@darthbuzzard: it's quite telling when i go to a cinema and now find the screen to be relatively "small" lol (altho in reality of course the VR is the small screen... Great tech tho means no eye strain, altho im finding the quantity of time im wearing it is messing with my forehead a bit sry if too much detail haha. My unit was bought 2nd hand and can tend to cut out quite often when i move too much, any ideas on whats causing that are welcome. Wish id bought it new tbh.)

Edit: in defense of tvs, vr will never have as good resolution bc the screen is so much smaller. I find it a very worthwhile tradeoff, and any game with text too small to read in the maximum size setting just has bad UI in my opinion (the worst example being boring xcom clone Phantom Doctrine which only shows one key number in a size and colour scheme unreadable on vr. Xcom itself never has any such issues).

The only way VR can seriously be the future for gaming is if its literally the console IMHO... As a additional piece of hardware it limits the audience and not to mention the amount of interest big developers will have towards it.

The only other way would be WHEN consoles are nothing more than APPS on your TV and are subscription based cloud powered services only then VR would be more appealing to the mass public as they didn't have to buy a console so the peripheral would then be easier on the wallet and to justify.

That's just how I see it.

@darthbuzzard: it's quite telling when i go to a cinema and now find the screen to be relatively "small" lol (altho in reality of course the VR is the small screen... Great tech tho means no eye strain, altho im finding the quantity of time im wearing it is messing with my forehead a bit sry if too much detail haha. My unit was bought 2nd hand and can tend to cut out quite often when i move too much, any ideas on whats causing that are welcome. Wish id bought it new tbh.)

I just use it for "cinema mode" as an alternative to a tv, so im all set whatever the future may hold! ;D

Probably, but I expect it will always be an expensive niche product. Most people, including gamers, simply have no interest in it.

Case in point, here are the latest usage statistics for X-Plane 11:

http://dashboard.x-plane.com/

Flight simulation is, in my opinion, the ideal use case for VR. It is the sort of specialized tech that flight sim geeks should love, but as of this post, only 2.06% of X-Plane users have tried VR!

That articial shortage lol.

Anyhow for real though, I am very positive about VR but I dont see the hype of Oculus Quest anywhere. Am I in the wrong side of the world or what?

A new half life but without showing any trailers or screenshots?

Plus all the writers left so Valve won't make anymore singleplayer games.

I thought Epic exclusives would be a thing of 2019, but nah, they are taking this into 2020 as well.

On one hand I like what Valve is doing: they still have the best place to buy games, they have the steam workshop, they don't spend silly money on buying up exclusives.

On the other hand I hate Valve for not creating games anymore.

@darthbuzzard: Yes I like popular things. Cars, planes, cell phones, social media. You know things that are useful and last the test time. Not things like 3d, VR, and motion controls.