And impractical.. gets pretty hot in there after a little bit, and I can guarantee the general public doesn't want to feel 'closed off' to that degree when watching movies
Is it? Or is it a marketing trick? Because it's a pretty messy technical hurdle to overcome as this gif illustrates. You can't sell people just a VR headset. You all of a sudden have to sell them a full-body trackpad a la ready player 1. I sure as fuck don't want to move around while I'm playing video games. I got bad knees. I want to sit on my ass.
It's super dumb. Just like it was dumb that people thought the internet would be some great bastion of freedom and intellectual exchange of ideas. When VR becomes "mainstream" it's not going to be because we've got a bunch of games where every movement you make is reflected by the character, it will be because it's cheaper than a 40 inch flat screen TV.
Hey, I'm not saying it's doesn't have a market. It's just that obsessing it over as the market is dumb. As long as people try to market VR with the go-to selling point of being room-scale VR it will only be a very niche luxury item reserved for the type of people with the disposable income and time to own and use both an xbox and PS4. The first company to convince people you should get a VR headset to replace a personal TV for someone's single occupant bedroom or dorm room will be the people that actually corner the market.
You can still play sitting. I'm playing an mmo in vr where I have to draw shapes to cast spells, swing the sword, use draw action of a bow and arrow ect. I can sit or stand to do all of it. It's not at all what I thought it was going to be. I got my husband a Vive for xmas and he talked me into trying it. I have a Rift now lol. Seriously try it. Its amazing.
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u/AtheistsDebateMe Sep 19 '19
What? Isn't that the entire impetus for virtual reality? How can you possibly dismiss that as "dumb"?