Really can't understate how much it sucks Facebook bought all the VR game studios and made all VR games Quest exclusive This is pretty anti-competitive behavior but typical for US - ThreadSky

spaceprez.bsky.social • 159 days ago

Really can't understate how much it sucks Facebook bought all the VR game studios and made all VR games Quest exclusive

This is pretty anti-competitive behavior but typical for US

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ragunaraiden.bsky.social•159 days ago

Definitely doesn't help that the Quest version of a lot of apps are also just... crazy neutered.

VR Chat? Locks out a ton of custom options and avatars, keeping you locked to pre-approved ones (unless you mod via SideQuest, but the average consumer won't/can't).

Shit sucks.

spaceprez.bsky.social•159 days ago

Yep, ends up running VR on a cellphone is a pretty poor experience

But they prefer it because they can lock everything exclusive, where anything on Oculus Desktop can be ported to SteamVR easily.

So now everything that could be Oculus + Quest is just Quest

It suuuucks

ragunaraiden.bsky.social•159 days ago

I grabbed the ol' Quest 2 back in the day because I was like "Oh, that'll be convenient for stuff like Beat Saber and Pistol Whip on a whim, cool!"

And now I... use it occasionally for Beat Saber and Pistol Whip. Otherwise it's a really inconvenient paperweight. :|

Thanks, Zucc. Thanks.

joemag.games•159 days ago

I was a Vive fanboy during the first VR platform wars and we all saw this coming.

warlockofwires.bsky.social•158 days ago

From a engineering standpoint my gaming computer is an order of magnitude more powerful than the quest 2's arm processor..

Why can't those games be also ran on pcvr. This is a boardroom problem not an engineering problem. And that pisses me off

jennatalia.bsky.social•158 days ago

They pretty much killed VR because big surprise, nobody wants to do fucking office meetings in VR.

paintedsky.ca•159 days ago

remember, it's only a monopoly if the US federal government files an antitrust lawsuit against you and you lose. Up until then? Shit's open season

(hopefully the sarcasm is evident, capitalism sucks ass)

jyoungman.bsky.social•159 days ago

Self-defeating, too. I can't be the only person who won't be interested in buying a headset until it's a generic output device for all VR content, like a monitor is now.

spaceprez.bsky.social•159 days ago

Its extremely self-defeating. We're at a chicken and egg problem with VR, there's not enough apps to get people to buy a headset, but you can't develop more apps if there's no audience of people with headsets to sell them to.

They're making that WORSE!

fennit.bsky.social•159 days ago

VR was so exciting 4 years ago. Playing Jet Island, Alyx and Pavlov. As a game tool, as a multiplayer experience it was unparalleled and such fertile ground.

The quest divide really hurt splitting devlopment, unless Valve shows new hardware/software I think it's going to slowly die as a platform.

fennit.bsky.social•159 days ago

I recently bought a Quest 3 and it's like, with Wifi 6E wireless VR is pretty much there. But there's nothing that new really pushing the field like 3-4 years ago.

Seem most devs dipped a toe, got burned, so now it's all cartoony puzzle rooms and shooting/slashing whilst PCVR is cockpit simulators.

nostalgiohn.bsky.social•159 days ago

Just give me VR games that work on my Index without any loopholes to go through dammit smh

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