One of the biggest barriers to entry for VR in its current format is that the best experiences often require a significant play area, and your average gamer doesn’t own property with large, open spaces.
I’ve got a relatively large living room myself, but even there, I’m having to spend time moving furniture around to maximise the play area, and that just lend itself to a pick-up-and-play scenario.
I mean, yeah, VR treadmills exist, but even there, they take up a significant amount of space and require a degree of setup that’s significantly more than just turning on a console or launching a game from your desktop.
Since moving to Linux, which my original Oculus Rift doesn’t support, it’s just been gathering dust.
Don’t get me wrong, Superhot VR and Alyx are two of the most astonishing gaming experiences I’ve ever had (along with that first moment you step outside of the station into open space in Lone Echo).
But with there being no Linux compatible, wireless alternative to Meta’s headsets yet, and GPUs still being stupidly expensive, restricting the quality of any experience I’m likely to have in VR, the attractiveness of the format has dropped off of a cliff for me.
That and Dwarf Fortress has just released on Steam and is likely to take over all of my gaming time for the foreseeable future.
