Well it's being supported for once. It's also more important now that visuals have caught up. It will also in the near future lead to the perfection of 3D audio as personalized HRTFs and realistic raytraced propagation is cracked, and finally it's use in VR is profoundly important for total immersion. Take the 3D audio out of Alyx and it will lose a ton of impact if not be outright disturbing for users.

Either a Resistance or Socom remake. PSVR2 exclusive.

Cool. Hope it's good.

Well keep in mind that video is their proprietary implementation. Sony will have their own implementation, which could vary greatly or be similar. Only people that have used PS5 will be able to tell us, because for some reason, PS5's 3D audio isn't captured on video.

So we still need a confirmation on how good PS5's 3D audio is.

How is the 3D audio? Is it comparable to this?

Lets look at Oculus as an example. Oculus Rift -> Oculus Go -> Oculus Quest -> Oculus Quest 2.

Is that 4 generations? No.

Oculus Go is a lesser experience, a side thing. The impulse buy price-wise option.

Oculus Rift -> Oculus Quest is a step back and a step forward. It's not the same thing as a generational leap.

Oculus Quest 1 -> Oculus Quest 2 is a great leap in power, but doesn't really do anything else to mature the tech. Those advancements I mentioned earlier will start trickling in from Quest 3 or 4 onwards depending on how fast they release. A generational leap needs to be truly noticeable.

VR isn't mature just because it's had 4 Oculus headsets, 3 Vive headsets and so on. A technology is only mature if it has advanced enough to provide a standardized pipeline for all future headsets, one that no longer needs to deviate much. Yet VR is going to deviate a lot, because eye-tracking alone is a monumental jump, as are haptics, facial tracking, new display systems etc.

Why are phones mature? Because a few years after the iPhone released, a standard was reached and there wasn't much left for phones to improve on in any drastically different form.

People are not interested in VR for the same reasons they aren't interested in any early technology. The problem is you can't see just how early it is. Only when VR is mature can people make a decision as a society and say VR yay or nay, because it's never going to die out and keep being developed, so that decision is inevitable, and it's pretty easy to see which way it will swing. (In VR's favor)

Thanks for proving my point. Gaming was at such an early stage back then, the same way VR is today. That's exactly why it's a good comparison point instead of comparing Alyx sales to Animal Crossing.

Sure sure. So what are the names for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gen headsets? Are arcade machines actually consoles too? Does that mean PS5 is actually a 10th or 11th gen console? Do dev kits count too? So maybe PS5 is actually gen 15?

VR is not mature technology. It's low resolution, low field of view, bulky, still mostly uses flawed fresnel lenses, has no HDR, has no eye tracking, body tracking, facial tracking, a lack of haptics, no solve for the vergence accommodation conflict, refresh rates still aren't high enough, there is no foveated rendering, volumetric video is barely ready, and the obvious killer apps for general usage haven't been utilized properly yet due to lack of the aforementioned hardware advances.

Saying VR will always be like racing chairs and cockpits is hilarious, and puts you in the same pool of people that thought consoles or PCs were a fad. It's just backwards thinking with no basis behind it. You think VR is just some ultra-expensive gaming peripheral? Think again.

Yes, a resounding success in the sense that it sold 2 million units in it's first year. Half Life hasn't had a full year yet, and while I don't believe it will reach 2 million that fast, I wouldn't be surprised to see it at 1.5 million. Good considering that it's more expensive and harder to setup than an Atari 2600 even adjusted for inflation.

You throw out words and you don't even know what they mean, Dzimm. Not a good look, Dzimm.

Half Life didn't sell millions of copies simply because VR is in it's early stages; the same way that Space Invaders did not sell gangbusters at launch despite being considered a killer app at launch.

Most people who play the game love it and find it anything but a gimmick.

The fact is that nobody outside of a small but fiercely loyal customer base cares about [insert any succesful technology] in it's early days. Phones, computers, consoles, tablets, TVs, you name it. Most people didn't care about them. Most people thought they were fads. Most people were wrong about them.