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As someone who has tried VR i gotta say it WILL have a place in gaming, it wont replace traditional gaming but it will have a place for sure, i tried a "shitty" roller coaster demo on an early version of the oculus rift and even though the graphics werent great and it wasnt a final version of the Oculus it still fooled me into believing i was in the roller coaster and i honestly felt that i needed to grab on to something or i would fall off from it, i was loosing my orientation (even knowing that it wasnt real) because thats how much you get "in there", and i really needed to grab something or i would end up falling on my back (since i was standing while i tried the demo).

VR will at least have a place for horror games and racing games that are willing to take it to the "next level".

And funny enough everyone who ive seen has tried VR has come off with the same mentality that it will have a place in gaming for sure, even people who hated the idea and thought it wouldnt work came out of the experience pleasently surprised and just like me they believe it will have its market, but of course it wont replace traditional gaming.



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SvennoJ said:
Mr_No said:

I kinda have to agree with him. VR mustn't be something that defines how every game in the future should be or how it should play. I wouldn't mind for it to be a complement, since VR running amok as the only way to play a game can't be good for the industry.

Yep it's not all or nothing. There is a lot of space between the future of gaming and a gimmick.
Mobile phone games, once tauted as the future of gaming (actually still are) are happily co-existing with console games.
VR games can co-exist fine with family room friendly gaming.

This.

I expect VR to have a similar place in the market to racing wheels. Most major games won't require VR, but will support it and be a better experience with VR. Most fully VR games will be indie titles I think.



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Me neither. Don't really understand the hype around VR.



If that happened I would go full pc gaming (assuming traditional consoles disappear). VR is not my thing, really



PxlStorm said:
Me neither. Don't really understand the hype around VR.


Have you tried it yet? If not, I really recomend doing so, it's something else.



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Even if it's not going to be, at least Xbox isn't "the future of gaming".



Hunting Season is done...

Vr?? Where ?? I just see a helmet.



My cardboad kit is on the way! can't wait to try it out and decide for myself! (I may have to upgrade my phone now)...

However, he may be partially right, VR may be good for simpler, short, yet intense experiences or meditation like software... the common thing people who played around with it a lot seems to say is that they would not use these headsets for long periods of time, or that it's so different than a "regular" game that they do not see how it would integrate...

My opinion, with only about 5 minutes of use of an Oculus rift model 1 is that if you give me a regular controller and the head tracking is used to give me some partial control over the camera in a regular game I will LOVE it, imagine being INSIDE a car and being able to look around naturally while you drive, it look around in an FPS while walking(all other controls being adjusted to this).



I do want a VR headset one day for some racing sim games. But most games I will not see the point of unless it gets to a Sword Art Online type of level.



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VR is going to flop