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AppleInsider reported Thursday that layoffs at Apple Vision Group were anticipated because the company’s expensive VR headset was not selling well since its launch
I mean, what did they expect? People have been trying to make VR a thing since the 80s.
Exactly.
Now would be the time for Valve to pick some of them up.
They did with that one woman.
So the software engineers who worked on the failed product get laid off, but not the people who decided to make the thing and directed its development. Cool cool cool
This wouldn’t happen (as easily) if they had a union.
Shit flows down, not up.
We used to say “shit rolls downhill” in the military
That’s a lot of shit if it’s rolling.
They are surprised VR isn’t really taking off with inflation through the roof huh?
Every few years for over half a century, someone decides that VR is finally going to be a big thing, spends a bucketload of cash on it, only to learn the exact same lesson: VR doesn’t actually solve any kind of practical problem anyone ever had, but it does create a whole bunch of new ones.
Fundamentally they believe 3D will take off. Recall the 3D tv hype?
People don’t want any of that.
I don’t recall any hype around it at all except that it was a thing that companies made. Most of them require glasses so I really don’t understand how they thought that would ever catch on.
I do want 3D, but the implementations just have too many drawbacks.
If the nearest store still has one, do a demo of it. It is quite impressive. You can see where they’re trying to get ready for whatever comes after smartphones
It does allow for some awesome games though.
Which one? Beat saber or beat saber?
You’d think, and yet all the gamers I know who own a headset has it gathering dust on the shelf.
You’re not wrong, and I’m included in that because I’m a dumbass who bought an Oculus Rift (i.e. not a Vive) some 6 years ago or so, and I’ve since gone 100% Linux. But man was it a magical upgrade for my sim racing setup. In many ways better than a triple screen setup, but occupies less space.
My headset was extremely immersive for DCS and IL-2, but I could never use the keyboard well enough with it on.
It’s pretty great for socializing at home, so if someome can’t get out they can still have something similar avaliable. Otherwise there isn’t really a killer feature.
See that’s the thing, it sounds like it should be good for that, but really it doesn’t facilitate any kind of social interaction you weren’t able to get from your PC, and at the same time makes a bunch of other stuff more awkward.
It’s pretty great for socializing at home, so if someome can’t get out they can still have something similar avaliable. Otherwise there isn’t really a killer feature.
