I think the situation isn’t so much with VR and its offerings (Lucky (Oculus lead) being a lunatic doesn’t help), rather, the economic situation that people are in.
People can barely afford to house themselves, let alone have a spare room that’s empty to use as a holodeck.
And since most people seem to be renting, they’re hardly going to be able to drill holes in the wall to put up cameras for VR
Nah that’s not true, maybe for some people. GPUs are selling like hotcakes as are processors. Consumers are buying gaming hardware like it’s going out of style. I think that may be the case for younger gamers.
I don’t think it’s gamers driving those hardware sales - GPU supply has been strained for over a decade due to their non-gaming uses. The introduction of cryptocurrency lead to all the high-end cards being snatched up by mining operations and scalpers, then right as crypto finally started dying down, the AI boom hit.
Anecdotally I know a ton of gamers going with low- and mid-tier GPUs like the 3060/4060 because crypto/AI speculators and scalpers have driven up the prices of the high-end cards beyond the budgets of normal people (and that’s when there are even any cards in stock).
It’s not even necessarily that people can’t afford the space, it’s just that the space is being required in the first place. Being able to afford it is just one facet of why I’m not setting aside a whole room for VR.
I think the situation isn’t so much with VR and its offerings (Lucky (Oculus lead) being a lunatic doesn’t help), rather, the economic situation that people are in.
People can barely afford to house themselves, let alone have a spare room that’s empty to use as a holodeck.
And since most people seem to be renting, they’re hardly going to be able to drill holes in the wall to put up cameras for VR
Nah that’s not true, maybe for some people. GPUs are selling like hotcakes as are processors. Consumers are buying gaming hardware like it’s going out of style. I think that may be the case for younger gamers.
I don’t think it’s gamers driving those hardware sales - GPU supply has been strained for over a decade due to their non-gaming uses. The introduction of cryptocurrency lead to all the high-end cards being snatched up by mining operations and scalpers, then right as crypto finally started dying down, the AI boom hit.
Anecdotally I know a ton of gamers going with low- and mid-tier GPUs like the 3060/4060 because crypto/AI speculators and scalpers have driven up the prices of the high-end cards beyond the budgets of normal people (and that’s when there are even any cards in stock).
a gpu is a one time purchase of a luxury good. a house is 100 times more expensive than a gpu
*If you’re lucky
It’s not even necessarily that people can’t afford the space, it’s just that the space is being required in the first place. Being able to afford it is just one facet of why I’m not setting aside a whole room for VR.