Opinion: VR Isn't a Fad Anymore, It Really Is the Future
https://www.reviewgeek.com/93593/vr-isnt-a-fad-anymore-it-really-is-the-future/#autotoc_anchor_4Previously, VR formed the backbone of movies like The Matrix and Total Recall and provided a space-saving entertainment option for more affluent sims. However, in reality, it always fell a bit flat. Instead of the spy-themed holidays on Mars you got with Total Recall, we were instead treated to a weird table-mounted effort by Nintendo.
But things have changed, technology has advanced, and it’s all very different this time around. As actual reality has crumbled slightly over the last couple of years, VR has experienced an unprecedented surge. Headset sales are through the roof, with some models hitting figures that took years in mere months. New uses are being found, some of which are replacing real-world functions that stopped during the pandemic—and major companies are taking note. The most popular headsets even look like the ones your sims have been ducking and diving in for years.
The strong future of VR comes down to a variety of factors, like better accessibility, better games, deeper immersion, uses outside of gaming, and backing from major players.
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The author says it's the future. I won't buy into it until: 1- there truly is a fantastic wireless headset that is comfortable for long periods of time and 2- a game or application that works really well with it and 3- a decent price point. Until then, I'll let people with extra money experiment.
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It's reasonably comfortable, and I played it wirelessly (although that was a bit of a hack, it's not hard to implement and I think will soon be officially supported if it's not already). Game as a whole worked pretty damn well, and it was awesome I should add 
It did require also having a reasonably beefy PC to actually run the game and transmit it to the headset. I was playing it at the highest settings, however, and one only needs about a $150 GPU to play it at medium, and a basic i5 or Ryzen 3000 series is plenty of CPU grunt.
Probably still a bit away from having a headset that can support really life-like graphics in a stand-alone (no PC needed) format, however, but there's some decent-looking games out that can run on the Quest/Quest 2 alone.
Once they start putting out that games that fully take advantage of Quest 2's greater power, we'll get stand-alone games that look better. Everything being made now still supports (and looks the same) on Quest 1, which is handicapping the newer unit a bit.
