The big anniversary sale started on psvr games.
There are tons of great titles on sale, unfortunately they all say purchased where the price would be :)

Is paranormal activity any good? And can you play it with DS4, smooth movement and rotation?

Movement options really need to be advertised on the game sale page. I still wanted to get Obduction, which is on sale and finally got the promised VR patch. However after looking into it, it requires move (ugh), has snap rotation (yuck) and only supports teleportation (why oh why). Then they dare to advertise it as Obduction is to VR as what Myst was for PC. Emm no, it doesn't even have any pro enhancements. Has anyone played it? Is it still playable and worth it with teleportation?

All the stuff I'm really interested in is in the pre-order section doh. Borderlands VR should be great, they surely can't limit that to teleportation...

Firewall zero hour is on sale as well. Might be fun with the aim controller. However I still have enough to catch up on anyway before RDR2 takes over my time.

I really don't need to buy any more games right now.

I really don't.

*Goes to the sale*

I purchased a PS VR last year for some gaming and 3D blu-rays. While I have not used it in a while (though that is mostly due to the fact that I have not had the time), I do enjoy my time with it. I love watching 3D movies on it, and the Sony Playroom VR showed me that there is lots of fun potential here. My main issue has been that most of the games thus far have been experiences rather than full fledge games, but this is not something I blame the devs for since more needs to be done to mainstream the hardware and ultimately create a viable installbase for bigger projects. I appreciate the companies, such Bethesda, that are bringing ports of larger projects over. However, I am most thankful to Sony, who have created Astrobot, which is a brand new game and looks to be what I wanted from a VR platformer game.

How does the Oculus Go replace something Samsung gives away for free with their smartphones, and requires a smartphone to use?

The easiest way to make a wireless headset is to make it self contained? Why? How is developing a processing solution capable of playing and rendering entire games + VR video output + location and motion tracking easier than developing a processing solution that at most has to manage the location and motion tracking and can offload the rest to a games console/PC?


What makes you think A VR headset will cost significantly less than it will 10 years from now? For example. Game controllers: A PS controller when it was released in 1994 was about $19.99, maybe $29.99. I can't remember. Now controllers have evolved, they've gotten more complicated, they're far more advanced, have far more features, and now a basic PS4 controller is $59.99-$64.99 By your logic, they should cost about $5 today, shouldn't they?

Good to know Borderlands has full movement.

I tried teleportation in The Solus project which simply skips certain puzzles when in teleportation mode yet makes certain traversal a lot easier, too easy. Luckily if you use a DS4 next to move you can sprint and smoothly turn, way better than teleportation. Doom VFR, only used it for the jump into body frag gimmick or when you need to go up a 2 inch ledge lol. I also tried it in Skyrim as the Werewolf quest line is still bugged (never fixed) and the only way to get through the gate was to glitch teleport through it.

I can't remember a good use of teleportation, just being frustrated not being able to move how I want, so I started avoiding games that don't offer full motion and preferably smooth rotation as well. I find teleportation and step wise rotation more sickening than simply letting me run around with the DS4 like in RE7. The jarring jumps are tiring, blinders while turning make me feel claustrophobic, all these so called comfort options do exactly the opposite for me. Most comfortable to me is fast rotation, forward is always forward (not auto move in the direction you are looking), strafing and no tunnel vision / blinders while turning. You know, exactly the way we've been playing first person games for the past 20 years :)

After 2 years I still enjoyed RE7's control scheme the best. Simple, move with the analog stick, shoot where you are looking. In Skyrim I did settle on dual move with unfortunately snap turn (set to quick and small increments to tap tap tap tap turn simulating sort of fast rotation). Using both hands independently is far superior in Skyrim, however sprinting was messed up with move. When you sprint it starts strafing in the direction you are looking and slows down when you try to look to the side, messed up.

What PSVR needs is the Switch controllers.

Would love to see Amnesia for VR. It would be a perfect fit.

Current state of the technology doesn't have my interest as entertainment devices at all.

I'd purely want it for professional creation puposes. Great programs are being developed for drawing, sculpting, and animating in 3D these years, and VR adds so much more value to those than it does to games, in my opinion.

Yea, the Touch controllers are already very good, I just think that a system to keep them in your palms without needing to grip them at all (like the planned "Valva Knuckle" controllers seem to get) would be another great update to them and further extend the range of gameplay/immersion they can provide. Hopefully Sony can combine all that into their next gen motion controllers for VR.

So a low cost option that doesn't require a phone is a replacement for a free option that requires a device that you had to buy to get the device for free? That does not compute.The smartphone ownership requirement isn't exactly a barrier for a prospective VR user.

I can't even comprehend how you think the biggest challenge of having a PC as your VR processor is data transfer. Perhaps you should checkout what something like a Displayport protocol is capable of handling. Remember the headset only needs to send location/tracking data to the PC and the PC only needs to send a video signal back to the headset. Bandwidth isn't an issue. Who said anything about it needing to be wireless? That's just needless expense.

What? How are they different markets? Stop acting like Sony has no competition. Microsoft and Nintendo would like a word. In fact there's just as many major competitors in the home console space (3) as there is in the VR space (3).  Furthermore. No competition for controllers? Everyone gets the same controller? Is that why $200 SCUF PS4 controllers exist? Is that why $30 licensed wired third party controllers exist? Is that why there's about a dozen different third party controller manufacturers exist that make PS4 controllers? Is that why you can buy arcade sticks, and wired controllers, and controllers without touchpads? Because "everyone gets the same controller"? That's actually not the case at all. Sony offers a "standard controller" and other companies offer everything else above and below that, kinda like how Sony offers PSVR and others companies offer everything else above and below that. It's a lot more similar than you're giving it credit for.

Let's try a different example then.

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Launch_price


How come the prices of these video game consoles are going up instead of down? How come the cheapest video game console I could purchase on release in 1985 was $199 but the cheapest video game console I could purchase on release in 2017 was $299? I mean sure, 10 years after Nintendo released the NES, Sony did release the PS1 which was more than capable of everything the NES was capable of, but it didn't cost $50, did it? What makes you think that in 10 years VR Headset manufacturers are going to be content with releasing units that are competitive with 10 year old VR headsets for as little as possible? What makes you think there's going to be a market for that any more than there's a market for those cheap @games handhelds that play old built in genesis games?

https://www.unlockunit.com/blog/samsung-gear-vr-compatible-phones/

Looks to me there are dozens of different models that Gear VRs are compatibile with, and again, most importantly, the Gear VR Samsung smartphone purchasers were given with their phones were free were compatible with the phones they just bought.

So you decided to move the goalpost and focus on wireless VR. That's a non-starter. There's an even more niche market for Wireless VR devices than there are for VR devices.

I never said that VR is three companies competing with each other. I said there are three main competitors. Sony, HTC, and Oculus make up the vast majoriity of VR headset purchases. Let's not pick nits.

You're comparing old hardware to old hardware when you say (paraphrasing) "In 10 years time, they can probably make a better VR headset for $50". It sounds to me like you're talking about the technology and pricing of 10 years from now, not today. There might be tons of other cheaper ways to emulate PS1 games, but that doesn't mean that 10 years from now the latest and greatest technology of that era is going to be cheaper to be than the latest and greatest technology of this one. There's no reason to expect the Oculus Rift 3 of 2028 is going to cost less than $200 on release, for example. If the prices aren't going down, then the devices aren't getting cheaper, are they?



If there are already headsets that cost $150 and beat the Vive, then VR has even less of an excuse for why it is not succeeding, and it means the VR industry as a whole is in much more dire shape than even I imagined.