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this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2024
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The technology for VR is there but the business landscape just isn't. For VR to take off, there'd have to be a cheap (like game console price) VR set that works for most people, so game developers making games for them can sell to more than a handful of tech hobbyists. But all the tech companies want to sell premium VR sets because that's where they make money.
The only ways I see for VR to become a thing are either:
Well VR also has the multichannel audio/5.1 problem of: not everyone wants to make space for all that, and also yeah shit got more expensive instead of less. Acer AH101 was like $200 what happened to that?