I hope we get a new VR headset soon...

[Evil Ninetales]

I really want to buy a new VR headset ( Currently have the HTC VIVE )

The issue is the only other good "high end" VR headset is the index and it's like 5 years old now.

You'd think with how invested and interested valve are with VR that they'd have brought a new one out by now.

I don't want to drop money on the index if a year later we have a new one.

[Ogami]

I think the main problem is how much of a niche market VR still is.
According to the latest Steam hardware yearly survey less then 1.5% of Steam users use a VR headset.
Thats actually DOWN from a year ago where it was at 1.7%.

I bought one years ago, used it for a few months, thought " yeah that neat" and then put on a shelf where it collected dust for the next 2 years before i sold it to a friend for cheap.
VR is just "not there" yet. Its still too clumsy and bothersome to wear those headsets, not even considering all the space you need for many games.
I think VR will only take off when the tech is so good that you can fit everything into a sunglasses sized device.
Then VR will explode. Till then its a very small niche on the PC market.

Also META is controlling the market nearly effortlessly with around 70% of headsets being META ones. So there is even less reason for other companies to make headsets with that small a market.

[LT. Thing]

I want it to be like AR glasses that would be AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Evil Ninetales]

I'm not personally interested in a headset that works standalone as I'll never be using it like that.

It will always be plugged into my desktop PC or laptop.

I'm also not interested in having a facebook account for it ...

[Eagle_of_Fire]

That's funny because just two days ago I was talking with someone at my job, telling them how much of a fad VR is and is going to keep being until it die. And that's indeed what seem to be happening right now as it is slowly dying off.

If anything I personally don't want resources to be drawn into that field. Simply because it steal time and resources from actual game making. If it was its own niche thing then that would be something else but I don't know how many times in the past few years I've seen some devs deciding to suddenly "adapt" their game for VR... Time and effort which could have been used to actually work on and improve their game instead. Or work on a sequel.

So... Yeah.

[Knee]

Unless Valve’s next game is VR, I don’t see them caring about it very much. No one is really pushing VR these days with one exception being Meta Quest 3.

[Vamp]

Gaben needs to realize that their headsets just look horrible, he needs to contact Sega and buy their Sega VR headset design and release it looking like that.

[Zefar]

The current VR headset still offer something that normal gaming can never offer. The full immersion into a game.

Half-Life Alyx is an amazing experience and easily becomes the best Half-Life game to date. I played the originals ones on release too btw.

I'm pretty sure VR is here to stay and for those who wish it all to fit into some sunglasses? Yeah that tech is not here and not within the next decade.

I bought my HTC Vive 2016 and VR is still alive today.

[Soren]

Price of a new headset is about to go up 25% anyway. Apparently America will get a blanket tariff of 25%. Sucks to suck guys. But if I were Valve, I'd wait the 4 years and just not release hardware in that climate. It's going to be rough for the Nintendo Switch 2 with the 25% price increase as well. Heck, all consoles and most PC parts are going to be 25% more expensive from my understanding of the tariff.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The "Deckard" is still in production.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Originally posted by Zefar:

The current VR headset still offer something that normal gaming can never offer. The full immersion into a game.

I'm sorry to tell you that vision is only one sense in our arsenal. I don't need to have that one sense being overwhelmed by stimulus to be immersed into a story or a game I'm playing. For that I use my imagination.

Something that, very sadly, the generations after mine seem to have slowly but surely forgotten. Sometimes being able to remember a time when technology was not even part of our life at all is both a blessing and a curse.