an index.
It's pretty cool but it really does need a killer app. No one has really nailed VR yet..i'm not really sure what form that would take even. It's also a bit limited by the squishy human wearing the headset :P.
but games wise its mostly trying to bolt existing game design thinking to a very very different way to play games. it still feels very experimental.
but it is very immersive. I mean we all laugh at seeing people fall over thinking there is a table to lean on but its easy to forget after a while that what you are seeing is not there. even with pretty basic graphics it really does suck you in. Even something like metroid prime, even with its GC visuals (just scaled up and optimised for VR to clear up the image) would be amazing in VR.
The hardware does need work too. On the index the headset is nice but the Finger tracking on the knuckles controllers lacks finesse. You can grab things and pick up things (and flip people off of course :P) but you couldn't type on a virtual keyboard for example...at least not naturally.Throwing things is also very hit/miss (though this could be a developer implementation problem).
Wireless across the board really needs to become a thing too. The quest is a great idea but mobile hardware is still going to lack the sheer grunt needed to do VR well. As an entry point for VR the quest is and will be a great setup but VR does benefit from a higher refresh rate and higher res screens so the mobile hardware will be on the back foot a bit. So i think being wirelessly tethered to a base stations (whether it be a console or PC) is the way to go. The wire is a pain. no getting around it.
I don't see VR as a replacement for big screen gaming or handheld gaming or anything but just another pillar. it just offers a very different and very immersive way to play games. There are many games where i think "Why would i ever play this in VR?" (Like Diablo or warhammer total war) and there are others where i think "HOLY CRAP I WANT THIS IN VR!" like prime or F1.
Then there is the undiscovered. What only makes sense in VR?
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