Is the Valve Index really that unpopular? Or is it not included in the list for some reason?
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025
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in my opinion the market is too segmented. Facebook took Oculus and refocused them onto standalone vr instead of pcvr, and secluded away a bunch of releases as Oculus exclusives. psvr is in a similar state. there isn't enough vr software being made to support two separate walled gardens plus steamvr. in their rush to establish a vr monopoly, Facebook killed it. that's my opinion
I'll be hanging onto my vive cosmos for occasional games of beat saber but I think vr at this point has become an expensive novelty
but I think vr at this point has become an expensive novelty
Always has been. I went to demonstrations of this tech in the nineties when I was in college. It was going to be the next big thing. That never happened. It seems to come back every few years and then fade out again.
Yeah, when I had some extra money I considered getting VR but ultimately decided that it would be a waste & I’d only use it for 1-2 games then never tough it again.
that's terrifying. fuck Facebook. so mad that they took oculus from us
I don‘t know about that. That Oculus founder seems worse than Suckerberg somehow.
However I still think that somehow Facebook‘s dominance bottlenecks the VR industry right now. Their little data extractors are ironically too cheap for a healthy and vibrant VR economy, keeping competition and ideas out that the industry needs so desperately.
Plus the early adopters are not going to be lay-people, they are going to be tech enthusiests and people who know what they are shopping for. Having Meta and their data harvesting gadgets all over your home is something they would be very concious of, and in my case, avoid entirely for that reason.
The outcome, is dispite the lower cost to get a VR headset, a lot of people still havent entered the space yet, due to the security concerns and refusal to accept the data collection terms of more afordable devices.
Years after the initial releases VR still very much feels like a solution looking for a problem. As long as the industry doesn't figure out why it should even exist there will likely just be a slow decline and there is no chance for growth.
I respect palmer luckey for what he as done for VR and what he still does. Yea i'm not a fan of the defence contracts but even there he did some cool stuff.
I kinda find it shocking apple did have 9% of the new shipments at some point.
Sadly there isn't even any company I could see making a dent in this in the near future. The Pico did something but not enough and Valve's new headset will be too expensive to get a major %
I'm hoping the google XR OS will make the number of affordable headsets rise and new companies getting in the VR market.
if Valve can get it working with the steamdeck.... oh man that could be pretty awesome
The new headset will be standalone as far as we know so it'll run games on its own like the quest does!
oh even better